All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 27 2017 // A proposed settlement was filed Wednesday in the state investigation of West Virginia American Water’s role in a chemical spill and resulting water crisis in the Charleston area three years ago.Thousands of gallons...
Jan 23 2017 // Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, according to an investigation by the...
Jan 20 2017 // A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected former Massey Energy Co Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship’s bid to overturn his conviction and one-year prison sentence related to his role in a 2010 West...
Jan 20 2017 // Nearly eight years after a car wreck claimed the lives of a mother and two teens in Cabell County, a trial is set to begin in a lawsuit against Subaru.The trial is slated for Jan. 23 in Kanawha County, according to the...
Jan 17 2017 // Millions of tons of ash stored at a former coal-fired power plant in the city will become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and other coastal risks, according to a report compiled for an environmental group that is...
Jan 11 2017 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations and nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed Brian C....
Jan 10 2017 // The owner of a now-closed beef-jerky maker in West Virginia is being sued by the federal government for firing an employee who tried to call 911 to help a co-worker with a severed thumb.John M. Bachman, who owned the Lone...
Jan 9 2017 // Snow and sleet pounded a large swath of the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, coating roads with ice and causing hundreds of crashes. Thousands of people lost power and forecasters warned of blizzard-like conditions from...
Jan 9 2017 // Virginia State Police say slick roads have caused hundreds of crashes across the state, including one fatal crash.State Police Spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in an email that state police responded to more than 500...
Jan 9 2017 // Jim Justice’s businesses have responded to a lawsuit claiming the West Virginia governor-elect’s companies have not paid for $771,268 worth of flood cleanup work after the Greenbrier resort was hit by severe...
Jan 5 2017 // West Virginia officials have reached a $3.5 million settlement with a wholesaler accused of flooding the state with millions of prescription pain pills.Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced the settlement Tuesday...
Jan 4 2017 // Authorities are searching for the cause of a fire that tore through a row of houses on Wheeling Island, W. Va.Wheeling Fire Department spokesman Philip Stahl tells media outlets no one was injured in the fire that was...
Dec 29 2016 // Two major prescription drug distributors have agreed to settle a West Virginia lawsuit alleging they fueled West Virginia’s opioid epidemic with excessively large shipments of painkillers into the state over several...
Dec 28 2016 // Virginia’s medical payments per workers’ compensation claim with more than seven days of lost time increased 26 percent for claims that occurred between 2009 and 2014, according to a recent study by the Workers...
Dec 28 2016 // Drug overdose deaths, including opioid overdose deaths, continue to increase in the United States, according to new data from the federal government.The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease...
Dec 27 2016 // Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, according to an investigation by the...
Dec 21 2016 // New data show many more coal miners across Appalachia suffering from the most serious form of black lung disease than federal regulators previously reported.National Public Radio reported Friday that its investigation...
Dec 19 2016 // West Virginia’s attorney general has sued a pharmacy in Boone County, alleging it provided too many highly addictive painkillers over more than a decade.Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says Larry’s Drive-In...
Dec 19 2016 // West Virginia Gov.-elect Jim Justice’s businesses are being sued by a flood restoration company for unpaid bills, after cleanup crews restored parts of the Greenbrier following flooding that hit parts of the state in...
Dec 19 2016 // During their annual convention in March, more than 50 members of NetVU (the Network of Vertafore Users) devoted a day to serving at the San Antonio Food Bank. Volunteers sorted 12,000 pounds of food, enough for 10,000...