Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

Betty Jean Hall, 78, a Kentucky-born attorney who fought to make coal mining jobs available to women and went on to serve as an administrative judge overseeing the government’s benefits review process ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, regional mines still provide jobs. The Department of Environmental ...