Collecting $26M Award From White Nationalists May Be Challenging November 29, 2021 By Denise Lavoie and Michael Kunzelman Nine people who sued white nationalist leaders and organizations over the violence at a deadly rally in Charlottesville in 2017...
Virginia is Latest State to Sue Purdue Pharma Family September 13, 2019 By Denise Lavoie Virginia has joined a growing number of states suing members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma for their alleged...
Government Fails to Block Liability Lawsuit Over Failed Background Check on Shooter September 3, 2019 By Denise Lavoie A lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed a South Carolina man to buy the gun he used to...
Arsenic in Groundwater? Virginia Coal Ash Case Before Court March 23, 2018 By Denise Lavoie Virginia’s largest electric utility asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to overturn a judge’s ruling that the company is violating...
NTSB: Truck Hit by GOP Train in Virginia Was on Tracks After Warning February 23, 2018 By Denise Lavoie and Heidi Brown Witnesses told investigators that a garbage truck struck by a train carrying Republican congressmen through rural Virginia entered the railroad...
Rolling Stone Slams Defamation Claim in University of Virginia Rape Story November 20, 2017 By Denise Lavoie Rolling Stone is defending itself against a defamation lawsuit over a discredited article about a University of Virginia gang rape...
Massachusetts and Rhode Island Doctor Pleads Guilty for Overprescribing Opioids March 17, 2017 By Denise Lavoie At Dr. Fathalla Mashali’s pain management clinics, the waiting rooms were often so packed with patients that people sat on...
Plunging Temperatures in Northeast Lead to Icy Conditions Following Storm March 16, 2017 By Colleen Long and Denise Lavoie Concerns about falling temperatures and icy conditions on roads and sidewalks across the Northeast followed a late-season storm that plastered...
Security Breach at New York’s Kennedy Airport Unnerves Some Travelers February 24, 2017 By Denise Lavoie A breach that allowed 11 people to walk through an unattended security checkpoint lane at one of the nation’s busiest...
Massachusetts Smokers Sue Philip Morris to Pay for Cancer Screenings January 27, 2016 By Denise Lavoie A decade after a group of smokers from Massachusetts sued Philip Morris USA to try to force the cigarette maker...