According to officials, the incident occurred when the teen and his friends were exploring a horizontal mine shaft and attempted to rappel down a vertical section using household ropes.
Beamish Museum will hold an act of remembrance in its 1900s Pit Village chapel on Saturday to commemorate the disaster. There ...
A 16-year-old boy was rescued from a 50-foot-deep mine shaft by the Placer County Technical Rescue Team of the Cal Fire Nevada Yuba Placer Unit (NEU) and Placer ...
A teenager is pulled out from a mineshaft. Video of the harrowing rescue was shared by first responders in Placer County, ...
A 116-year-old serviette commemorating the West Stanley Pit Disaster which was discovered folded up inside a book has been ...
Pit inspector Frank Keegan was hailed as one of the heroes who saved 30 lives when 168 men perished in the West Stanley pit ...
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the ...
"Unearth" follows two pairs of siblings who set out to understand what the mine might do to their home. It will screen during ...
Zellweger’s Bridget is now a widow – and romanced by both Leo Woodall’s younger man and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s kindly teacher – ...
George Bathgate, a Loanhead resident, passed away at age 95 following 80 years of involvement in the Scouts in Midlothian and ...