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The Salem/Roanoke County Bar Association, whose members normally dine on the banquet food at the Salem Civic Center, will aim its culinary standards a bit higher for a fundraiser in November .  Wade Anderson, gourmand, restaurant critic and appellate law ...

A large group of Virginia investors has lost its bid to sue seven banks in a federal mortgage fraud lawsuit. The 127 plaintiffs, many of whom were educators in Fairfax, claimed they were defrauded into buying overpriced real estate in ...

A ruling by a Washington County circuit judge reinforces the high hurdle faced by property owners claiming “vested rights” for large commercial projects under Virginia law use law. Developers who hoped to build a 184,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter in Abingdon did ...

Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ray Grubbs has agreed to move another Morva trial. Michael Morva is accused of helping his brother, William, plan an escape from the Montgomery County jail in an 2006 incident that left both a county deputy ...

Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ray Grubbs has agreed to move another Morva trial. Michael Morva is accused of helping his brother, William, plan an escape from the Montgomery County jail in an 2006 incident that left both a county deputy ...

A Florida man is headed to federal prison for more than seven years for running a bait-and-switch operation that advertised power scooters for Medicare patients.  Instead of the jaunty power scooters they saw on television ads, the victims were stuck ...

Tagged with: Fraud

Virginia health care plans will recover nearly $12 million under the nation’s largest ever health care settlement announced today, reports the state’s attorney general. Bill Mims said Virginia’s total federal and state Medicaid recovery under the government’s agreement with pharmaceutical ...

Virginia investors who claim they were defrauded into buying overpriced real estate in coastal Carolina have lost their bid to sue seven banks in their federal mortgage fraud lawsuit. In a 36-page memorandum order, U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ...

Tagged with: Fraud Real Estate

Developers who hoped to build a 184,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter in Abingdon did not have “vested rights” for the project even though the town planning commission may have approved by default a final site plan, under a ruling last week by ...

Tagged with: Land Use & Zoning

A Maryland father won a $50,000 verdict for the death of his son, when all he wanted was a public apology from the step-father who allegedly allowed the troubled teen access to a handgun. A Maryland jury returned the verdict ...