Latest Virginia Headlines
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OSHA Investigates Virginia School After Lead Found
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...
West Virginia Firm Develops ‘Guardian Angel’ for Miners
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...
Virginia Court Grants Rehearing of Global Warming Claims Case
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...
West Virginia Candidate Maloney Denies Profit Over Safety Charge
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...
Coal Mines Becoming Safer But Some Still ‘Don’t Get It,’ Says U.S. Regulator
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...
WCRI: Virginia’s Medical Cost Per Workers’ Comp Claim Higher Than Most
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...
West Virginia Mutual Names Wallace President, CEO
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...
Deadline Feb. 2 for Quake-Related Jobless Benefits in Virginia
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...
Virginia High Schools Join in Safe-Driving Campaign
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...
Safety Groups Say Teen Traffic Deaths Rising in Virginia
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...
Virginia, New Jersey Get High Marks in Building Code Report
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...
Virginia Mom of Boy Left on Bus Sues School Officials for $500K
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...
Virginia Man Accused of Faking Death to Get Insurance
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 ....
More Than $25.2M in Virginia Quake Aid OK’d
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...
West Virginia Lawmakers’ Personal Tragedies Spur Mine Safety Bill
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...
Virginia Gets $19M in Federal Funding to Fix Storm-Damaged Roads
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...
Report Calls for More Fire Safety Education in West Virginia
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...
Drunk Driving Arrests Increased in West Virginia in 2011
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...
Digital Insurance Buys Va.-based Strategic Employee Benefits Services
Jan 11 2012 // Digital Insurance, an employee benefits agency in Atlanta, acquired Strategic Employee Benefits Services (SEBS) of Virginia. SEBS, which has offices in Richmond, Charlottesville and Roanoke, will now operate under the...
Settlements Reported in West Virginia Mine Blast That Killed 29
Jan 11 2012 // Coal company Alpha Natural Resources has reached settlements with all the families of the miners killed in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four decades, a lawyer for two of the families said on Wednesday. Mark Moreland...
