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And Willis views that as an asset in his run for the U.S. senate seat held by Democrat incumbent Joe Manchin. "It's going to take someone who is coming from the outside with fresh ideas about business, how the economy works and how currency flows, to make the changes that we need, " Willis is one of six Republican challengers - along with U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins, State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, Bo Copley and Jack Newbrough -all who will run in the May 8 primary.
An ex-coal company executive who went to prison for charges stemming from the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades kicked off his U.S. Senate bid Thursday evening, telling an audience he backs President Donald President Trump as a real opportunity for West Virginia. Ex-Massey Energy boss Don Blankenship received several ovations from more than 100 supporters present at his town hall-styled kickoff event in Logan.
Blankenship will face two other Republican candi... . Former Massey CEO and West Virginia Republican Senatorial candidate, Don Blankenship, greets supporters, Doug Smith, left, of Chapmanville, W.Va., and Wanda Smith, right, of prior to a town hall in Logan, W.Va., Thursday, Jan. ... .
The grandparents of 13 starved and tortured children say their son's family looked happy and healthy when they last visited California six years ago. Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship kicks off pro-Trump Senate bid in West Virginia with town hall-styled event.
"A longtime employee of Consol Energy Inc. is entitled to over half a million dollars in damages because of the coal company's failure to accommodate his religious concerns about a handprint scanner, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.[Beverly Butcher Jr.'s] understanding of the biblical Book of Revelation is that the 'Mark of the Beast' brands followers of the Antichrist, allowing the Antichrist to manipulate them. The use of Consol's hand-scanning system, Butcher feared, would result in him being so marked.
Former coal executive Don Blankenship jumped back on Twitter on Wednesday, renewing his feud with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on the day Blankenship was to finish a one-year prison sentence arising from the deadliest U.S. mine explosion in decades. Even before the U.S. Bureau of Prisons listed Blankenship as leaving a halfway house in Arizona, the ex-Massey Energy CEO rattled off a series of tweets.
Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell on Tuesday introduced legislation to maintain health benefits for retired union coal miners whose companies have declared bankruptcy in recent years. McConnell was among those who successfully worked last year to provide a four-month extension of health benefits that protected 16,000 miners whose benefits would otherwise have been cut off on Jan. 1. Democrats made a major push as well, as the government neared a shutdown last December.
In a Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 file photo, former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, left, walks out of the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse after the jury deliberated for a fifth full day in his trial, in Charleston, W.Va. A federal appeals court has affirmed the conviction of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in connection with the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades.
A federal appeals court has affirmed the conviction of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in connection with the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the opinion today, saying it found no reversible errors in trial rulings.
A federal appeals court on Thursday let stand former Massey Energy Co Chief Executive Donald Blankenship's conviction for conspiracy and one-year prison sentence related to his role in a 2010 West Virginia coal mine explosion that killed 29 workers. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Blankenship's argument that his conviction should be overturned because the trial judge made several errors, and because prosecutors did not properly allege the specific mine safety regulations he allegedly conspired to violate.
This Thursday June 23, 2016, file image provided by the Greenbrier shows flooding on the 17th green of the Old White Course at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., an area scheduled to host a PGA tour event two weeks later. The floods were voted the top story for 2016 in a poll of editors and broadcasters, who chose them in a year that also included tragic stories of substance abuse and an election in which voters emphatically supported Republican Donald Trump for president and Democrat Jim Justice for governor.
Dec 21 Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening down 12 points at 7,032 on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers. * The UK blue chip index closed up 0.4 percent at 7,043.96 points on Tuesday, helped by gains in Carnival and strength in the banking sector as Lloyds rose after a deal to buy a credit card business.
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... During the Labor Day weekend, when many people are celebrating and preparing for the upcoming school-year, Dakota Access, a... Donald Trump has announced that Steve Bannon-former head of the online racist platform Breitbart-will be a senior adviser in... There's no doubt that if you're charged with a crime, it's good to be rich.
Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship are hoping to convince an appeals court their client was wrongly sent to prison. Blankenship ran the coal company that owned West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine, where a 2010 explosion killed 29 men.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, center right, accompanied by Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., center left, speaks at an event at Johnstown Wire Technologies in Johnstown, Pa., Saturday, July 30, 2016. Clinton and Kaine are on a three day bus tour through the rust belt.
Peabody Energy Corp. is set to pay President Barack Obama's Harvard Law School mentor $435,000 this year to help the bankrupt coal producer challenge the administration's signature environmental law. The payments to Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert and legal icon -- spanning May to December this year -- were disclosed in a legal filing tied to Peabody's bankruptcy proceedings.