The collapse happened Wednesday due to heavy rains at the rebel-controlled Rubaya mines. Congo is a major supplier of coltan, ...

More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Lumumba Kambere Muyisa, spokesperson for the rebel-appointed governor of the ...

Deputies in Kanawha County need your help finding a hit-and-run driver who collided head-on with a United States Postal Service mail truck. The National Guard is helping people get access to critical ...

Jan. 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union. In 1811, Timothy Pickering, a ...

A memorial in honor of the 12 Sago miners who lost their lives was placed by the historic Covered Bridge in Philippi. Three of the men who died in the accident were from Barbour County. (Photo ...

Friday marked 20 years to the day of the Sago Mine Disaster, an explosion that occurred in Upshur County on Jan. 2, 2006, trapping 13 miners underground. An all-time classic Ole Miss-Georgia Sugar ...

In the fall of 2024, Wilbur Milhouse III, a member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, visited the University’s Prairie Research Institute and was shown the Net-Zero Center of Excellence, ...

Hannah Wiseman is affiliated with the Center for Progressive Reform. Along with a team of other Penn State researchers, she also received a seed grant from the Penn State Institute of Energy and the ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - On this date in 1968, Consolidation Coal Company sealed off its Number 9 mine. It came after a massive explosion that became known as the Farmington Mine Disaster just north ...

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 ...

FARMINGTON, W.Va (WDTV) - It’s been 57 years since dark clouds of smoke filled the skies of Marion County after one of the deadliest mine disasters in our country’s history. An explosion killed 78 ...