All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 17 2020 // Virginia officials on Wednesday passed temporary new workplace safety rules designed to protect employees from the coronavirus, becoming the first state to adopt such measures.The Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board...
Jul 17 2020 // Environmental groups have sued the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection over what they say is the agency’s failure to adhere to federal reporting requirements for a coal mine reclamation fund.The...
Jul 15 2020 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice moved Monday to close bars in the state’s largest college town and reimpose restrictions on large gatherings as coronavirus cases rise to record levels.Justice, a Republican, ordered...
Jul 15 2020 // Three workers have been injured at a West Virginia chemical plant, officials said. The incident happened Sunday evening at the Westlake Chemical plant, which produces chlorine, news outlets reported. Details of what...
Jul 9 2020 // CBIZ Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Prince-Wood Insurance L.L.C. (PWI) of Woodbridge, Va., effective July 1, 2020.Established in 1967, PWI provides property and casualty insurance to small and...
Jul 6 2020 // West Virginia has received a $550,000 payment from a German firm related to a car emissions-rigging scandal, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced last month.Morrisey announced the payment from auto parts and...
Jun 30 2020 // An engineer error caused a CSX freight train to derail as it crossed the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, sending two cars into the water and damaging a footbridge that is part of the Appalachian Trail,...
Jun 23 2020 // A mayor in West Virginia is accused of taking federal flood relief funds intended for her city and paying herself extra money for working with a flood recovery team.Richwood Mayor Chris Drennen was indicted on federal...
Jun 19 2020 // One worker died and another was injured when a structure at an old West Virginia power plant collapsed while being prepped for demolition, officials said.Mason County dispatchers told news outlets that workers were...
Jun 18 2020 // A federal appeals court has vacated part of a finding that cleared five West Virginia police officers on qualified immunity grounds in an excessive force lawsuit, which was filed by the estate of a homeless black man shot...
Jun 17 2020 // Gov. Jim Justice has declared an emergency in a southern West Virginia county from severe flooding. Thunderstorms caused floodwaters to rise in Fayette County on Sunday night, prompting Justice to issue the emergency...
Jun 16 2020 // A coronavirus outbreak at a West Virginia church has caused at least 17 virus cases, prompting the governor to call in the National Guard for decontamination work, state officials said Saturday.The Greenbrier County church...
Jun 8 2020 // Rite-Aid and Walgreens failed to monitor and report suspicious orders of prescription painkillers in West Virginia while inundating their retail pharmacies with tens of millions of pills, according to a state lawsuit.The...
Jun 8 2020 // Worldwide Facilities LLC, a national wholesale insurance broker, managing general agent and program underwriter, has acquired Royal Oak Underwriters Inc., an excess and surplus lines insurance wholesaler based in Richmond,...
May 29 2020 // Another former cadet has filed a lawsuit against Virginia Tech over being suspended in connection with a blood-pinning ceremony.The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court alleges the university violated the due process...
May 27 2020 // 05/27/2020 02:53 PM (Reuters) – Bertha, the second named storm this Atlantic hurricane season, has weakened to a tropical depression but was still expected to bring heavy rain and possibly life-threatening flash...
May 20 2020 // Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to require two other states to implement plans to cut pollution in the Chesapeake Bay,...
May 20 2020 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Monday expanded his plan to lift coronavirus restrictions while acknowledging that cases will likely rise as the economy reopens.The Republican governor has added indoor malls to the...
May 12 2020 // The West Virginia National Guard will assist in conducting tests for the coronavirus starting Monday at a poultry processing plant in a small county where cases have increased, authorities said.Testing at the...
Apr 28 2020 // A federal judge in Kentucky has ordered companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to pay more than $1 million in fees and expenses in a lawsuit that accused them of defaulting on a mining contract.U.S. District...