TOLEDO, OH (Toledo News Now) - Experts say quarries can be more dangerous than other bodies of water, and the two drowning incidents in two different quarries yesterday shine a light on those risks.

Quarries have proliferated in recent years in the Texas Hill Country – so much so that a stretch of land in Comal County has come to be known as "quarry row." Residents living near these facilities ...

Since the death a week ago of a Rhode Island teenager at Fletcher Quarry, the number of swimmers there and at other unsanctioned swimming holes has plummeted, according to a 17-year-old observer from ...

EDISON, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- They are enticing spots to cool off on a hot day, but quarries in eastern Pennsylvania are proving a deadly attraction for young people from New Jersey. As CBS2's Tony ...

GLOUCESTER – “QuarryArt” is a double-edged title. The show consists of, yes, art about quarries: 37 photographs by nine photographers, with various Cape Ann stone quarries as their subject. That’s the ...

PEN ARGYL (AP) — Slate is everywhere in the northeastern reaches of Northampton County. It crackles underfoot in yards. It adorns hills along the country roads. The outskirts of small towns such as ...

The source of marble for a statue of Apollo on the Greek island of Delos has been a mystery to art historians and archaeologists for decades. The stone's chemistry pointed geochemists to the southern ...