Don Blankenship, a former coal executive who served a year in prison for conspiring to violate mine-safety laws before a 2010 mine disaster, is running for Senate in West Virginia, a GOP official said, adding another candidate to the field of Republicans challenging Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. Mr. Blankenship, who was chief executive officer of Massey Energy Co. at the time of the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that killed 29 people, has maintained his innocence on charges that he conspired to violate safety laws in...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 29, 2017 20:26 UTC