And when the United Mine Workers set out 30 years ago to organize Harlan’s prosperous coal mines, pitched battles between “Bloody Harlan’s” miners and company police brought out the ...

Drama in the coal fields of Harlan County, Kentucky, assumes the proportions of American tragedy when Theodore Dreiser waves the crusader's flag. Sheriff deputies are paid by the mine owners ...

The House of Representatives Thursday passed a bill for the second year in a row that would weaken a safety protection for coal miners created after the workplace death ...