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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Preliminary figures show 19 coal miners in the U.S. were killed on the job in 2012, down from 21 the previous year.

West Virginia led the nation with seven coal mining deaths

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LUSK, Wyo. (AP) — A South Dakota man and a woman from Georgia are dead after a head-on collision in eastern Wyoming.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol said 66-year-old Sandra Frazier's Dodge Caravan crossed over into oncoming traffic on U

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead says more may need to be done to combat the state's high workplace fatality rate.

Mead told a meeting of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Industry Safety Alliance on Tuesday that new state workplace safety legislation might not be enough to reverse Wyoming's ranking as one of the most dangerous states for workers

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UNDATED (AP) — The powerful weather system that raked the Midwest is now blamed for 12 deaths, the latest three in the South.

Officials in eastern Tennessee say powerful storms packing high winds that stripped roofs and flattened trees also killed at least three people

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BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — At least one person has been killed in southwest Missouri as possible tornadoes whipped the Midwest, causing numerous injuries and significant damage.

Lt. Dana Eagan of the Dallas County Sheriff's Office says one person was killed and 13 others injured when a possible tornado hit a mobile home park south of Buffalo

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A spokesman for Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was severely injured in a shooting spree earlier this year, said Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, was scheduled to fly in the Reno air show on Friday — the same day a plane at that event crashed into the crowd of spectators and killed 10 people.

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Heavy rains in Carbon County last night washed out portions of Wyo 130, about 20 miles southeast of Saratoga that resulted in a single vehicle to drive into a washout section of the highway, killing four members of a family.

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