Coaltown

Coaltown retired with a record of 23 wins, six seconds, and threw thirds from 39 starts, with earnings of $415,675. Throughout his career, Coaltown was trained alternately by Ben Jones and his son Jimmy. Coaltown won stakes races at seven different ...

Downtown Madison, West Virginia, was once home to a vibrant collection of family-owned businesses, including a movie theater, a bank, a jewelry store, a two-story department store, and several beer joints. Now it is struggling to survive with many of ...

Craig and other coal-dependent communities in Colorado are starting to ask hard questions about their future as the vise on air pollution tightens. Photos by Allen Best. Hard questions for Colroado towns that have hitched their wagons to coal. by Allen ...

Smoke billowing from the blaze at the Coaltown of Balgonie bing could be seen for miles around, with people as far as Angus in the north and Edinburgh and the Lothians in the south seeing the black plume. A full investigation has been launched after ...

Fire crews were called to a village in Fife after a large fire broke out in a nearby tyre storage yard. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service confirmed a pile of tyres as large as 40 metres by 20m had gone on fire in Coaltown of Balgonie. Smoke from the ...

Emergency services were called to the incident at Coaltown of Balgonie, Fife, just after 7.20pm yesterday. Smoke from the site could be seen as far away as Dundee and Edinburgh. Firefighters tackled the flames, with a pile of tyres 40 metres by 20 ...