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Utah mines cited along with others nationwide

Last updated Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 7:14pm

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal inspectors issued nearly 600 citations for safety violations found at 30 problem mining operations across the country in September, the Mine Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday.

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Inspectors cite dozens of mines in September

The Associated Press, Tim Huber ahowell

Last updated Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 1:36pm

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal inspectors issued nearly 600 citations for safety violations found at 30 problem mining operations across the country in September, the Mine Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday.

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Serious problems turn up at other Massey mines

Tim Huber The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 16, 2010 - 12:46pm

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal inspectors have found more than 60 serious safety violations at Massey Energy operations since the explosion that killed 29 miners at the company's Upper Big Branch mine, federal mine safety records show.

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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, at podium, asks for a moment of silence to honor the 29 miners killed one week ago in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine during a memorial service in front of the coal miner statue at the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Monday, April 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)

Bodies of all dead W. Va. miners recovered

Lawrence Messina, Tim Huber The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 8:33am

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.

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(The Associated Press) A sign hangs in a yard near Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine Tuesday in Montcoal, W.Va. The blast Monday at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine, the nation's deadliest mining disaster since at least 1984, was believed to have been caused by a buildup of highly combustible methane.

W.Va. mine owner accused of putting safety second

Tim Huber The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 8:59pm

SLIDESHOW: Reactions to the Mine Explosion

JULIAN, W.Va. -- The coal mine rocked by an explosion that killed at least 25 workers in the nation's deadliest mining disaster since 1984 had been cited for 600 violations in less than a year and a half, some of them for not properly ventilating methane -- the highly combustible gas suspected in the blast.

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(MATT GENTRY/The Associated Press) Haiyang Zhu, listens to the judge explain court procedures in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Chrsiatiansburg Va. On Monday. Zhu, 26, pleaded guilty this morning to first-degree murder in the Jan. 21 death of Xin Yang, 22, who was attacked and decapitated as the pair had coffee together.

Ex-Va. Tech student pleads guilty in decapitation

Tim Huber The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 21, 2009 - 1:38pm

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. -- A former Virginia Tech graduate student pleaded guilty Monday to decapitating a classmate who had rejected his romantic advances, prosecutors said as they revealed a motive for the first time in the campus cafe killing.

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