At 11:15 on the morning of March 9, 1976, Virgil Coots, a foreman at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, called to the ...

Sacrifices made to win WWII weren't just overseas.Contributions to manufacture iron and other essentials for the war effort were produced on the home front.At ...

On the morning of December 21, 1910, just four days before Christmas, the town of Westhoughton in Lancashire woke to the shock of a subterranean thunderclap. It was the sound of the Hulton Colliery ...

A coal mine explosion in Iran left at least 38 dead and 14 others missing as rescue operations continued this week. A sudden methane gas leak triggered the explosion at the coal mine in Tabas, located ...

TEHRAN, Iran -- An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Rescuers on Monday recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 38, officials said.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo released by Iranian Red Crescent Society, miners and police officers are seen at the site of a coal mine where ...

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