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CHARLESTON, W. Va. – The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration filed a lawsuit Friday accusing a mining company of not cooperating in its investigation into a mine fire that killed two workers earlier this year. The lawsuit alleges Aracoma Coal Co., a subsidiary of Massey Energy Co., is deliberately …

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s governor vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed adult motorcyclists to ride without helmets, saying the social and economic costs would simply be too high. A group calling itself American Bikers Aiming Toward Education of Michigan had persuaded the Legislature to change the state’s mandatory …

NEW YORK – ABC’s “World News Tonight,” scrambling to fill the gap left by its injured anchor, Bob Woodruff, is facing further instability: Elizabeth Vargas, Woodruff’s co-anchor, is pregnant. Vargas and her husband, singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, are expecting their second child in late summer, they announced Friday. The couple have …