All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 9 2012 // West Virginia must hold coal operators accountable for any negligence or misconduct to prevent another Upper Big Branch, the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in four decades, the state’s special investigator of that...
Feb 8 2012 // Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has declared an agriculture flood disaster in Jackson County stemming from heavy rains in late November. The declaration, made on Tuesday, means the state Department of Agriculture can apply for...
Feb 7 2012 // Federal safety regulators are investigating a Roanoke school following the detection of lead in some paint chips.Roanoke City Public Schools deputy superintendent Curt Baker tells media outlets that the amount of lead...
Feb 7 2012 // A West Virginia company is working on a piece of equipment designed to keep miners safer.Trinity Resources, headquartered in Putnam County, demonstrated its a mobile mine safety chamber this week at the West Virginia...
Feb 3 2012 // The Virginia Supreme Court has recently granted rehearing of a closely followed legal case involving global warming, The AES Corp. vs. Steadfast Insurance Company. The court says its previous decision on the case has been...
Feb 3 2012 // West Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney said Democrats’ accusations that he values profits over safety are untrue.The founder of North American Drillers was among those who helped rescue 33...
Feb 3 2012 // Coal operators across the country are changing the way they work, and mines are becoming safer, but the head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said Thursday there are still too many who...
Feb 2 2012 // Broad metrics of worker’ compensation costs show that Virginia is a lower cost state, largely due to a lower frequency of claims, according to a new report.But the report from the Workers Compensation Research...
Feb 2 2012 // Physician insurer West Virginia Mutual Insurance Co. is under new leadership after naming R. Austin Wallace to serve as president and chief financial officer.Wallace served on the Charleston-based insurer’s board of...
Feb 1 2012 // People in five counties and the city of Fredericksburg who lost jobs as the result of a powerful Aug. 23 earthquake face a deadline this week.The Thursday deadline is to file for disaster unemployment assistance. Besides...
Feb 1 2012 // Nearly three dozen Virginia high schools are participating in a safe driving campaign starting this week.The Virginia State Police is teaming up with Youth of Virginia Speak Out About Traffic Safety to increase awareness...
Jan 27 2012 // Safety groups are urging teenage drivers in Virginia to wear seat belts and slow down following a sharp increase in fatal wrecks. Preliminary statistics show that traffic accidents killed 11 people ages 16 to 20 between...
Jan 23 2012 // The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, an industry group, issued a new report this month that analyzes residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico and the...
Jan 20 2012 // Richmond school officials are being sued by the mother of a 4-year-old autistic boy who was left on a bus.Nyheim Butler’s lawsuit accuses Richmond Public Schools, the district’s transportation director, a...
Jan 18 2012 // A Virginia man has been charged with faking his death to collect on a $750,000 life insurance policy. A federal grand jury indicted 38-year-old Jamie Dwayne Long of Lunenberg on three mail fraud counts last week. U.S ....
Jan 18 2012 // More than $25.2 million in federal disaster aid has been approved to help residents, businesses and local governments in Virginia recover from last summer’s earthquake.The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the...
Jan 18 2012 // For two West Virginia lawmakers who lost fathers in coal mining accidents, preventing disasters like the 2010 Upper Big Branch explosion has taken a personal turn with Monday’s introduction of a bipartisan safety...
Jan 13 2012 // Virginia is getting more than $19 million in federal funding to repair roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the funding from the Federal...
Jan 12 2012 // West Virginia suffers from one of the nation’s worst fire-related death rates. That has officials calling for greater public education efforts.But the state Fire Commission has become too short-staffed to provide...
Jan 12 2012 // The director of the West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program says arrests for driving under the influence increased in the past year, contradicting earlier reports.The Charleston Gazette reported that Highway...