All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Dec 14 2016 // A fire official says the investigation into a marina fire in Henrico County that destroyed around a dozen boats will take days or weeks to complete.Henrico fire Capt. Taylor Goodman tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch it is...
Dec 7 2016 // Rolling Stone magazine urged a federal judge on Monday to overturn the verdict of a jury, which found that the publication and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator with their botched story about a gang...
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
Dec 2 2016 // Virginia suffered only a glancing blow from Hurricane Matthew last month when unprecedented amounts of rain fell, but on Wednesday officials estimated flood damage to be hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the...
Nov 28 2016 // When floodwaters poured into Holly Furlong’s Virginia Beach home in October, she ripped out electrical cords and rushed her four children upstairs. They spent the next two days without power, building blanket forts...
Nov 28 2016 // Vocational students from across West Virginia are building tiny houses to help some people struggling to recover from flooding this year.Students from 12 vocational schools are designing and building the houses, which will...
Nov 28 2016 // Authorities say crews have established a control line around a wildfire that’s burned thousands of acres in central Virginia’s George Washington and Thomas Jefferson national forests. The U.S. Forest Service...
Nov 21 2016 // The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office says it has reached settlements with three more prescription drug wholesalers for $800,000 resolving allegations they failed to detect, report and stop suspiciously large...
Nov 18 2016 // West Virginia’s environmental regulator sued Alpha Natural Resources Inc’s former management on allegations of fraud on Wednesday, saying top executives should be held accountable for an unusual $100 million...
Nov 18 2016 // Virginia is one of several southern states battling forest fires caused by humans and fueled by drought.Ed Stoots of Virginia’s Forestry Department said Wednesday that crews have fought up to 20 blazes in more than a...
Nov 18 2016 // A former elementary school assistant principal in Richmond has accused the school’s principal of sexual harassment in a $5.3 million federal lawsuit.Local news organizations report that Fernando Lightfoot filed the...
Nov 18 2016 // Among the many crops grown on Glenn Rodes’ family farm in Rockingham County, this summer was one that has not been cultivated in Virginia for decades but that may have a chance at a comeback now, thanks to a slow...
Nov 15 2016 // Norfolk officials are urging residents to take notice of proposed changes to federal flood insurance rate maps in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.The Virginian-Pilot reports that the rate maps would require some landowners...
Nov 8 2016 // Federal authorities say they’ve arrested former prison guards connected to a gang that sells drugs inside Virginia state prisons to help finance its activities.An indictment unsealed Friday alleges a wide-ranging...
Nov 7 2016 // After a $151 million settlement was reached in a West Virginia chemical spill that tainted a local water system, the real wait begins for residents and businesses hoping to cash in on the claims process.And for whoever is...
Nov 7 2016 // Federal records show a drug company shipped 241 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia over a five-year period.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Cardinal Health’s shipment figures were disclosed...