What happens after a mountaintop is blasted off to mine coal inside? Watch Battle for Blair Mountain on Aug 14 at 8pm.
A son remembers his 81-year-old dad who cops say was beaten to death by three teens. HLN's Vinnie Politan reports.
The son of an 81-year-old man who was fatally beaten Sunday after attending his granddaughter's wedding in Lynchburg, Virginia, said he holds no animosity toward the three teenagers who are being held as suspects.
A daylong hostage standoff ended late Wednesday when an armed, disabled man wheeled himself out of a post office in Wytheville, Virginia, and was taken into custody, police said.
According to Wytheville, Virginia Mayor Trent Crewe, an armed man took five people hostage.
While East Coast travelers recovered Monday from a nor'easter that stranded thousands, a winter storm taking aim at the Midwest threatened to give travelers there a headache later in the week.
U.S. trees are exploding in brilliantly colorful fall foliage this year in many regions, thanks to stellar growing conditions and excellent temperatures, say experts.
Get out the coats, boots, and shovels; people in some parts of the country are in for it this winter, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
Directional drilling was developed in 1929, but horizontal oil drilling became cost-effective and technically feasible only about five years ago.
Standing atop an island cliff, Ed English looks out over the Strait of Belle Isle. "In March," he says, "this looks like peppered porridge -- a sea of ice floes speckled with seals." Now, on a soft summer evening, it's a salty blue stew flecked with white froth from waves and breaching whales. In the distance float the glacial fragments that give this part of Newfoundland (newfun-LAND) its nickname: Iceberg Alley.
The pumpkins made all the difference.
Newspapers from America to India, South Korea and the UK have expressed shock at the killing of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech University.
Winterlike weather will persist in the Northeast on Wednesday, with freezing rain probable in parts of New England.
You're driving up the East Coast and admiring the fall colors. But something seems off.
Set against the foothills of the Appalachians above the Chattahoochee River, Atlanta watches over the fertile red clay of Georgia.
It's the moment every air passenger dreads: standing alone at an empty carousel with the growing realization that their bag has gone missing.
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Look to the hills to leave behind the summer heat and, in the coming weeks, to bask in the glory of fall. August is the perfect month to take advantage of the beautiful ridges and refreshing breezes of higher altitudes. Check out these two great destinations, and plan your own escape to the mountains.
Scattered rain was forecast in the Northeast early Monday, while isolated thunderstorms were possible along the Carolina and Georgia coast as a cold front moved across the region.
Snow fell around parts of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and the middle Appalachians on Tuesday, closing schools and causing traffic accidents in North Carolina.
The remnants of Hurricane Jeanne moved north Tuesday, leaving collapsed buildings, flash floods and floating coffins in its wake.
Wet, wintry weather is forecast for much of the East, Southern Rockies and Southern Plains Thursday, while dry conditions dominate the western two-thirds of nation.
A decade ago, Alabama's state pension fund made an unusual investment, pouring over $100 million into what was to become the largest golf construction project in history. The result? The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, an immense network of 378 holes on eight sites throughout the state, all designed by renowned course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr., who died two years ago at 93.
You have to go camping only once to know that the right gear is what separates the awesome adventure from the outright disaster. But finding that gear--How light must it be? What materials are best...
FROM THE BLACK coal trains sliding like pythons through the Appalachian foothills to double-stack convoys speeding just-in-time cargoes from Chicago to Los Angeles, America's railroads are bound fo...
^ As never before, immortality is for sale. What kind? The kind that comes when a donor cements his name to an institution: Stanford University, Carnegie Hall, Rhodes Scholarships, the Pulitzer Pri...
With the temperature at 22 degrees, Dawn Flakne, 26, a computer engineer, set out one sunny December morning from the Gunflint Lodge, near the Minnesota-Ontario border, to explore Minnesota's Super...
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