Mountain residents unhappy to discover crude oil in their wells

Sunday, October 19, 2003

DORTON, Ky. -- When Rodger and Melissa Bentley noticed that the well at their eastern Kentucky home was filled with a bubbling crude, they didn't exactly run off to tell relatives they had struck it rich.

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