Appalachian Ohio shares the culture, history, and political problems of central and southern Appalachia.

The 1990 Census indicated that the poverty rate in central rural Appalachia was 27 percent.

In central Appalachia, so the saying goes, "there are gavel judges and gravel judges."

His prominence corresponded with the rise of the coal business in central Appalachia.

Settlement schools have played an important role in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of southern and central Appalachia.

In central Appalachia, some songs are still sacred.

They are higher still in the coal-mining areas of central Appalachia, which includes most of eastern Kentucky.

The spill has also worsened the economic disaster in this backwater pocket of central Appalachia.

And the struggle comes as mountaintop mining has emerged as the most common form of surface mining in central Appalachia.

The replacement coal would come mostly from central Appalachia, with some from the West.