WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - Wichita police say a man suffered critical injuries when he picked up an explosive object and it detonated. Officers responded at around 12:45 p.m. Friday to the report of a ...

Around 40 people are dead and around 115 others were severely injured after a fire broke out during a New Year’s Eve celebration at a bar in a Swiss Alps resort, authorities said Thursday. Calling it ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor. The blast registered as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake and was felt ...

A firsthand account of an explosion along the Venezuelan coast on Dec. 18 is raising questions about who may have been responsible for the attack and whether it was connected to the U.S.’s escalating ...

BRISTOL, Pa. (WPVI) -- A 71-year-old woman who is blind is recovering from severe injuries after an explosion last week at Bristol Health and Rehab Center that killed two people and injured 20 others.

An explosion in Castaic resulted in a shelter-in-place order being issued for several neighborhoods on Saturday. At 4:17 p.m. Saturday, emergency responders received reports of a possible gas leak on ...

Roads on the 5 Freeway were reopened after a gas line rupture in Castaic shut down lanes for several hours Saturday, causing major traffic delays. Los Angeles County Fire crews responded to an area ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Southern California Gas Co. crews on Sunday worked to repair and determine the cause of a rupture in a natural-gas ...

(Elmwood) -- Cass County, Nebraska authorities are investigating a deadly house explosion that occurred Saturday. In a release early Saturday afternoon, the Cass County Sheriff's Office says deputies ...

Time got away from them! New York City teachers have found that scores of teenagers can’t read traditional clocks after a cellphone ban in schools statewide — because students figured the skill would ...

DAMASCUS, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Eight people were killed in an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, Syrian state news agency SANA said. An ...