Latest Virginia Headlines
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DuPont Worried About Publicity in West Virginia Zinc-Smelting Case
Nov 23 2010 // DuPont will likely seek to sequester jurors in a 2011 trial that could determine whether it must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to some 8,500 West Virginians who won a toxic-exposure case three years...
Safety Officials Warn 13 Mines in 7 States
Nov 22 2010 // Federal regulators late Friday warned 13 mining operations in seven states, including two owned by troubled Massey Energy Co., to show improvement on safety or face stricter enforcement. The Mine Safety and Health...
Work-Related Deaths Decline in West Virginia
Nov 19 2010 // Work-related deaths in West Virginia have fallen to their lowest level since 2002. Preliminary figures released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show 41 workers suffered fatal on-the-job injuries in 2009,...
Judges’ Mediation of Massey Pollution Case Fails in West Virginia
Nov 18 2010 // A lawyer for the plaintiffs says attempts to settle a long-running water pollution lawsuit against Massey Energy Co. have failed. Two judges on West Virginia’s mass litigation panel have been trying to mediate a...
Slurry Pollution Case Plaintiffs Called to West Virginia Meeting
Nov 15 2010 // Eighteen months ago, Christina Doyle packed up her two kids for an eight-hour journey to a West Virginia courthouse, hoping for some resolution to a lawsuit over water pollution she believes caused her daughter’s...
Virginia Firm Eyes High Tech Fix for Distracted Driving
Nov 14 2010 // Despite a public outcry over drivers who text, talk and e-mail that has prompted dozens of states to ban the practice, enforcing those laws is proving difficult. But Matthew Howard, co-founder and CEO of ZoomSafer, says...
Growth, Stability and Changes in Store for Long Term Care Market
Nov 14 2010 // With the first of 77 million baby boomers nearing retirement age in 2011, assisted living facilities and nursing home facilities will play a more important role than ever before. About three million Americans will require...
West Virginia Court Upholds Mine Safety Office Authority
Nov 3 2010 // The authority of West Virginia’s mine safety office to suspend coal miners has been upheld by the state Supreme Court. The decision stems from the death of locomotive driver Victor Goudy at Consol Energy’s...
Sensors Show Football Helmets Should Vary by Player’s Position
Nov 1 2010 // Dr. Gunnar Brolinson wonders if football helmets should be position-specific. Meaning a lineman’s helmet would be different than a defensive back’s helmet or one used by a quarterback. After all, the head...
Virginia Firm Eyes High Tech Fix for Distracted Driving
Oct 28 2010 // Despite a public outcry over drivers who text, talk and e-mail that has prompted dozens of states to ban the practice, enforcing those laws is proving difficult. But Matthew Howard, co-founder and CEO of ZoomSafer, has...
Virginia Tech Gets $825K to Research Home Construction Safety
Oct 27 2010 // Two Virginia Tech professors have been awarded an $825,000 federal research grant aimed at reducing falls on residential construction sites. The grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will...
Sensors Show Football Helmets Should Vary by Player’s Position
Oct 22 2010 // Dr. Gunnar Brolinson wonders if football helmets should be position-specific. Meaning a lineman’s helmet would be different than a defensive back’s helmet or one used by a quarterback. After all, the head...
West Virginia Fire Department Insurance Falls Short
Oct 18 2010 // Sissonville, West Virginia Volunteer Fire Department officials say they still need to raise about $450,000 to replace a fire station and three fire trucks destroyed in a blaze. Fire department secretary Tom Miller says a...
Fire Kills Nearly 40,000 Chickens Virginia
Oct 15 2010 // Nearly 40,000 young chickens are dead following an early morning fire at a poultry house in Rockingham County, Virginia. WHSV-TV reports that the fire was reported shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday at the poultry house on...
Massey Cited for Serious Violations at West Virginia Mine
Oct 13 2010 // A surprise inspection has turned up serious safety violations that could have caused an explosion at another Massey Energy Co. coal mine in West Virginia, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration announced last...
West Virginia Mom’s Suit Over Son’s Death Blames Bayer
Oct 7 2010 // The mother of a West Virginia State University student is suing Bayer CropScience and the school over her son’s death in 2008. Portia Gray’s lawsuit claims her 19-year-old son, Ra’Sean Gray, died as a...
West Virginia Fire Station Blaze Ruled an Accident
Oct 6 2010 // Investigators have ruled the blaze that destroyed the Sissonville (West Virginia) Volunteer Fire Department’s main station an accident. Paul Gill, from the state Fire Marshall’s Office, said the blaze started...
Minor Earthquake Hits Virginia
Oct 4 2010 // The U.S. Geological Survey says a minor earthquake has hit Virginia. Dale Grant, a geophysicist with the USGS, said the magnitude 3.0 earthquake happened at 4:17 p.m. Saturday. Its epicenter was about 20 miles north of...
Federal Regulators Taking New Steps to Identify Most Dangerous Mines
Sep 30 2010 // Federal regulators have implemented new measures for identifying the nation’s most dangerous mines, replacing what U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis had called a “badly broken” process. The Mine Health and...
Federal Court to Hear West Virginia Families’ Claims Against DuPont
Sep 29 2010 // A federal court will hear the complaints of 14 West Virginia families who blame illnesses ranging from cancer to rashes on long-term exposure to toxic waste piled up at a former DuPont zinc-smelting plant. Lead plaintiffs...
