Pollard was last seen Monday evening near her home in the Marguerite community, where her car was later found parked. "It almost feels like it opened up with her standing on top of it," Limani said of the sinkhole, which rescuers believe formed suddenly.

Rescuers searched early Wednesday for a woman who went looking for her lost cat and apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine.

Rescuers desperately searching for Pennsylvania grandmother Elizabeth Pollard down a 30-foot sinkhole are fear the ground could further open up below them.

Officials are concerned that a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania is now more dangerous and unstable after a missing woman reportedly fell through it while babysitting her granddaughter.

Heavy machinery and sound-monitoring equipment are being used in the search for a Pennsylvania grandmother who is believed to have fallen through a sinkhole deep into fragile, unstable ground while searching Monday for her cat,

Police fear a woman in Pennsylvania who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed by a sinkhole.

First responders in Westmoreland County are searching for a 64-year-old woman who reportedly fell in a 30-foot sinkhole in Unity Township.

Authorities fear a grandmother who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed up by a sinkhole that recently opened up in a western Pennsylvania village. Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole in Marguerite on Tuesday morning but detected nothing.