Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate. He's trying again as a DemocratFormer West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, this time as a Democrat.
The Supreme Court rejects an appeal from former coal company CEO Don BlankenshipThe Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from former coal company executive Don Blankenship, who argued that major news outlets defamed him by calling him a โfelon.โ.
Court records show political pressure behind Fox programmingThousands of pages of documents in a recent lawsuit show that Fox News' top executives sometimes were actively involved in politics rather than simply reporting or offering opinions on it.
Court: News outlets didn't defame ex-coal CEO BlankenshipAn appeals court has ruled that Fox News, CNN and other news outlets didnโt defame former coal executive Don Blankenship when they referred to him as a โfelon."
W.Va. journalist let go after reporting on abuse allegationsA West Virginia journalist lost her job after she reported about alleged abuse of people with disabilities in state care.
3 WVa reporters who condemned interview of ex-coal CEO firedThree newspaper reporters in West Virginia say they have been fired after publicly criticizing their company's video interview with a convicted former coal executive.
4 ex-coal mine officials cleared in Kentucky fraud trialA federal jury has cleared four former coal company officials who were accused of skirting dust rules in two underground Kentucky mines.
Former coal company execs to go on trial for skirting rulesA group of former coal company officials are going on trial in Kentucky next week.