A West Virginia man has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing equipment from a coal mine. Danny Griffy, 57, of Sylvester, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court for aiding and abetting ...

Coal miners seldom get glory. Cowboys, astronauts and cops do, but how many boys strut around in coal miner helmets? In my imagination, miners are grim and unsmiling, with futures as bleak as the ...

MONTCOAL, W.Va., April 8, 2010 — -- Families of West Virginia coal miners killed or missing in Monday's mine explosion soon may see an end to their agonizing wait to be reunited with their ...

Rescue teams were exploring an underground West Virginia ... to us," Justice said, according to a state press release. "Many prayers were answered when the one individual exited the mine with ...

A giant explosion rippled through the Upper Big Branch coal mine in Montcoal ... Catholic Church in Whitesville, West Virginia.Jay Westcott / Polaris Contact us at [email protected] ...

"We are delighted to make West Virginia our home and aid the state's transition from its roots in coal mining to the new energy economy. We're grateful to Vantage Ventures for helping take us home ...

Three people who disappeared in a closed West Virginia mine last weekend have been rescued ... "We think they went in to steal copper wiring," McCray told USA TODAY. "Typically when mines ...

Dumping the waste rock into the valleys has buried 2,500 miles of streams, longer than the Mississippi River, according to the US ... removal mining. What was it like working in West Virginia?

“He needs us,’’ she ... southern West Virginia was a big net exporter of tax revenues; that federal policies, especially environmental ones, undercut coal mining; and that the region ...

The state of West Virginia sued two federal agencies on Wednesday, seeking to reverse the stricter controls on mountaintop coal mining adopted in 2009 by the Obama administration. Governor Joe ...