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139 men and boys - some as young as only 12 years of age - lost their lives in the underground explosion at the Combs Colliery on July 4, 1893. It is one of the worst mining disasters in history, with ...

A Tennessee mother-of-two is now in stable condition with “stitches and bite marks over her entire body” after attempting to intervene when her two pit bulls mauled her toddlers to death Wednesday.

A village is trying to put its toppled Christmas tree back up as quickly as possible after it was "deliberately" cut down. The tree, which had stood in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, for more than ...