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<title>Judge approves Sago lawsuit settlements</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Kanawha County judge on Wednesday approved wrongful death lawsuit settlements between mine owners and the families of six of the coal miners who died in the Sago Mine Disaster.  Circuit Judge Charles King also signed off on sever...]]></description>
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<title>Final Sago Mine disaster lawsuits settled</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nearly six years after the Sago Mine disaster, the remaining wrongful-death lawsuits filed by families of the miners who died have been resolved, according to court records filed Friday.  Lawyers for families of six of the miners filed...]]></description>
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<title>Sago fines cut again</title>
<description><![CDATA[Read the decision <a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo" target="_blank">here</a>. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Obama administration has agreed to cut in half the fines that International Coal Group must pay in the second of two legal cases over viola...]]></description>
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<title>State hasnt followed up on Manchin coal-dust order</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nine days after Massey Energys Upper Big Branch Mine blew up, Gov. Joe Manchin issued an executive order that tightened West Virginias requirements for mine operators to control explosive coal dust in underground mines.Manchin or...]]></description>
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<title>Sago families look to Obama</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Peggy Cohens youngest son, Hunter, was only 2 years old when the Sago Mine blew up. Today, he still blows kisses whenever the family goes by his grandfathers grave.Cohens father, Fred Ware, was among the 12 miners killed in the Sag...]]></description>
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<title>PBS show highlights Gazette reporter's Sago coverage</title>
<description><![CDATA[An episode of a PBS show that focuses on The Charleston Gazette's coverage of the 2006 Sago Mine disaster and safety standards in the coal-mining industry can be watched online or on TV in the coming weeks."EXPOSÉ: America's Investigative Reports" showcas...]]></description>
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<title>Sago seal citations likely</title>
<description><![CDATA[State regulators plan to cite the Sago Mine’s operator for improper construction of seals that failed to contain the explosion last January that killed 12 workers, a mine safety inspector revealed Wednesday.Investigators, however, don’t believe the seal c...]]></description>
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Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>One year later</title>
<description><![CDATA[BUCKHANNON — In her pickup, over the visor, Lynda Anderson keeps a photograph. It’s famous now: Her husband Tom has smiled this same smile in a hundred newspapers since the Sago disaster took his life and 11 others one year ago.Before she drove away from ...]]></description>
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Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Sago Timeline</title>
<description><![CDATA[<B>Click on the PDFs at right to see the timeline.</B>The Sago and Aracoma coal mine tragedies left families grieving and a nation stunned. The government launched criminal investigations, and politicians promised it would never happen again. Here’s a lo...]]></description>
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<title>Sago families</title>
<description><![CDATA[WHAT happened. From the early hours of the Sago disaster, Gov. Joe Manchin distinguished himself as a compassionate leader. He sat with suffering families and promised them that their questions would be answered and they would be involved in the progress o...]]></description>
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<title>Miners still waiting on air packs</title>
<description><![CDATA[A year after the Sago Mine disaster, thousands of West Virginia coal miners are still waiting for the additional emergency breathing devices promised by Gov. Joe Manchin and the coal industry.Many of the state’s mine operators have placed orders with the ...]]></description>
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<title>Wooten remarks ‘outrage’ miners</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Ken Ward Jr.kward@wvgazette.comSago disaster survivor Randal McCloy Jr. and the United Mine Workers union on Friday criticized state mine safety director Ronald Wooten for calling the Sago Mine a well-run operation.McCloy and his wife, Anna, were “di...]]></description>
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<title>Mine ‘well-operated,’ official says</title>
<description><![CDATA[International Coal Group’s Sago Mine in Upshur County was a “well-operated coal mine,” the Manchin administration’s top mine safety official said Thursday.Ronald Wooten, director of the state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, said that his a...]]></description>
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<title>Sago families’ frustration grows</title>
<description><![CDATA[BUCKHANNON — Families of the Sago miners were exasperated at state officials’ attempt Wednesday to make up for last week’s botched report on the January coal mine disaster. Three victims’ families left halfway through, frustrated.“It’s a joke,” said Pegg...]]></description>
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<title>Sago Mine film an intimate look at victims, way of life</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN — Samantha Lewis still wakes to the sound of husband David lacing his boots, though now, it is only in her dreams.Owen Jones is still haunted by the moment he was forced out of the Sago Mine, leaving his trapped brother Jesse to the deadly gas ...]]></description>
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<title>State blames lightning for Sago by process of elimination</title>
<description><![CDATA[State investigators couldn’t find any batteries or cigarette lighters. Unlike western coal seams, West Virginia coal seldom spontaneously combusts.Investigators found several roof falls, but none close enough to have triggered the blast.So, state investi...]]></description>
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<title>Sago families still angry</title>
<description><![CDATA[Frustrated by a cursory briefing and a confusing report, families of the miners killed in the Sago Mine disaster are focusing their anger on Gov. Joe Manchin and his pick to run the state mine safety office, longtime CONSOL Energy official Ron Wooten.“Our...]]></description>
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<title>Sago questions linger</title>
