All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2019 // Emergency officials in West Virginia say a charter bus carrying a high school girls basketball team has rolled over, leaving 16 injured.News outlets report the bus was carrying a team from Martinsburg High School when it...
Jan 31 2019 // Drug overdose deaths doubled in one West Virginia community last year.The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register reports figures released Jan. 22 by Wheeling police show officers responded to 13 overdose deaths last...
Jan 28 2019 // Manipulating a cellphone was a contributing factor in more than 800 crash deaths on U.S. roads during 2017 amid a marked increase in the percentage of drivers observed interacting with cellphones, new research by the...
Jan 25 2019 // Wilkinson Insurance Services Inc., an insurance premium audit services company based in Huntsville, Ala., is expanding to Virginia with its acquisition of Commercial Insurance Services of Virginia. The acquisition is...
Jan 23 2019 // A program that helps people rebuild homes that were damaged or destroyed in West Virginia’s 2016 flood is being affected by the partial federal government shutdown. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports a statement...
Jan 22 2019 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S) has opened a new Virginia Beach, Va., location led by Christopher Burns, senior vice president and National Marine Practice Group leader.In this role, Burns...
Jan 16 2019 // The Iroquois Group, an Allegany, N.Y.-headquartered network of independent insurance agencies, has hired Charles Venus as its vice president of Middle Market & Specialty. Venus is based in Northern Virginia. The former...
Jan 9 2019 // A West Virginia county saw a more than 40 percent drop in the number of non-fatal drug overdoses last year as compared to 2017.The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports just over 1,000 non-fatal overdoses were reported in...
Jan 7 2019 // 2019 CIWA Industry DaysJan 6-8 Hilton La Jolla Torrey PinesLa Jolla, CACIWAwww.ciwa.net2019 Big ‘I’ Winter MeetingJan 9-12 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the ArchSt. Louis, MOIndependent Insurance Agents &...
Dec 28 2018 // A class-action lawsuit that claims Chinese-manufactured drywall made American homeowners sick is revving up in Virginia.The Virginian-Pilot reported that about 175 people are suing Chinese companies in a federal court in...
Dec 27 2018 // A congressional report on prescription pill dumping in West Virginia blames U.S. prescription drug distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration for not doing enough to help mitigate the nation’s opioid...
Dec 21 2018 // One person has died and dozens of others were left homeless due to an apartment fire in West Virginia.Wheeling Police Department spokesman Philip Stahl told news outlets the blaze was reported Tuesday afternoon at North...
Dec 11 2018 // Residents walked instead of driving cars and children enjoyed another day of building snowmen with school canceled Monday after a wintry storm dropped snow, sleet or freezing rain across five southern states.Accidents on...
Dec 10 2018 // A massive storm brought snow, sleet, and freezing rain across a wide swath of the South on Sunday – causing dangerously icy roads, immobilizing snowfalls and power losses to hundreds of thousands of people.North...
Dec 6 2018 // The West Virginia University Board of Governors has settled a lawsuit over a student’s 2014 death at a fraternity house for $250,000.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the state Board of Risk and Insurance...
Dec 5 2018 // The family of a slain University of Virginia student has refiled a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, who was convicted of killing her.The Daily Progress reports Yeardley Love’s family filed...
Dec 3 2018 // A West Virginia man has been ordered to pay $7.6 million in damages to the family of a pedestrian who was killed in a hit-and-run accident.The Dominion Post reports the Monongalia County Circuit Court jury issued the...
Nov 30 2018 // A regulation in Virginia’s new building code could alter the look and feel of some neighborhoods near the state’s coast in the coming decades.The Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday that the change will impact...
Nov 30 2018 // A company building a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia has agreed to pay $122,350 for environmental violations.The Charleston Gazette-Mail cited a consent order made public Monday in reporting that Columbia Gas...
Nov 28 2018 // A fire official says operations have been suspended at a Macy’s distribution center in West Virginia after a fire broke out. No one was hurt.Hedgesville Volunteer Fire Capt. Brian Mulligan tells The Herald-Mail of...