Cawood was unafraid to challenge the region’s powerful coal industry as an attorney and one-term state legislator.

Stephen C. “Steve” Cawood, an Eastern Kentucky lawyer who championed coal miners, clean water and better schools, died Oct.

The deadly project killed more than 750 workers, the company scrambling to bury the dead before anyone knew they were gone.

Abstract: With the development of ground observation technology, noncontact localization of disordered goaf can be realized, which is the key to suppressing ground disasters and guiding government ...