The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department believes one of the brothers accidentally triggered the explosion with homemade fireworks.

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On Jan. 28, 1986, America witnessed a tragedy: the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger in the blue skies over Florida. The ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

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An elderly couple found dead in their home following an explosion in their garden and house fire have been named. Marlene Mumford, 84, and William Mumford, 90, died at the incident on Heol Fawr in ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police have detained those in charge of a steel factory in the Inner Mongolia region after an explosion killed four people and left 84 others hospitalized, state media said. The ...

Life is being breathed into the Long Island Sound. The shared New York-Connecticut waterway has reached its lowest levels of toxic, inhospitable “dead zones” in nearly four decades — and could mark a ...

His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it became an American institution. By Ben Sisario and Mark Walker Bob Weir, the guitarist and songwriter who ...

For a dead man, Space-Time Special Agent Romeo sure leads an interesting life. Playing as a crazy scientist's grandson in the third-person action adventure game Romeo Is a Dead Man, fighting grotesque ...

When the fire departments arrived, the building was already around 90 percent involved. There are many chemicals inside the structure due to the nature of the business. Fire officials say that there ...