BUCKHANNON, W.Va. -- Trapped deep below ground by poisonous gases, the Sago miners realized at least four of their air packs did not work, and they were forced to share the devices as they desperately ...

Providing new details about the final desperate hours of the Sago Mine disaster that left 12 miners dead in West Virginia, a letter sent this week by the sole survivor said that at least four of the ...

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. Trapped deep below ground by poisonous gases, the Sago miners realized at least four of their air packs did not work, and they were forced to share the devices as they desperately ...

PHILIPPI, W.Va. -- The funerals began early -- they had to. There were just so many in West Virginia's coal mining towns this Sunday. And after the agonizing heartbreak that played out on television ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The lone survivor of the Sago Mine disaster and the families of two victims on Wednesday sued the mine owner and five other companies, alleging negligence that put the miners at ...

The explosion that killed 12 workers at the Sago Mine was probably caused by a lightning bolt that ignited methane gas in a sealed-off area, the mine’s owner said in Morgantown. The company’s ...

The first of eight search-and-rescue teams entered the Sago Mine in the race against time more than 11 hours after the blast trapped the miners. Rescuers were kept out of the mine for most of the day ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – A review panel has reinstated $14,500 in penalties proposed by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration against a coal company for violations involving the 2006 Sago ...

SAGO, W.Va., Jan. 3 -- -- SAGO, W.Va., Jan. 3 -- A dozen miners trapped 12,000 feet into a mountainside since early Monday were found alive Tuesday night just hours after rescuers found the body of a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Reporters who covered the Sago mining disaster in West Virginia the previous month discussed coverage of the story, including the misinformation ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- There was no way out and it didn't sound like anyone was coming to help, said the letter a Sago coal miner left in his lunch pail. Holding back tears, Sara Bailey, the daughter of ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Two miners whose jobs included watching for safety hazards inside the Sago Mine before the deadly explosion last January committed suicide in the past month. Neither man had been ...