WESTERLY, R.I. (WPRI) — Alex McColl was at the golf course Thursday afternoon when he suddenly got a strange call from his brother. “He said, ‘You need to come home. A rock went through your roof,'” ...

Silence reigned as a handful of people stood on one side of the quarry at Luck Stone Corporation in Powhatan County, eyes fixed at a point several hundred feet away. Thirty seconds after a siren ...

Seventy-five years ago today, on July 9, 1948, 20 tons of explosives were used to bring down a granite hill in Missing Gorge in what was then a record for a commercial blast in the county. Rocks ...