Randy Piche, a long-time Hampton Roads Sanitation District employee, died Tuesday morning after falling through an opening on a third-floor walkway at the Army Base Treatment Plant in Norfolk on…
Last Wednesday, a Minnesota (MN) Washington County Court judge affirmed a $21.6 million jury verdict against rail operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. for failing to maintain a safe…
Webster Keck of Suffolk, Virginia (VA) was driving his Dodge pickup truck along Interstate 664 (I-664) near the intersection of Interstate 64 (I-64) in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) when Seth Arnold…
In the wake of the tragic death of bicyclist Charles F. McCarty Jr. in August, city officials in Chesapeake (VA) want to lower the speed limit on Johnstown Road, where McCarty was…
The percentage of people killed in highway accidents has been steadily decreasing over the past few years and we’re at the lowest percentage of highway fatalities since 1961, according to the…
When it comes to legal liability and negligence, the threshold question is generally what attorneys call duty. If I am injured in some way, I cannot recover any damages unless the person responsible…
Just last week, Hampton Roads victims of Chinese drywall trekked to Washington, D.C. to make their case to lawmakers and regulators, as I wrote about last week. My colleague John Cooper has also…
Tuesday afternoon saw the launch of a coordinated, and much-needed, public education campaign to drive home the message that drinking and driving puts everyone on Virginia’s roads at risk for injury…
Questions remain after an explosive tanker truck crash on Interstate 664 in Newport News (VA) near the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel in September that left the truck driver dead. The…
Good news on the trend toward fewer deaths on the nation’s roads and highways was tempered last Friday by a report of yet another fatal car crash in Newport News. The National Highway…
Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb sad down with some perturbed Virginia homeowners whove been dealing with toxic Chinese drywall, according to WVEC.com. There have been over 1,500…
The recent sentencing of Matthew Burch in a fatal drunken-driving case in James City County is a sad reminder of the dangers innocent drivers face on our nation’s roads. Burch, 36, was…