Jul 27th, 2006 · The West Virginia Miners youth basketball team was formed two months after the Sago Mine disaster, in tribute to 14 miners who died this year. This week, the team is set to play in the Amateur Athletic Union championship in Florida. Coach Shannon Mealer and player Bo King talk to Noah Adams.
Jul 20th, 2006 · An independent investigation into last January's Sago mine tragedy -- in which 12 coal miners died -- does not pinpoint the cause of the explosion. But it cites a number of systemic breakdowns that led to the tragedy. West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) received the report Wednesday. West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Anna Sale reports.
Jul 19th, 2006 · The investigator of this year's disaster at the Sago coal mine in West Virginia issues a preliminary report that narrows the possible causes of the explosion. Still, the report states that, after the explosion, "everything that could go wrong, did go wrong."
May 4th, 2006 · The owner of the Sago Mine in West Virginia has a theory on what caused the explosion that killed 12 miners: Lightning. But state and federal investigators are skeptical.
May 3rd, 2006 · A rescuer testifying at a public hearing into West Virginia's Sago mine disaster admits to mistakenly saying the trapped miners were alive, when in fact the sole survivor had been located. The rescuer nearly broke down while describing finding the dead miners. The early word that the trapped men were alive elated families and relatives, who later discovered that all but one had died.
Apr 27th, 2006 · At least four air packs issued to the doomed crew of the Sago Mine failed to function, says West Virginia coal mine survivor Randal McCloy. The revelation is part of a letter McCloy wrote to the family members of the 12 men who died after an explosion trapped them on Jan. 2.
Feb 3rd, 2006 · Gov. Joe Manchin has called for a temporary halt to coal mining in West Virginia after the deaths of 16 men in four accidents since Jan. 2. Manchin wants mining to cease until safety checks can be conducted. The deadliest incident was at the Sago mine, where 12 men died.
Jan 26th, 2006 · A federal judge says union members may join government investigators inside West Virginia's Sago Mine, site of a disaster that killed 14 workers. As Anna Sale of WVPR reports, union members were blocked from entering the mine Wednesday and told they couldn't monitor an investigator's interviews last week.