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Following the death of a mine worker in East Tennessee, 6 News is taking a closer look at the dangers of the job.
Surveillance cameras at Pizza Di Marco captured several hooded suspects smashing through the front door of the restaurant at around 2 a.m. […] Remembering Knox Mine Disaster 66 years later ...
The miners were killed after a pair of blasts ripped through a now-closed Jim Walter Resources Mine No. 5 at Brookwood in 2001.
PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It’s been 65 years since the Knox Mine disaster. On January 22, 1959, the ice-filled Susquehanna River broke the roof of the river slope mine at Port ...
The 12 miners were remembered after the roof of the Knox Mine, near Pittston, collapsed and changed deep mining in Northeastern Pennsylvania forever.
Bill Best, local mining historian, led a walk Sunday to the site of the Knox Mine Disaster in Jenkins Twp. On Jan. 22, 1959, 12 men who died when the Susquehanna River crashed through the River ...
Monsignor John Bendik, left, blesses the Knox Mine Disaster momument outside the Baloga Funeral Home in Port Griffith during a 2015 ceremony. King’s College is set to host a screening of the ...
The seminal event of Anthracite Heritage Month, otherwise known as January – the Knox Disaster Commemoration – is next Sunday morning, Jan. 21, at the Knox Disaster Monument in front of… ...
At last year's memorial, Larry Spencer, international vice president for the United Mine Workers of America District 20, said the annual service represents a lasting commitment to remember those ...
Bill Best speaks at the final stop along the river trail, at the site of the Eagle Air Shaft, which served as an escape route for 33 miners trapped during the Knox Mine Disaster. Deacon Francis ...
He was known as a hard worker, but very notably, as a leader, thanks to his action in the Fraterville Mine Explosion in 1896, sometimes referred to as the Coal Creek Mine Disaster or Fraterville ...