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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:27 pm Post subject: Pa. coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100309/ap_on_bi_ge/us_centralia_s_final_days_suit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100309/capt.5aedb23e5dcf403f91bd12c1929d0d66.centralias_final_days_suit_pack201.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=AOdRBSQYJ4FKkZtv1e757A--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="FILE - In this April 1981 file photo, U.S. Bureau of Mines' John Stockalis, right, and Dan Lewis drop a thermometer through a hole on Main Street in Centralia, Pa., to measure the heat from a shaft mine blaze that burns under the town. The few remaining residents of the Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a 'massive fraud' is being perpetrated against Centralia by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coal. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a "massive fraud" is being perpetrated by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of anthracite coal.</p><br clear="all"/>
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