Tremont NewsLocal news for Tremont, PA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Coal company charges a first for attorney general- April 25, 2008 Violations at the R&D Coal Co.'s Buck Mountain Slope mine in Schuylkill County were so egregious, officials say, that the state attorney general's office was pressed to do something it had never done before: Launch a criminal investigation of a mine fatality.Following a grand jury presentment, the state attorney general on Wednesday filed involuntary manslaughter and other charges against company owner David Zimmerman, his son and foreman Steven Zimmerman, both of Pine Grove, and miner...http://www.topix.net/city/tremont-pa/2008/04/coal-company-charges-a-first-for-attorney-gen... Three Charged in Fatal Coal Mine Explosion- April 16, 2008 Tremont Township, Pa. Three Schuylkill county men face charges of involuntary manslaughter as the result of an October 2006 explosion which killed a worker at a Tremont Township coal mine. via WHTM-TV Harrisburghttp://www.topix.net/city/tremont-pa/2008/04/three-charged-in-fatal-coal-mine-explosion?fr... |