A gas line exploded Monday at a technology plant in northern Illinois, sending aloft debris that killed a man at a nearby highway rest area. The explosion rocked the NDK America Inc. plant in Belvidere, about 70 miles northwest of Chicago, sending trembles through buildings as far as a mile away and echoing throughout the community of about 20,000 ...

Emergency officials in Boone County say a worker at a coal mine has been killed in an accident. A Boone County 911 operator says the death was reported at 10:05 a.m. Tuesday. State mine safety office spokeswoman Jama (Jay-muh) Jarrett says an excavator rolled into a ...

Coal giant Massey Energy Co. has obtained a court order barring 14 anti-mining protesters from returning to one of its southern West Virginia mines where the demonstrators were arrested in June. The protesters face $10,000 fines if they return to Massey's Twilight surface mine ...