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Feds to probe why alarms failed in W.Va. explosion
Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and ...
Chain blast feared before clean-up at La. site
Authorities are slowly moving some of the 6 million pounds of explosives improperly stored at a munitions recycling facility because they feared a ...
Vietnam War-era mortar shell blast kills 4 kids
A mortar shell left from the Vietnam War has exploded in a southern village, killing four children and seriously injuring five other people.
Charged exec cooperating in W.Va. mine blast probe
Federal prosecutors investigating the West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 men widened their net Wednesday, filing criminal charges against a ...
Utility worker pierced pipe before Mass. gas blast
A natural gas explosion that injured 18 people and damaged 42 buildings in Springfield's entertainment district was blamed Sunday on a utility worker ...
Mass. natural gas explosion damaged 42 buildings
Preliminary investigations show more than 40 buildings were damaged in a natural gas explosion in Massachusetts that injured 18 people, building ...
18 Chinese miners die in coal-gas explosion
A coal mine accident in China's southwest killed 18 workers and trapped five more on Saturday, the official Xinhua News Agency said. There were 28 ...
Gas blast levels Mass. strip club; 18 people hurt
A natural gas explosion in one of New England's biggest cities on Friday leveled a strip club with a boom heard for miles and heavily damaged a dozen ...
Prosecutor: No arrests made in deadly Indy blast
Investigators said Tuesday that no arrests have been made in connection with an Indianapolis house explosion that killed two people and destroyed at ...
Indiana home explosion investigated as homicide
The house explosion that killed two people and destroyed several homes in an Indianapolis neighborhood is now being investigated as a homicide, ...
2 workers shoulder blame for 2010 BP oil disaster
The manslaughter charges brought against two relatively low-ranking BP rig workers in the deadly Gulf of Mexico disaster may be as far as federal ...
Hundreds attend funeral for Indy blast victims
Hundreds of people turned out Monday for the funerals of a couple killed in an Indianapolis explosion — a teacher remembered for knitting gifts for ...
Co. looks for worker after oil rig fire in Gulf
The owner of an oil platform that caught fire after an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last week said Sunday that it has expanded its search for a ...
Correction: Gulf Rig Fire story
In a story Nov. 17 about an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously described the Bureau of Safety and Environmental ...
Explosion on bus in Kenya capital kills at least 5
An explosion on a bus in Kenya's capital killed at least five people and wounded 29 on Sunday, a police official and the Red Cross said.
Missing cat found 6 days after Indianapolis blast
A missing family cat has been rescued from the ruins of a home near the center of the deadly Indianapolis house explosion. Fire Capt. Rita Burris says ...
Defense lawyers say BP rig workers are scapegoats
While BP has resolved a sweeping criminal probe of its role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, two company employees charged in the ...
Residents in blast-shaken subdivision want answers
When a house two blocks away exploded with a deafening boom, the staggering force knocked Billie Chipman to the floor. The freckled 16-year-old hasn't ...
Experts: Analysis of Indiana blast could take time
Investigators looking for the cause of a deadly Indianapolis house explosion got more support for their theory that natural gas was a factor Wednesday ...
Investigators looking at appliances in Ind. blast
Investigators in the Indianapolis explosion that killed two people and decimated a neighborhood believe natural gas was involved and are focusing on ...
Indiana blast investigation focuses on natural gas
The search for what caused a massive, deadly explosion that rocked an Indianapolis neighborhood turned to natural gas Monday, with officials checking ...
Deadly blast devastates Indianapolis neighborhood
Splintered beams and boards on a piece of charred earth were all that remained Sunday where at least two Indianapolis homes were leveled in a blast ...
Authorities: 1 dead, 3 injured in NC hospital fire
Preliminary information indicates a fire at a North Carolina hospital that killed a patient and injured three workers occurred during a ...
Methane warnings ignored before NZ mine disaster
A New Zealand coal mining company ignored 21 warnings that methane gas had accumulated to explosive levels before an underground explosion killed 29 ...