<description><![CDATA[BUCKHANNON — In a controversial new report, state investigators repeat a familiar list of clues about the Sago Mine disaster: eerily timed lightning strikes, weak foam block seals, and problematic emergency breathing devices.But state officials concede th...]]></description>
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<title>Sago families ‘dissatisfied’ with state disaster report</title>
<description><![CDATA[BUCKHANNON — Families of the Sago Mine disaster victims drove to Buckhannon Monday, expecting to be the first to hear what state investigators have found out about the January disaster that killed 12 men.Instead, several said they were handed a two-inch-t...]]></description>
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<title>Mine safety chief blames high toll on calendar</title>
<description><![CDATA[ARLINGTON, Va. — In a business tower across the Potomac River from the nation’s capitol, the corner office reserved for the country’s top mine safety regulator provides a commanding view of suburban Washington.But the office’s new occupant, West Virginia...]]></description>
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<title>Lightning ‘involved’ at Sago, expert says</title>
<description><![CDATA[State investigators have concluded that lightning caused the Sago Mine disaster, but a report to be released Monday will still not explain exactly how the electrical strike ignited methane deep inside a sealed area of the Upshur County mine.An expert hire...]]></description>
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<title>Sago Mine cited for faulty breathing devices</title>
<description><![CDATA[Eight months after 11 miners suffocated following a methane explosion at the Sago Mine, International Coal Group sent at least six miners underground with broken emergency breathing devices, a state inspector has alleged.Jeff Bennett of the state Office o...]]></description>
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<title>More Sago suits filed</title>
<description><![CDATA[Nine new lawsuits were filed Wednesday by relatives of miners killed in the Sago Mine disaster, and this time several families targeted New York billionaire Wilbur Ross for his role in managing mine owner International Coal Group.The new suits also add tw...]]></description>
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<title>Judge blocks Sago suit action</title>
<description><![CDATA[A judge on Wednesday blocked for 60 days any action in three lawsuits filed by Sago Mine disaster victims against International Coal Group and other companies.Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King said he wanted to see if the other 10 Sago families would fil...]]></description>
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<title>Mine safety</title>
<description><![CDATA[SUNDAY’S paper told of the death of Bud Morris, a coal miner whose leg was cut off and whose knee was crushed when he was hit by an underground coal car. Simple tourniquets might have saved Morris’ life, if not his legs, but mine employees who were suppose...]]></description>
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<title>Sago widow, daughter urge tougher MSHA fines</title>
<description><![CDATA[A widow and daughter of one of the Sago Mine disaster victims on Tuesday urged federal regulators to stiffen fines for mine safety violations.“Fixing the problem should be cheaper than paying the fines,” said Deborah Hamner, whose husband George Junior Ha...]]></description>
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<title>Sago miners’ families troubled by suicides</title>
<description><![CDATA[Family members of six of the miners killed in the Sago Mine disaster said Thursday they are troubled by the suicides of two other men who worked at the mine.Thirteen family members issued a short statement to express sympathy for the families of miners Wi...]]></description>
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<title>Report criticizes MSHA complaint rules</title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal mine safety regulators take too long to investigate complaints about hazardous conditions in the nation’s mines, the Labor Department’s Inspector General has found.A “significant number” of hazardous condition complaints filed with the U.S. Mine S...]]></description>
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<title>Mine safety</title>
<description><![CDATA[IN July, Sen. Robert C. Byrd complained that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration didn’t act fast enough to hire inspectors to enforce coal mine safety, even after Congress gave the agency another $25.6 million to increase its ranks.Since then, ...]]></description>
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<title>Tragedy</title>
<description><![CDATA[THE SUICIDES of two men connected to the Sago mine disaster bring the death toll connected to the Jan. 2 explosion, directly or indirectly, to 14. They also remind West Virginia of the lingering suffering of mine employees and their families.Mine dispatch...]]></description>
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<title>Sago counseling money unused</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Manchin administration has yet to start spending a federal grant approved five months ago meant to help provide counseling to residents struggling with the lingering trauma of the Sago Mine disaster.Federal officials approved the $35,000 grant in Apri...]]></description>
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<title>2 workers from Sago Mine have shot themselves</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two key figures in January’s disaster at the Sago Mine in Upshur County have taken their own lives in the last three weeks, police and other officials have confirmed.Their deaths have family and friends of surviving Sago miners and mine rescuers — along w...]]></description>
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<title>Missing Aracoma walls spread smoke, probe finds</title>
<description><![CDATA[MELVILLE - On Jan. 19, the second shift was just getting started when the conveyor belts ground to a halt deep inside the <strong>Aracoma</strong> Alma No. 1 Mine in Logan County.Foreman Mike Plumley called to the surface to find out what was wrong. The ma...]]></description>
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<title>McCloy, two families sue</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sago Mine survivor Randal McCloy Jr. filed the first in a series of lawsuits Wednesday that allege poor safety practices by mine owner International Coal Group caused the January disaster at the Upshur County mine.Lawsuits were also filed Wednesday by the...]]></description>
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<title>Memorial honors Sago miners</title>
