How far would a wife go to keep $2M Ponzi scheme a secret?
Pharmacist Natalie Cochran killed her husband Michael with an insulin injection so he wouldn't learn about $2 million Ponzi ...
Fast Company12d
This Kentucky land was devastated by strip mining—now, activists want to bring the bison back
The mine shut down years ago, but the site, near the town of Roxana ... replace jobs and tax revenue lost with the decline of ...
Truthout12d
Appalachian Activists Reclaim and Rewild Land Slated as Site for New Prison
The group will return the land to Native stewardship, healing it from past mining and blocking prison expansion.
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Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
High Country News27d
The beautiful and awful Butte, Montana
It looked, to me, like mountaintop removal coal mining ... ever since I moved to Central Appalachia in 2014. Between the workers-camp architecture of the town’s low-slung houses and all the ...
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Aristotle Jones visiting Pulaski to deliver Appalachian Soul
It goes back to the coal mining history and the hard-working traditions of Appalachia ... I did they asked me to write a song about their town. Obviously, I need to find out more about the ...
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In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...