In the heart of Pennsylvania elk country, Eric McCarthy and his client, Don Reichel, woke before sunrise to scour the forest for so-called “brown gold,” a rack of freshly shed antlers to add to ...

The hunt started deep in the woods at a site rumored to hold old homesites, colonial pieces, and Civil War relics. For a while, the best finds were buttons, lead scraps, spikes, and scattered signals.

The FBI either lied to a federal judge about having video of its secretive 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroyed the video to prevent a father-son team of treasure hunters from ...

Late afternoon light was starting to fade on the Western Pennsylvania hillside where Eric McCarthy was tracking a bull elk when a masked man stepped out from behind a tree and pointed a semiautomatic ...

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HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — Organizers of a planned dig in Hampton say they hope to shed light on a little-known chapter in Civil War history. The two-acre archaeological dig is at the site of what was called ...