Donora, PA, an economically distressed borough of about 4,500 people situated in the heart of America's Rust Belt, has only a couple of claims to fame, or infamy. What it does not have, however, is a ...

Writer Ken Jaworowski returns to a fictional rural town as the setting for his second novel, "What About the Bodies" (Credit: Candice diCarlo). Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — This city, according to Americans with only a vague notion of it, is a down-home, run-down, industrial, beautiful, Catholic kind of place. It is progressive and conservative, ...

A group of outsiders in a once-thriving Rust Belt town form an unlikely friendship over a mutual love of cars. The drunkest countries in the world Stranded people during Hurricane Katrina in New ...