GILBERT, W.Va. -- After generations of bootlegging, direct descendants of the Hatfields have teamed with the McCoy name to produce legal moonshine in southern West Virginia with the state's blessing - ...

The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and ...

The infamous feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families may have had a genetic component. A number of West Virginia McCoy descendants have a rare inherited disease which can cause intense, immediate ...

After generations of bootlegging, direct descendants of the Hatfields have teamed up with the McCoy name to produce legal moonshine in southern West Virginia with the state’s blessing – the start of a ...

The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and ...

These photos show family members of Rita Reynolds, who like her are related to the McCoy family of Hatfield-McCoy feud fame, and have been affected by Von Hippel-Lindau disease. The family tree, ...

My ancestors were Appalachian hillbillies – Scots-Irish settlers with large families and quick tempers. Family clans separated into smaller groups called sets, derived from the Scots septs. They were ...

The History Channel made its own history with "Hatfields & McCoys." The miniseries drew the biggest audience ever for a nonsports event—twice. More than a century later, the storied feud is as much ...

It’s said that all the planets in our solar system only line up nearly perfectly within our sky every 13.4 trillion years. A rare cosmic event I will never be around to see myself. Yet I felt the ...

It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield ...