Some of the miners at Crandall Canyon -- including one of the trapped men -- apparently were concerned about working in the area of the collapse, a source told CNN.

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The case roiled the community amid allegations that more students should have been charged accusations that Ohio's attorney general pledged to look into and led to questions from a much wider audience online about the influence of the local football team, a source of a pride in a community of 18, 000 that suffered massive job losses with the collapse of the steel industry.

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And banks are not the only source of potential trouble: AIG, a big American insurer, had to be bailed out shortly after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.

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