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Tragedy has struck a West Virginia coal mine as 25 people were killed following an explosion at Massey Energy Company’s Big Branch mine Suggested Reading TikToker Breaks Down the One Way Black ...
KANAWHA COUNTY, West Virginia — Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Earlier this month, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers from United Drilling Inc. operate drilling equipment in attempts to drill an observation hole into a shaft where 13 ...
A massive search operation continued Wednesday in West Virginia, where officials said crews were "working around the clock" and continuing "aggressive" efforts to locate a missing coal miner who ...
The body of Steve Lipscomb, a 38-year-old father and veteran coal miner, who had been trapped underground in the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia for five days, was recovered Thursday morning, ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...