But the tension continues. Every week several mines are blown up, and just recently a coal operator's home in Hazard, Ky., was dynamited. Rumors spread quickly and are embellished extensively in ...

I can’t say that I anticipated just the wholesale closure of every mine safety office in eastern Kentucky,” he said. Locations include ...

Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 coal mine accident in Harlan County because the first aid available in the mine was inadequate to ...