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Gov. Joe Manchin gives a hug to Delorice Bragg, wife of mine fire victim Don Bragg, after signing mine safety legislation at the Capitol in Charleston Thursday. State lawmakers passed the legislation unanimously just days after a Jan. 19 mine fire killed two men, and about three weeks after an explosion at another mine resulted in the deaths of 12 miners.