All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 1 2017 // As auto accidents and fatalities increase on America’s roads, a dozen states have taken legislative action this year to further combat distracted driving.According to an analysis by the Property Casualty Insurers...
May 30 2017 // An explosion at a West Virginia industrial plant has killed two people and injured a third.Officials say the explosion was reported last week at Midland Resource Recovery, a company based in Ontario, Canada, that odorizes...
May 26 2017 // Gov. Jim Justice has directed the West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management to take steps to protect personally identifiable information collected and kept by state agencies, including health information...
May 19 2017 // West Virginia will receive an additional $3.2 million from the federal government for disaster recovery efforts for last year’s major floods. U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin announced the community...
May 18 2017 // A former coal executive who last week finished a yearlong prison sentence for conspiring to violate safety standards at a mine where a deadly blast occurred, has urged U.S. President Donald Trump to “get to the...
May 15 2017 // Validus Holdings Ltd. has completed its acquisition of Crop Risk Services business (CRS), a primary crop insurance managing general agent, from Archer Daniels Midland Co.In the deal that was announced in January, ADM...
May 15 2017 // West Virginia will receive $5.9 million from the federal government to help fight drug addiction.U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin announced the grant from the U.S. Department of Health...
May 12 2017 // Former coal executive Don Blankenship jumped back on Twitter on Wednesday, renewing his feud with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia on the day Blankenship was to finish a one-year prison sentence arising from the...
May 2 2017 // A new law in West Virginia aims to help parts of the state better prepare for major flooding.A new state resiliency office will receive funds, coordinate efforts and update plans annually against disasters like the...
May 1 2017 // The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S....
May 1 2017 // West Virginia will receive $5.9 million from the federal government to help fight drug addiction.U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin announced the grant Thursday from the U.S. Department...
Apr 28 2017 // A West Virginia mining operation owned by Gov. Jim Justice faces fines of more than $10,000 for six safety violations following a workers’ fatal fall in February. The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health,...
Apr 24 2017 // Ohio-based property/casualty insurer Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. and West Virginia-based workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. Inc., have been granted regulatory approvals to affiliate...
Apr 24 2017 // West Virginia will receive $5.9 million from the federal government to help fight drug addiction.U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin announced the grant Thursday from the U.S. Department...
Apr 20 2017 // The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S....
Apr 17 2017 // Rolling Stone magazine settled a University of Virginia administrator’s lawsuit over its discredited story about a rape on campus, but its legal fights over the botched article aren’t over.Attorneys for Rolling...
Apr 17 2017 // The number of reported overdose deaths that occurred last year in West Virginia has continued to rise.Citing data released March 22, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that at least 844 people died in the state of drug...
Apr 13 2017 // With more than 30,000 West Virginians already in drug treatment, lawmakers struggling with the state’s addiction crisis have voted to spend $24 million from recent court settlements with opioid distributors to...
Apr 11 2017 // In the months since Hurricane Matthew, Dawn Sawyer has watched her 9-year-old, Sam, bite his nails down to “nubs.”She’s never seen him do that before. As Sam remembers it, he slept right through the...
Apr 11 2017 // The National Weather Service says warm, dry conditions and gusty winds have increased the chances for wildfires in West Virginia.The weather service says in a news release Sunday that outdoor burning is considered...