CHARLESTON, W.Va., May 17 (UPI) -- A new federal indictment Tuesday against the security chief of a West Virginia coal mine where 29 miners died last year alleges he lied to investigators.
The U.S. attorney's office said in a release the superseding indictment handed up in Charleston accuses Hughie Elbert Stover, 59, of Clear Fork, W.Va., of making false statements in a sworn deposition before the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration team investigating the cause of the deadly April 2010 explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch Mine.