Catie Beck

1 week ago | wtvr.com | Catie Beck |Mike Bergazzi

RICHMOND, Va. — In the latest episode of “Untold – A WTVR Podcast,” host Catie Beck sits down with Tom Barbour, a Richmond attorney running to be the city’s commonwealth’s attorney. It is the second time Barbour has challenged Colette McEachin in the democratic primary; he lost to her in 2021 in a race that ultimately was not very competitive. But Barbour says he’s confident things will go differently this time. “From what I have seen, I think people are tired,” Barbour said.

3 weeks ago | wtvr.com | Catie Beck |Mike Bergazzi

RICHMOND, Va. — In the latest episode of “Untold – A WTVR Podcast,” host Catie Beck sits down with Janet Kelly, Virginia’s Secretary of Health and Human Resources. It is the second time Kelly has served in a governor’s cabinet; she was previously Secretary of the Commonwealth for Gov. Bob McDonnell. But Kelly says her current job allows her to focus on the issues that keep her up at night, like the fentanyl epidemic and children’s mental health.

1 month ago | wtvr.com | Mike Bergazzi |Catie Beck

RICHMOND, Va. — Catie Beck sits down for an extensive interview with Levar Stoney, the former Richmond mayor who is now running for lieutenant governor of Virginia, on the latest episode of "Untold – A WTVR Podcast."Stoney spoke openly about his childhood and how his life changed forever when his mother agreed to let his grandmother move him from New York to Virginia. “I was born to a couple of unwed teenagers. My mother was 16, my father was 18.

Sep 5, 2024 | scrippsnews.com | Catie Beck

Sky-high demand and costly price tags for wildly popular injectable diet drugs are now fueling the sale of counterfeit versions. Since January, the FDA has confiscated thousands of counterfeit diet drugs, issuing warnings about the potentially dangerous medications they say threaten the safety of public health. The FDA warns some of these fake drugs have even fooled pharmacists and managed to slip into the U.S. supply chain, causing hospitalizations and death.

Apr 26, 2024 | wxyz.com | Carrie Cochran |Amy Fan |Catie Beck

A cost-saving decision 10 years ago created one of the more shocking public health scandals in the country — killing a dozen residents and exposing 100,000 others in Flint, Michigan, to poisonous water contaminated with lead — all while city and state officials claimed the water was safe. When the errors were exposed more than a year later, city and state officials vowed to clean up the mess and replace the corroding pipes poisoning residents.