All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 26 2019 // A jury says a now defunct West Virginia bar and the company that owned the land under the bar are mostly responsibly in a drunken driving death. The Journal of Martinsburg reported Tuesday that Dirty Dawg Saloon LLC was...
Jul 23 2019 // The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that left miles of a river...
Jul 22 2019 // An Ohio drug wholesale distributor and two former executives on Thursday were charged with profiting from the U.S. opioid epidemic by selling millions of pills despite signs the addictive drugs were being misused.Federal...
Jul 9 2019 // Virginia will receive $1.8 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for electrical distribution repairs as a result of damages caused by Tropical Storm Michael. The grant will be used to reimburse communities...
Jul 3 2019 // A lawsuit says a former West Virginia University student has permanent brain damage because his fraternity brothers didn’t help him after he fell down the stairs at a party, instead ridiculing his unconscious body...
Jul 1 2019 // Paquin Insurance Agency, OceanPoint Insurance AgencyPaquin Insurance Agency has joined OceanPoint Insurance Agency’s organization in Rhode Island. Paquin Agency Principal Rick Paquin has accepted a position as vice...
Jun 28 2019 // West Virginia patients and caregivers waiting for the state’s medical cannabis program to officially start in July shouldn’t expect their program cards or physicians certificates anytime soon.The Dominion Post...
Jun 27 2019 // The National Weather Service says storm-related damage indicates that a rare tornado touched down in West Virginia.The weather service tweeted that a tornado hit the Alum Creek area Monday night along U.S. Route 119...
Jun 26 2019 // A hotel’s insurance company has sued a high school student it claims caused more than $690,000 in damage by activating a sprinkler inside one of its rooms.The Virginian-Pilot reports Landstown High School senior Cade...
Jun 25 2019 // WELCH, West Virginia —The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy drug makers, feckless doctors and lax regulators. But there’s another group that has...
Jun 25 2019 // Experts say that southeastern Virginia could suffer $40 billion in losses if it’s struck by a major hurricane.Professors from Old Dominion University said in a recent report that the damages could seriously puncture...
Jun 24 2019 // Virginia officials say a party bus was operating without proper permits when a woman fell out of it last year and died.The Virginian-Pilot reports that the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says the bus that Kisha...
Jun 21 2019 // Walmart Inc. agreed to pay $282 million in penalties and a Brazilian unit admitted to violating a U.S. anti-bribery law, providing a relatively subdued ending to a seven-year investigation that spanned the globe and at one...
Jun 14 2019 // A postal worker on disability retirement for psychological issues returned to her workplace years later and killed six people. A Connecticut beer delivery worker irate over being forced to resign opened fire as he was...
Jun 12 2019 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has agreed to pay a $1.23 million court-ordered sanction against one of his family’s companies.Justice’s lawyers and federal prosecutors said in a joint court filing Thursday that...
Jun 7 2019 // The head of the national coal miners’ union on Thursday urged the Trump administration to impose regulation on silica dust in mines, which researchers believe is responsible for a resurgence of black lung disease in...
Jun 5 2019 // Several West Virginia coal mines, including some owned by the governor’s family, have released many times the allowable amounts of pollutants into nearby waterways in recent years without being penalized by...
May 29 2019 // West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese failed to publicly disclose decade-old allegations of sexual abuse of a student involving a Catholic school teacher, the state’s attorney general said May 21.Attorney...
May 28 2019 // West Virginia is set to get $106 million in federal disaster relief money. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday said the state would be getting the funds as part of a federal grant. The West Virginia Democrat says the money...
May 28 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. said it plans to cut overall personal auto rates in West Virginia by 5.5%. The expected total statewide impact for State Farm Mutual by this rate decrease in West Virginia will be...