Latest Virginia Headlines
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Fire Destroys Virginia Tech Research Building, Estimated Damage up to $1.3M
Feb 15 2017 // Officials say a fire destroyed a research building at Virginia Tech. Media outlets report it happened at the Prices Fork Research Station on Sunday night. Bob Schubert, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies’...
Rolling Stone Defamation Case Over Rape Story Back in Virginia Court
Feb 14 2017 // Attorneys for Rolling Stone magazine are heading back to federal court to try to overturn a jury’s defamation verdict over its botched story “A Rape on Campus.” A judge is holding a hearing in Roanoke,...
Coal Truck Driver Dies on Delivery in West Virginia
Feb 14 2017 // West Virginia mine safety authorities say a 54-year-old coal truck driver has died from injuries he suffered last week in Logan County. The Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says the loaded truck driven...
DuPont to Pay $670M Over Teflon-Making Chemical Leak in West Virginia
Feb 13 2017 // DuPont said on Monday it agreed to pay $670.7 million in cash to settle several lawsuits related to a chemical leak from a plant in West Virginia. The company said it settled about 3,550 personal injury claims arising from...
Goodyear to Pay $1.75M After Four Deaths at Virginia Factory
Feb 13 2017 // Goodyear will pay $1.75 million to settle workplace health and safety violations at its Danville, Va., tire plant where four workers died on the job over the course of a year, officials announced Friday. Goodyear, the...
West Virginia Town Sues Drug Distributors Over Costs of Opioid Abuse
Feb 2 2017 // A West Virginia town seeking to recoup the costs of dealing with opioid abuse is suing out-of-state drug distributors, and another community plans to file a similar suit. Media outlets report the Mingo County community of...
House Panel in Virginia Approves Bills Targeting Opioid Crisis
Feb 1 2017 // A House committee has approved seven bills aimed at fighting the opioid crisis in Virginia. The legislation would limit the prescription of medications containing opioids, establish guidelines for the use of opioids to...
American Water Files Settlement Over Role in 2014 West Virginia Water Crisis
Jan 27 2017 // A proposed settlement was filed Wednesday in the state investigation of West Virginia American Water’s role in a chemical spill and resulting water crisis in the Charleston area three years ago. Thousands of gallons...
Report: Drug Wholesalers Fueled West Virginia’s Opioid Epidemic
Jan 23 2017 // 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...
Court Upholds Blankenship Conviction Over Fatal West Virginia Mine Blast
Jan 20 2017 // A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected former Massey Energy Co Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship’s bid to overturn his conviction and one-year prison sentence related to his role in a 2010 West...
Trial Set to Begin in West Virginia Over Subaru Car Fire Deaths
Jan 20 2017 // Nearly eight years after a car wreck claimed the lives of a mother and two teens in Cabell County, a trial is set to begin in a lawsuit against Subaru. The trial is slated for Jan. 23 in Kanawha County, according to the...
Report: Coal Ash Stored at Virginia Power Plant Vulnerable to Risks
Jan 17 2017 // Millions of tons of ash stored at a former coal-fired power plant in the city will become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and other coastal risks, according to a report compiled for an environmental group that is...
Ames & Gough Appoints Lynch as Senior Broker in Virginia Office
Jan 11 2017 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations and nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed Brian C....
West Virginia Beef-Jerky Maker Sued for Firing Worker Who Tried to Report Accident
Jan 10 2017 // The owner of a now-closed beef-jerky maker in West Virginia is being sued by the federal government for firing an employee who tried to call 911 to help a co-worker with a severed thumb. John M. Bachman, who owned the Lone...
Icy Cold Creates Problems Across the South
Jan 9 2017 // Snow and sleet pounded a large swath of the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, coating roads with ice and causing hundreds of crashes. Thousands of people lost power and forecasters warned of blizzard-like conditions from...
Slick Roads Cause Hundreds of Crashes in Virginia, One Fatal
Jan 9 2017 // Virginia State Police say slick roads have caused hundreds of crashes across the state, including one fatal crash. State Police Spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in an email that state police responded to more than 500...
Jim Justice Businesses Request Dismissal of West Virginia Flood Cleanup Suit
Jan 9 2017 // Jim Justice’s businesses have responded to a lawsuit claiming the West Virginia governor-elect’s companies have not paid for $771,268 worth of flood cleanup work after the Greenbrier resort was hit by severe...
West Virginia Reaches Largest Settlement to Date with Individual Drug Wholesaler
Jan 5 2017 // West Virginia officials have reached a $3.5 million settlement with a wholesaler accused of flooding the state with millions of prescription pain pills. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced the settlement Tuesday...
Homes on West Virginia’s Wheeling Island Damaged by Fire
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...
West Virginia Settles Opioid Lawsuits Against 2 More Drug Distributors
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...
