Quecreek News

Jul 1, 2009 5:31 am US/Eastern ANDREW MIGA, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON A federal panel is deciding whether a judge fairly assessed $110,000 in fines against two companies cited for negligence in an accident at Pennsylvania's Quecreek Mine that trapped nine coal miners underground for 77 hours before their dramatic rescue.

BY RUTHRICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM For the benefit of a local organization, a tribute band is going to rock the house.

All of the plaintiffs and defendants in the civil lawsuits stemming from the August 2007 accidents at Genwal Resource, Inc.'s Crandall Canyon Mine have reached a comprehensive settlement for a confidential amount.

The plaintiffs and defendants in civil lawsuits stemming from the August 2007 fatal accidents at Crandall Canyon coal mine have negotiated a comprehensive settlement agreement involving an undisclosed sum of money.

A A A' Eight men trapped in a Pennsylvania mine for three days in 2002 have settled lawsuits against its operator and an engineering firm that drew maps they used when drilling into an adjacent mine full of ...

More than 24 stories under the Somerset County hamlet of Quecreek, on July 24, 2002, nine trapped miners gathered in a tight pocket of a coal seam.

America's County again is in the limelight - this time as seen through the eyes of young historians in a 60-minute PBS video.

Natasha Brown, one of the region's most versatile broadcasters, can be seen on both CBS 3 and The CW Philly 57.A Brown joined CBS 3's Eyewitness News as a general assignment reporter in December, 2002.A A In ...

A month after the crime, Meyersdale police said Monday they have arrested the borough man responsible for taking nearly $1,000 in stereo equipment from three cars.

The seven-member Board of Coal Mine Safety met for the first time this week in Harrisburg and put transportation on its agenda.

A seven-member board established under Pennsylvania's new bituminous mine safety law met for the first time Wednesday to begin making the state's deep underground coal mines safer for those who work there.

With no high-speed Internet access, Hemminger Auto and Truck Parts along Penn Avenue in Lincoln Township has been at a competitive disadvantage for some time.

Emma Jean Armstrong didn't expect to spend her Friday afternoon digging ditches in the lawn of her Posey Corner home.