<description><![CDATA[TALLMANSVILLE — Family members and local residents gathered in Upshur County on Sunday afternoon to dedicate a monument to the 12 coal miners who died in the Sago Mine disaster.Gov. Joe Manchin joined several hundred people just outside the Sago Baptist C...]]></description>
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<title>Sago report urges giving safety workers mine power</title>
<description><![CDATA[BUCKHANNON — Peggy Cohen had not had time to read every word of Davitt McAteer’s 97-page report on the Sago Mine disaster.But just a quick glance told Cohen most of what she needed to know.“I am angry and I am upset,” said Cohen, the daughter of Sago min...]]></description>
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<title>Report criticizes gap in Sago rescue info</title>
<description><![CDATA[An independent report released last week on the Sago Mine disaster faults mine operator International Coal Group for not telling families for nearly three hours that all but one of the miners had been found dead.The report by Davitt McAteer, a special adv...]]></description>
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<title>Series of mine lightning strikes largely ignored</title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators largely ignored a string of eight mine explosions caused by lightning strikes near U.S. coal mines between 1993 and 2001, according to a new independent report on the Sago Mine disaster.No one connected the dots to determine how the lig...]]></description>
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<title>Sago tragedy</title>
<description><![CDATA[TWELVE miners would not have died after the Sago mine explosion if they had been given better breathing and communications devices and if rescuers had gone underground sooner, according to Gov. Joe Manchin’s independent investigator.“At the Sago Mine, eve...]]></description>
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<title>Sago families urge Manchin to follow through on disaster report</title>
<description><![CDATA[Families of the Sago Mine victims on Thursday urged Gov. Joe Manchin to implement the recommendations in a report by independent investigator Davitt McAteer.“The report correctly recognizes that coal mines are safe,” the families said in a prepared statem...]]></description>
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Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Sago report proposes reforms</title>
<description><![CDATA[BUCKHANNON — Lightning probably ignited the Jan. 2 explosion at the Sago Mine, but 12 miners would not have died if they had been given better breathing devices and communications gear and if rescuers had gone underground sooner, according to an independen...]]></description>
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Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Sago blast cause might never be known</title>
<description><![CDATA[A report expected next month will not pinpoint the exact cause of the January explosion that killed 12 workers at the Sago Mine, West Virginia’s lead investigator said Thursday.Davitt McAteer, a special assistant to Gov. Joe Manchin, said it is entirely p...]]></description>
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Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Court upholds role of UMW in probe of Sago disaster</title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court has upheld the United Mine Workers’ role in the government’s investigation of the Sago Mine disaster.The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that ordered International Coal Group to allow UMW representativ...]]></description>
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Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>‘Our options were next to none’</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sago Mine survivor Randal McCloy tried proper procedures to start emergency oxygen packs that McCloy says failed four fellow miners who perished in the Jan. 2 disaster, investigators have learned.McCloy was able to start his own self-contained self-rescue...]]></description>
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Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mine safety bill signed</title>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — With the sole survivor of the Sago mine disaster looking on, President Bush signed into law the first major overhaul of mine safety laws in three decades.“Only one man came out, and he’s with us today,’’ Bush said Thursday of Randal McCloy Jr...]]></description>
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Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mine radio test results ‘promising,’ MSHA says</title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators said Thursday their tests of new communications devices for underground coal mines had produced “promising” results.In at least one test, a prototype radio delivered cell-phone quality voice communications more than two miles into an un...]]></description>
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Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Congress OKs mine safety bill by wide margin</title>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — It will never be as safe as a desk job, but lawmakers hope coal mining becomes less risky due to changes they ordered Wednesday.In a 381-37 vote, the House endorsed a bill that would require mine operators to put more oxygen supplies undergro...]]></description>
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Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Education group honors McCloy</title>
<description><![CDATA[The wife of Sago Mine disaster survivor Randal McCloy Jr. will never forget growing up in Taylor County, and as a Grafton High School graduate, she is thankful that her children will be able to attend the same county schools she did.Anna Green McCloy was ...]]></description>
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Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Toughest rules are missing from federal mine safety bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[A mine safety bill passed by the U.S. Senate is missing some of the toughest provisions proposed by West Virginia’s congressional delegation after the Sago Mine disaster and the Aracoma Mine fire.Just before Memorial Day, one day after Senate approval, th...]]></description>
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Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Planners need an extra year on mine safety</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia coal operators need at least another year to come up with plans to install wireless communications equipment and miner tracking gear, a state task force reported Wednesday.Operators should be given until July 31, 2007, to submit the plans, a...]]></description>
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Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:00:00 -0400
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