The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...

Safety laws and their enforcement played a significant role before and after the Upper Big Branch mine in southern West Virginia blew up 15 years ago Saturday, killing 29 of Stewart's co-workers.

"Our concerns are that we are going to safeguard those that are working in West Virginia coal mines," Fehrenbacher said. He said, under this legislation, all necessary training and testing will ...