CHARLESTON, W.Va., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A West Virginia mine security chief was charged Monday with obstruction and lying in the federal probe of a Massey Energy Co. mine disaster, officials said.
Hughie E. Stover, 60, of Clear Fork was charged with two felonies -- making false statements to federal agents and obstructing a federal investigation -- in the probe of events at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 miners died in an explosion last April, the Justice Department said in a release.