All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2014 // West Virginia University last week suspended activities at its fraternities and sororities after a freshman suffered a “catastrophic medical emergency” at a frat house.Nolan Burch, 18, from Buffalo, New York,...
Nov 17 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has ordered the restoration of monetary damages to Huntington homeowners hit by flooding in 2011.The high court ruled in an appeal brought by five plaintiffs along Krouts Creek, The...
Nov 14 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of The Titan Group, LLC located in Richmond, Virginia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2001, Titan provides human resource consulting...
Nov 12 2014 // November is the peak month for collisions between vehicles and deer. With this in mind, Virginia’s State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) Bureau of Insurance reminds Virginia motorists to be careful, especially...
Nov 4 2014 // The Hilb Group, LLC said it has acquired Lake Norman Benefits of Charlotte, North Carolina.Terms were not disclosed on the transaction that closed on Nov. 1. LNB will continue to operate at its current location under...
Nov 2 2014 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has again ruled that the state Regional Jail Authority cannot be held liable in a lawsuit that alleged a male correctional officer repeatedly raped a female inmate.The Charleston Gazette...
Oct 31 2014 // A spacecraft for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Ltd. tourism operator crashed during a test flight in California’s Mojave Desert, killing the co-pilot and injuring the pilot.The pilot ejected and suffered...
Oct 22 2014 // In the last two years, more than 550 West Virginia coal miners have temporarily lost their mining certifications because they failed a drug test.State Office of Miner’s Health, Safety and Training Eugene White...
Oct 22 2014 // Roger Comer Workers’ compensation insurer The MEMIC Group has hired Roger Comer as senior production underwriter to serve its agents in Northern Virginia and Maryland. Comer is based in The MEMIC Group’s Tysons...
Oct 8 2014 // A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that nearly 4,000 homeowners who say Chinese drywall ruined their homes are eligible to share any further damages he may award in lawsuits against Taishan Gypsum Co. Ltd., a...
Oct 8 2014 // A January hearing is set on a proposed settlement of hundreds of lawsuits against Mountain State University.Media outlets reported that a three-judge mass litigation panel gave preliminary approval to the settlement Monday...
Oct 3 2014 // State environmental officials had tallied more than 46,400 aboveground storage tanks as Wednesday’s deadline to register them approached.Despite the deadline, the Department of Environmental Protection expects to...
Oct 1 2014 // Benwood, West Virginia Police Chief Frank Longwell is calling for changes to a state law regarding radar after his city lost state funding for speed enforcement.The law doesn’t allow police in Class IV...
Oct 1 2014 // Anthony Carrico has been appointed as West Virginia’s state fire marshal. The West Virginia Fire Commission selected Carrico to succeed Sterling Lewis Jr. Carrico has been serving as acting state fire marshal since...
Sep 22 2014 // Kyle Samuel Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Company, has named Kyle Samuel managing director for its Metro Washington, D.C., and Virginia offices. Samuel will lead business development, client service and...
Sep 19 2014 // Virginia emergency management officials have created a new tool to help coastal residents assess the risks of rising water in a storm surge.The Virginia Department of Emergency Management says the Geographic Information...
Sep 19 2014 // A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a $2.9 million settlement that would benefit 300,000 people whose water was contaminated in a January chemical spill.Judge Ronald Pearson filed the order this past Tuesday in U.S....
Sep 17 2014 // A lawsuit against a water company, chemical producer, airport and others over a January chemical spill won’t get a hearing for another year.The consolidated lawsuit that targets West Virginia American Water, Eastman...
Sep 15 2014 // Labor officials say workplace deaths dropped in Virginia and nationwide last year. According to a preliminary report released by the U.S. Department of Labor, Virginia saw workplace fatalities decline 15 percent to 126 in...
Sep 11 2014 // After decades of rising obesity rates among adults, the rate of increase is beginning to slow, but rates remain far too high and disparities persist, according to a new report.Adult obesity rates increased in six states...