Interstate 80 eastbound reopened Monday morning after being closed since Thursday because of a sinkhole in Wharton, New ...

By Michael Levenson A 64-year-old woman who fell into a sinkhole in a former coal mining community in western Pennsylvania on Monday evening, apparently while looking for her missing cat ...

Pennsylvania, like other Appalachian states, has many abandoned mines; there are at least two near the sinkhole where Pollard disappeared, according to the federal mining database. While there are ...

A massive sinkhole on the Interstate 80 ... One town in Morris County is no stranger to these mine subsidences. "Mining started around the Mount Hope area 300 years ago," said Mayor Sam Morris ...

Recommended Videos Axel Hayes, Pollard’s son, was at her house about half a mile (0.8 kilometers) from the sinkhole on Thursday ... a remnant of extensive coal mining that ended in the early ...

Sinkholes occur in the area because of subsidence from coal mining activity. Rescuers had been using water to break down and remove clay and dirt from the mine, which has been closed since the 1950s.

But when rescuers placed a camera in the hole, they saw a “modern” shoe that most likely was not a remnant of coal mining operations, he said. The sinkhole was found in Marguerite, an ...

WHARTON, N.J. (PIX11) — Interstate 80 eastbound reopened Monday morning after being closed since Thursday because of a sinkhole in Wharton ... once boasted an active mining industry.

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole ... dark hole where coal mining ended seven decades ago. After overnight ...