Removal of radioactive World War II dials in eight acres of storage warehouses in Columbia, Marietta, Maytown and Mount Joy could cost nearly $2 million, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

The town of Ottawa, Ill., is banding together to honor the memories of watch dial painters who were poisoned by a radium paint in the town during the 1920s and 1930s. Piller’s father, William, is a ...

A century ago, radium in scant quantities was thought to be healthful. People sipped it diluted in water and applied makeup made with it. They consumed milk and butter laced with it and brushed their ...

In the 1920s, a group of women using radium to paint watch dials unknowingly sealed their fate, exposing themselves to a deadly substance that would forever change their lives. Radium Girls, now being ...

It’s a story that many New Jersey residents may not be familiar with – the story of young women in the 1920s who were sickened by factory conditions in the Garden State. Their story is being told in a ...

"Radium Girls" highlights Grace, Irene, and Kathryn who paint dials in the U.S. Radium plant and are instructed to finely point their brushes by molding the bristles with their mouths while painting.

The Battle Mountain High School theater group is putting on the play “Radium Girls” for three nights at Battle Mountain High School. The play opened Thursday and will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday and ...

In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...