By Suzanne Struglinski and Steve Fidel Deseret News WASHINGTON -- House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., wants the Justice Department to investigate whether there was a conspiracy among Crandall Canyon Mine officials to withhold information from the government about a "bounce" at the mine before the Aug.

By Deseret Morning News editorial Sens. Orrin Hatch and Robert Bennett are right. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee report on the Crandall Canyon Mine disaster that last summer killed nine men should not be treated as the final word on the matter.

By Jasen Lee Deseret Morning News The 163 coal miners at the West Ridge Mine in Carbon County were breathing a sigh of relief Wednesday following a two-day work stoppage at the mine near Price.

By Patrick O'Driscoll HUNTINGTON, Utah -- For more than 90 minutes Tuesday, mine co-owner Robert Murray took on climate scientists, earthquake experts, union activists and the media as he sought to explain Monday's cave-in and what he was doing to rescue the six trapped men.

By Sara Israelsen, Ben Winslow and Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News HUNTINGTON, Emery County -- It could be days before rescuers are able to reach six miners trapped 1,500 feet underground in a collapsed mine shaft.