All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
May 21 2019 // The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and Mountain Valley Pipeline have agreed the latter will pay $266,000 for environmental violations dating back to April 2018. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...
May 20 2019 // Speed limits have been reduced along a stretch of Interstate 77 in southern West Virginia where 12 motorists have died since 2016. The state Division of Highways lowered the speed limit last month along I-77 in Mercer...
May 15 2019 // West Virginia University researchers say fentanyl deaths are up 122% in the state.The college released the results of a study into the powerful synthetic opioid last month. Analysts looked at all drug-related deaths in...
May 14 2019 // A wrongful death lawsuit filed in connection with the drowning of a five-year-old Virginia boy in a septic tank has been settled with a $200,000 insurance payment to his parents and sister.The Roanoke Times reports the...
May 13 2019 // Authorities say an explosion at a Virginia gas station has left two people dead and four people injured.According to The Roanoke Times, Rockbridge County Fire and EMS Chief Nathan Ramsey said the remains of two people were...
May 9 2019 // The U.S. government sued nearly two dozen of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies Tuesday to get them to pay about $4.8 million in unpaid mine safety fines.The civil lawsuit was filed by federal...