Pennsylvania has the largest inventory of abandoned mines. Millions of homes and buildings sit on top of them.

Pollard and a young granddaughter were looking for a lost cat when she went missing Monday evening. At about the same time, a ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) - The Westmoreland County Medical Examiner tells KDKA-TV that the body of the missing 64-year-old ...

Rescue workers search through the night in a sinkhole for Elizabeth Pollard, who disappeared while looking for her cat, in Marguerite, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 ... from where she had parked her car, ...

A Pa. court will decide ... get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines. Mine shafts can extend hundreds of feet beneath the surface and often ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The body of Elizabeth Pollard ... "We were made of several old coal mining towns and of course, Marguerite is one of them. And when people suffer, we all suffer.

Digging crews resumed work early Thursday in the effort to locate a woman who authorities fear died after falling into a sinkhole above an abandoned Pennsylvania coal mine. Fewer than a dozen ...

At about the same time, a sinkhole appeared roughly 20 feet (6 meters) from where she had parked her car, in an area above an old coal mine. The granddaughter was found safe inside the car hours ...

Cancel anytime. An abandoned coal mine is too unstable and unsafe for rescuers looking for a 64-year-old Pennsylvania woman who may have been swallowed by a sinkhole. Swaths of Pennsylvania and ...