Latest Virginia Headlines
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New DEA Program Targets West Virginia Opioid Traffickers
Mar 6 2017 // The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will spend $500,000 on a program that aims to curb prescription drug and heroin abuse across the state. DEA special Agent Karl Colder tells the Charleston Gazette-Mail the project,...
Death of West Virginia Miner Under Investigation
Mar 3 2017 // Authorities are investigating a miner’s death in McDowell County, W. Va., at an operation owned by Gov. Jim Justice. Patrick Graham, vice president for Southern Coal Corp., says a worker at its Bishop Preparation...
Insurance Agency Manager McVey Named West Virginia Insurance Commissioner
Mar 2 2017 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who was elected this past November, has appointed BB&T Insurance Agency Manager Allan L. McVey to serve as West Virginia’s Insurance Commissioner, effective April 1. McVey has been...
Federal Appeals Court Rejects Blankenship Appeal Over West Virginia Mine Blast
Mar 1 2017 // A federal appeals court has refused to rehear the case of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the order Friday. In...
Wrongfully Imprisoned Man Could Get $1.55M from Virginia
Feb 24 2017 // A man who spent more than three decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit could be getting $1.55 million from the state of Virginia. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that a bill to provide compensation to...
Markel Corporation Names Dillon Underwriting Assurance Director in Virginia
Feb 21 2017 // Markel Corporation, a financial holding company headquartered in Richmond, Va., has named Ashley Dillon underwriting assurance director on the product line leadership team. Dillon is located in Markel’s headquarters...
Virginia Assembly Passes Bill to Prevent Identity Theft
Feb 21 2017 // A bill that seeks to protect Virginians from losing their income tax refunds to identity thieves won final approval Wednesday in the General Assembly. The bill’s sponsor, Del. Mark Keam, D-Vienna, said thieves can...
New West Virginia Town Files Suit Against Drug Wholesalers Over Opioid Abuse
Feb 17 2017 // A southern West Virginia town has joined other communities in seeking to recoup the costs of dealing with opioid abuse. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the McDowell County town of Welch filed a lawsuit Monday against...
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...
