32 lives, 50 desperate minutes underground
Dispatcher Harry House sat alone in a spare booth on a hill above America's deepest coal mine. Around him, video screens transmitted gloomy, subterranean images from the long coal tunnels...
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32 lives, 50 desperate minutes underground
Dispatcher Harry House sat alone in a spare booth on a hill above America's deepest coal mine. Around him, video screens transmitted gloomy, subterranean images from the long coal tunnels...
Disaster at No. 5 Mine
Two thousand feet below the rolling, wind-scrubbed hills, in a remote section of North America's deepest coal mine, the walls began to creak and pop. In a dark corridor about...
Disaster at No. 5 Mine
Two thousand feet below the rolling, wind-scrubbed hills, in a remote section of North America's deepest coal mine, the walls began to creak and pop. In a dark corridor about...
GAO finds barriers to school food safety
American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food-borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional...
Safety of school food system to get congressional review
Congress will hold a hearing this month on the safety of U.S. school meal programs, Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin announced Tuesday. Durbin said the call for a congressional hearing...
U.S. says $80 million in suspect assets held
U.S. officials have frozen another $10 million in assets linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and the Taliban, a Treasury Department official said Tuesday. Since Sept. 11, federal...
Architects of Enron’s rise bred its demise
Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow embodied the two sides of Enron Corp.--publicly brash innovation and quiet but questionable financing to back the bravado. Ingenious but largely unknown even inside the...
Schools push food-safety plan
As he inspected a freshly painted cafeteria Thursday, Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan announced an expanded set of initiatives to ensure student meals are safe and school kitchens are sanitary....
Duncan vows food safety
Saying his top priority was the health of Chicago students, schools chief Arne Duncan on Monday announced a series of reforms to improve the cleanliness of school kitchens and the...