All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...