Coal Mining

McROBERTS, Ky. — Like most coal miners’ loved ones, Liz Williams has endured many days and nights of worry.Throughout the four decades her husband, Michael, worked in…

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Buu Nygren has ousted Jonathan Nez as president of the Navajo Nation, a position that…

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo voters are deciding Tuesday who they want to be their next president — a position…

By KRISTIN M. HALL - AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM - Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The sprawling economic package passed by the U.S. Senate this week has a certain West…

AP WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The death toll from two coal mine accidents last week in southern Poland has risen to 13 after another injured miner died…

AP WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The death toll from two coal mine accidents last week in southern Poland has risen to 12 after the bodies of two missing miners…

AP WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The death toll from accidents in recent days at two coal mines in southern Poland has increased to seven after two miners were…

AP WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescue workers in southern Poland have reached four of the 10 miners who went missing early Saturday after a powerful…

AP WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A powerful underground tremor and methane gas discharge hit a second coal mine Saturday in southern Poland, forcing dozens of…