Miner Trapped in Flooded W.V. Coal Mine

Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine.
All other members of the crew were accounted for at the Rolling Thunder mine about 50 miles from the state capital of Charlston.
The crew hit an unknown pocket of water about three-quarters of a mile into the mine.
Rolling Thunder is one of 11 underground mines operated by Tennessee-based Alph Metallurgical Resources.
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The federal Office of Management and Budget has issued guidance to agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, on streamlining their regulatory work.
The Trump administration in January issued an executive order directing all agencies to remove 10 federal rules for every new one established.
The new guidance covers the removal of “facially unlawful” regulations, meaning their removal wouldn’t require notice and comment.
Such removals are covered under the Administrative Procedure Act’s “good cause” exception. Unlawful regulations, the administration says, are ones that are inconsistent with the “single, best meaning” of the authorizing statutes.
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Three employees of a San Antonio, Texas, landscaping business were shot and killed by an assailant, who later died by suicide.
It is unknown if the shooter was an employee, but the city’s police chief says the incident “was not random.”
Residents of the area were advised to shelter in place while the suspect was at large.
A SWAT team and canine units found the gunman dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a nearby woods.
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