All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2017 // Hank sat impassively on a Virginia Tech athletic field, ready to take it on the chin for the future of drone commerce.About 30 yards away, an eight-rotor unmanned copter hovered, buzzing like a swarm of bees. The 21-pound...
Mar 14 2017 // Warnings have been posted in much of West Virginia for up to a foot of snow from a late-season storm. The National Weather Service said snow was expected to start Monday night and last in some places through early...
Mar 13 2017 // Virginia prosecutors say six people have been arrested for their alleged roles in an insurance fraud scheme that involved setting 30 fires.Federal prosecutors say the defendants over the course of 16 years set fire to...
Mar 13 2017 // West Virginia’s attorney general has reached a court settlement with a Cabell County used car dealer requiring he stand behind warranties, post unaltered buyer’s guides and ensure each vehicle sold will pass...
Mar 13 2017 // Eight northern West Virginia residents have been indicted on charges that they staged vehicle accidents in order to file false insurance claims. Prosecutors say the eight were indicted Tuesday on mail fraud charges in...
Mar 6 2017 // The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will spend $500,000 on a program that aims to curb prescription drug and heroin abuse across the state. DEA special Agent Karl Colder tells the Charleston Gazette-Mail the project,...
Mar 3 2017 // Authorities are investigating a miner’s death in McDowell County, W. Va., at an operation owned by Gov. Jim Justice.Patrick Graham, vice president for Southern Coal Corp., says a worker at its Bishop Preparation...
Mar 2 2017 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who was elected this past November, has appointed BB&T Insurance Agency Manager Allan L. McVey to serve as West Virginia’s Insurance Commissioner, effective April 1.McVey has been...
Mar 1 2017 // A federal appeals court has refused to rehear the case of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the order Friday. In...
Feb 24 2017 // A man who spent more than three decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit could be getting $1.55 million from the state of Virginia.The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that a bill to provide compensation to...
Feb 21 2017 // Markel Corporation, a financial holding company headquartered in Richmond, Va., has named Ashley Dillon underwriting assurance director on the product line leadership team.Dillon is located in Markel’s headquarters...
Feb 21 2017 // A bill that seeks to protect Virginians from losing their income tax refunds to identity thieves won final approval Wednesday in the General Assembly.The bill’s sponsor, Del. Mark Keam, D-Vienna, said thieves can...
Feb 17 2017 // A southern West Virginia town has joined other communities in seeking to recoup the costs of dealing with opioid abuse.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the McDowell County town of Welch filed a lawsuit Monday against...
Feb 15 2017 // Officials say a fire destroyed a research building at Virginia Tech.Media outlets report it happened at the Prices Fork Research Station on Sunday night. Bob Schubert, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies’...
Feb 14 2017 // Attorneys for Rolling Stone magazine are heading back to federal court to try to overturn a jury’s defamation verdict over its botched story “A Rape on Campus.”A judge is holding a hearing in Roanoke,...
Feb 14 2017 // West Virginia mine safety authorities say a 54-year-old coal truck driver has died from injuries he suffered last week in Logan County. The Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says the loaded truck driven...
Feb 13 2017 // DuPont said on Monday it agreed to pay $670.7 million in cash to settle several lawsuits related to a chemical leak from a plant in West Virginia.The company said it settled about 3,550 personal injury claims arising from...
Feb 13 2017 // Goodyear will pay $1.75 million to settle workplace health and safety violations at its Danville, Va., tire plant where four workers died on the job over the course of a year, officials announced Friday.Goodyear, the...
Feb 2 2017 // A West Virginia town seeking to recoup the costs of dealing with opioid abuse is suing out-of-state drug distributors, and another community plans to file a similar suit.Media outlets report the Mingo County community of...
Feb 1 2017 // A House committee has approved seven bills aimed at fighting the opioid crisis in Virginia. The legislation would limit the prescription of medications containing opioids, establish guidelines for the use of opioids to...