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Nov 29, 2024

Legal Elite 2024: Civil Litigation Q&A Bill O’Mara Jr.

Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Partner/Attorney Other legal specialties: Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers exclusively represents people injured by the negligence of others with a focus on catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases arising from car, truck and motorcycle accidents. I also have experience repre[...]

Nov 5, 2024

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A VCU Police officer shoots pepper spray at student and protest organizer Sereen Haddad, in black-and white checkered keffiyeh, outside Cabell Library on Monday, April 29. Riot police clashed with students holding a pro-Palestine encampment. Photo by Andrew Kerley.
Oct 2, 2024

Va. universities take ‘heavy hand’ with protest policies, advocate says

RICHMOND, Va. — Students, lawmakers and free-speech activists question if updated university policies that regulate student demonstrations violate First Amendment rights. After campus protests that led to some clashes with police, institutions such as Virginia Commonwealth University, James Madison University, University o[...]

Aug 29, 2024

Living Legends 2024: JIM McGLOTHLIN

McGlothlin’s story begins in Grundy, where he practiced law as a partner at the firm of Street, Street & McGlothlin until 1970. That year, he became founding partner of United Coal Co., which became a billion-dollar business by the time it was sold in 2009 to a Ukrainian billionaire’s company. The William & Mary alum[...]

Green M109A7 self-propelled howitzer on a gravel road at dusk.
Aug 2, 2024

BAE Systems receives $493M Army contract

Falls Church-based BAE Systems Inc. has received a $493 million U.S. Army contract to produce M109A7 self-propelled howitzers and M992A3 ammunition carriers, the U.S. arm of British defense giant BAE Systems plc announced Aug. 2. The contract’s production and deliveries are scheduled between August 2025 and July 2026. The M109[...]

Jul 18, 2024

Va. casinos report $59.5M in June revenues

June gaming revenues for Virginia’s three casinos totaled $59.5 million, according to Virginia Lottery data released July 15. June numbers broke a three-month streak in which the casinos brought in combined totals of more than $60 million, casinos.com noted this week.  Last month, the Bristol Casino: Future Home of Hard Rock [...]

Jun 28, 2024

Arlington’s CareJourney acquired

Arlington County’s CareJourney, a health care data and analytics company co-founded by former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, has been acquired by Arcadia, a health care data platform headquartered in Boston, according to a June 27 announcement.   A spokesperson for Arcadia declined to provide financial terms of[...]

2024 Virginia Business CFO Awards. From left: Virginia Business President and Publisher Bernie Niemeier; Large company winner: Sean Daily, CAES; Nonprofit/Government winner: John Zabrowski, VHC Health; Small company winner: Joel Flax, Cohen Investment Group; Richard Foster, Virginia Business editor/chief content editor. Photo by Rick DeBerry.
Jun 13, 2024

Virginia Business announces 2024 Va. CFO Awards winners

Virginia Business recognized some of the state’s top chief financial officers from nonprofits and businesses across the commonwealth Thursday at its 2024 Virginia CFO Awards ceremony. This year’s Virginia CFO Awards black-tie banquet — the largest annual gathering of CFOs in Virginia — was held at The Jefferson Hotel[...]

Branch Group Sign framed by tree.
Jun 7, 2024

Branch Group acquires N.C. contractor

The Branch Group, a Roanoke-based heavy-highway and building contractor, has closed on its acquisition of Burnsville, North Carolina-based Young & McQueen, a 37-year-old contracting firm specializing in heavy civil and highway construction, site work, bridges and structures construction, the company announced Monday. Branch [...]

Mar 27, 2024

Va. legislation details micro business funding criteria for retail cannabis market

RICHMOND — Virginia’s plan for a recreational cannabis market includes a way to help micro businesses, formerly known as the social equity license, get involved with what is anticipated to be a multimillion dollar business — if the plan survives the governor’s desk. The Virginia Cannabis Equity Loan Fund will provide gra[...]

Mar 22, 2024

RTX subsidiary lands $118M Army contract

The U.S. Army has finalized a contract potentially worth $118 million with Arlington County-based Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX, to produce common sensor payloads, which will serve as “eyes” for an uncrewed aircraft system, the government announced Tuesday.  The common sensor payloads, which will be used on California-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ MQ-1C Gray Eagle, will […][...]

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