Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal ...

** CORRECTS DISTANCE UNDERGROUND ** West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin visits friends and family of the 13 trapped miners Monday evening at Sago Baptist Church in Tallmansville, W.Va. The 13 coal ...

Rescuers are racing to find a miner who's been trapped in a flooded West Virginia coal mine for days. Crews are pumping out thousands of gallons of water per minute at the Rolling Thunder Mine to help ...

Providing new details about the final desperate hours of the Sago Mine disaster that left 12 miners dead in West Virginia, a letter sent this week by the sole survivor said that at least four of the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – A review panel has reinstated $14,500 in penalties proposed by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration against a coal company for violations involving the 2006 Sago ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- There was no way out and it didn't sound like anyone was coming to help, said the letter a Sago coal miner left in his lunch pail. Holding back tears, Sara Bailey, the daughter of ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. AP - Randal McCloy Jr., the lone survivor of the Sago Mine disaster of 2006, and the family of one victim have settled lawsuits against the mine's owner.Lawyers for McCloy and the ...

The explosion that killed 12 workers at the Sago Mine was probably caused by a lightning bolt that ignited methane gas in a sealed-off area, the mine’s owner said in Morgantown. The company’s ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The miners union on Thursday blamed last year’s deadly Sago Mine explosion on friction between rocks and a metal roof-support system, rather than lightning. The United Mine Workers ...

The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission has overturned a decision by Administrative Law Judge Jerold Feldman regarding Wolf Run Mining Co.’s response to the Jan. 2, 2006, explosion that ...