BECKLEY, W.Va. -- A West Virginia-based convenience store chain pledged Tuesday to donate $50,000 to Remember the Miners, a nonprofit group that raises money and awareness for coal miners and their families.

Bob Huggins, West Virginia University men's basketball coach and honorary chairman of Remember the Miners, accepted the pledge Tuesday from Little General Stores in Beckley, according to a news release.

CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the group charged with commercializing medical inventions by the Clinic’s doctors, has received its largest-ever gift, $11 million.
The vast majority of the donation, $10 million, comes from West Virginia billionaire James Justice II, a coal and farming company executive who ranked No. 375 on Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, The Plain Dealer reported.
The remaining $1 million was from Dr. Thomas Graham, chairman of the Innovations group and a premier hand surgeon who often operates on professional athletes. Graham and Justice struck a friendship at the historic Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, which Justice bought in 2009.

Remember The Miners and the West Virginia Coal Foundation are pleased to announce that $25,000 has been awarded through the Remember the Miners Scholars Program in a partnership providing scholarships to coal miners and their dependents.

Morgantown, WV (PRWEB) November 30, 2011 Remember The Miners and the West Virginia Coal Foundation are pleased to announce that $25,000 has been awarded through the Remember the Miners Scholars Program in a partnership providing scholarships to coal miners and their dependents.

by Ry Rivard

Daily Mail Capitol Reporter

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The $230,000 deal the West Virginia Coal Association has to brand the Civic Center basketball court for 10 years is only the newest tie between the industry and the state's sporting world.

The industry-sponsored "Friends of Coal" floor at the Civic Center has drawn criticism from an environmentalist and raised questions about why the deal with the association wasn't bid out. The Civic Center is a public building owned by the City of Charleston. A Civic Center official said last week the city wasn't required to bid the deal out.

by The Associated Press

The Associated Press

For more than 90 years, the coal-fired power plant in Glen Lyn, Va., has been churning out electricity and contributing to local prosperity. Of late, it has generated nearly a quarter of the revenue for the $1 million budget of the town.
Yet when the plant ultimately shuts down to comply with new federal air pollution regulations by the end of 2014, says Town Manager Howard Spencer, so too might the community of 200.
"If the town lost all of that revenue," he says, "we would struggle to even continue to be incorporated."