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 ...

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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] ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?