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Blasting at NYC subway site breaks windows
Blasting at the construction site for a new subway line shattered windows and sent smoke billowing up to the street on Tuesday, but no injuries were ...
Nuke plant chief after tsunami: 'This is serious'
The command center at Japan's stricken nuclear plant shook violently when hydrogen exploded at one reactor, and the plant chief shouted, "This is ...
Yemen officials: 6 killed in 2 separate explosions
Security officials in Yemen say explosions in two marketplaces in different parts of the country killed six people on Friday. In the first incident, ...
W.Va. dedicates Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial
On the heels of a West Virginia coal mining death, families of the 29 men killed in the Upper Big Branch mine dedicated a memorial Friday to their ...
NY house explosion kills teen, injures 4 relatives
An early morning blast leveled a two-story house in a rural part of western New York on Tuesday, killing a 14-year-old girl and injuring her parents ...
AP IMPACT: Gas pipeline safety valves resisted
The bulldozer was clearing land outside a day care center in Hapeville, Ga., when it broke open a buried 1-inch pipeline. The escaping gas ignited ...
AP IMPACT: Gas line safety valves resisted
The bulldozer was clearing land outside a day care center in Hapeville, Ga., when it broke open a buried 1-inch pipeline. The escaping gas ignited ...
Explosion shuts down oil pipeline in Turkey
An explosion and fire have shut down a pipeline that carries oil from Iraq to world markets, an official said Saturday. No one was hurt in the blast.
At least 95 killed in Nigeria tanker truck fire
A truck carrying fuel veered off the road into a ditch, caught fire and exploded in Nigeria's oil-rich delta on Thursday, killing at least 95 people ...
With fire out, focus now on Ohio train crash cause
A train that partly derailed and exploded north of downtown was traveling below the recommended speed before the crash, and its operators noticed no ...
Ohio freight train derails, causing fiery blast
Exploding freight cars full of ethanol made for a dramatic early morning scene in Ohio's capital on Wednesday, but officials said the train derailment ...
Blast heard at mall in Nigeria capital; none hurt
An official says an explosion has occurred near a building of popular shops in Nigeria's capital. National Emergency Management Agency spokesman ...
'Suspicious' blast destroys UK house, kills child
A suspected gas explosion reduced a house to smoking rubble, killed a 2-year-old boy and left a man seriously burned in northwest England on Tuesday, ...
Blast at beer garden in northeast Nigeria wounds 9
Officials say there was an explosion at a beer garden in Nigeria's northeast that wounded nine people. Bauchi state police chief Mohammed Ladan said ...
Blast at Opryland Hotel does $750,000 in damage
Damage was estimated Wednesday at up to $750,000 as a result of a gas explosion at the sprawling Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
Coast Guard: Similarities in Texas, NJ hoax calls
The Coast Guard believes there could be a link between a hoax distress call reporting a yacht explosion off New Jersey earlier this month and a mayday ...
APNewsBreak: Prosecutors say Alpha mines safer
Alpha Natural Resources has significantly cut its accident and injury rates in the six months since a landmark $210 million settlement that spared the ...
1 dead, 3 hurt in blast south of downtown LA
Authorities are trying to determine the type of business operating in an industrial workshop south of downtown Los Angeles where one person was killed ...
Explosion in steel plant in south India kills 11
An explosion in a state-owned steel plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has killed at least 11 people, police said Thursday. At least ...