Wednesday's announcement came just after Sovah Health-Danville Chief Operating Officer John Kent gave an update on the hospital to Danville City Council. The drug settlement was not mentioned Tuesday evening.
Sovah Health — the umbrella organization with hospitals in Danville and Martinsville — will pay the United States government $4.36 million in a settlement over claims it violated the Controlled Substances Act, the U.S. Department of Justice reported Wednesday morning.
A former Novant Health nurse was sentenced Wednesday for tampering with drugs. She was already serving a prison sentence for a similar crime.
Mitchell and her accomplice used the personal information of inmates to file for unemployment money.
Two months after a judge rejected his plea agreement, Yost was back in court with a new judge — who considered the same agreement and accepted it.
Called about trespassers in a Montgomery County field, officers last year found a backpack that held a safe – that held a quarter-pound of methamphetamine.
Laurie Lynn Coleman pleaded not guilty Tuesday. She is charged in the killing of George Lamont Turner, who died from a knife wound to the chest, according to a medical examiner’s testimony.
Called about trespassers in a Montgomery County field, officers last year found a backpack that held a safe – that held a quarter-pound of methamphetamine.
In Giles County Recovery Court, a judge trades robes for workout clothes to join defendants in push-ups, sit-ups and the dreaded "Wal-Lees."
Laurie Lynn Coleman pleaded not guilty Tuesday. She is charged in the killing of George Lamont Turner, who died from a knife wound to the chest, according to a medical examiner’s testimony.
Deshawn Kiree Tucker is charged with abducting two women from Radford and taking them to Henry County.
Joseph Yost is accused of improperly spending money that belonged to the Giles County Historical Society during his time as its executive director.
Isiah Robinson, a PH senior and football standout who was celebrating his acceptance into college, was killed shortly Friday by gunshots in downtown Blacksburg.
A suspect in a homicide and multiple shootings in downtown Blacksburg late Friday appears to have recorded his Saturday night arrest by police on Facebook Live.
A Virginia Tech student was among the people injured, according to university President Tim Sands.
Emilee Kathryn Poteat, formerly employed as a Sovah Health-Danville registered nurse — was sentenced Friday in Danville's federal court.
A Senate bill that would increase compensation for jurors selected for circuit court trials in Virginia from $30 to $100 a day has moved forward without opposition. The current compensation amount of $30 hasn't changed in "decades," the bill's sponsor says.
Calvin E. Robertson Jr., 90, and Gloria Robertson, 88, died after the Thursday morning incident, police said.
Deshawn Tucker is accused of abducting two women from a Radford grocery store parking lot.
Eric Dwayne Swain Jr., 21, accused of robbing a food order from Dodge's Store in Bassett Sunday, has been identified by police as a suspect in a fatal shooting that same night in Roanoke.
Eric Dwayne Swain Jr., 21, was arrested in North Carolina after a Sunday night robbery was reported at a convenience store in Henry County and a car theft was reported outside another convenience store in Greensboro.
Eric Dwayne Swain Jr., 21, was arrested in North Carolina after a Sunday night robbery was reported at a convenience store in Henry County and a car theft was reported outside another convenience store in Greensboro.
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According to a search warrant, Giles County Historical Society directors became aware that money was missing, then learned that a debit card was being used to withdraw funds.
The Board will be renamed to the "Charlottesville Police Civilian Oversight Board" in light of the new role and powers permitted by the ordinance.
Gov. Ralph Northam has granted a conditional pardon to Margaret Blair Dacey, a 26-year-old Colonial Heights woman serving 20 years for second-degree murder, in a complicated case in which four young defendants initially were considered equally culpable for the 2013 death of Russell "Rusty" Mack, but only Dacey was convicted.
Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted Jones' sentence to life without the possibility of parole.
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder accuses prosecutor Thomas Binger of an improper line of questioning of Kyle Rittenhouse during Rittenhouse's homicide trial. Binger said he thought the door was open to his questions because of previous testimony, but the judge rejected that.
As Marissa Blair took the stand Monday in Charlottesville’s federal court she sat in the same seat that several defendants have sat as they defended both James Fields’ actions and their own.
A driver is facing charges for a June wreck that killed one person and seriously injured another in Franklin County.
Two men are dead following what apparently was a dispute between family members at a Franklin County home.