At least 12 miners were killed and 10 were unaccounted for after an explosion ripped through a West Virginia coal mine on Monday, mining officials said. The explosion occurred about 3 p.m. at the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The bodies of all 29 West Virginia coal miners killed in an explosion last week have been recovered from the mine, a spokeswoman for the state mine office said Tuesday.

The massive coal dust explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal ... The former chief executive of a company that owned a West Virginia mine where 29 miners were killed in a 2010 explosion was ...

A West Virginia coal mine explosion 50 years ago haunts the town of Farmington. Families want to reinstate a lawsuit. Sen. Joe Manchin tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro that the town wants closure.

Hyre Stalnaker was working in the carpenter shop at the coal mines of Monongah, West Virginia, when the explosion came. First he heard the blast; then he felt the tremor. Seconds later ...

A coal mine explosion, which may have been sparked ... last March when it bought Anker West Virginia Mining Co., which had been in bankruptcy. In 2004, the latest year for which figures are ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

FARMINGTON, WV (WVNS) — Coal mining is deeply ingrained with West Virginia history ... Health Administration stated that the cause of the explosion was never discovered. Lincoln and the ...

He was 86. In 2010, an explosion in a coal mine near Montcoal, in West Virginia's Raleigh County, killed 29 workers. In 2016, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to mandate six weeks of fully ...

The underground explosion was set off when a miner ... the miners who lost their lives because of lax safety in West Virginia coal mines — and he spoke of the burial ground called Little ...