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 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - He was brought out of the darkness of the Sago Mine in the middle of the night, comatose and battered — and straight into the unyielding glare of unwanted fame.
But today, nearing the anniversary of the Jan. 2 explosion and 41-hour entrapment that killed 12 of his friends, Randal McCloy Jr. is keeping a low profile.
The 27-year-old survivor of West Virginia's worst mining accident in four decades can walk and talk again, but neither he nor pregnant wife Anna is granting interviews, says family spokeswoman Aly Goodwin Gregg. His family has also closed ranks, on doctors' advice.
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