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State and local police are investigating an explosion that happened outside a home in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, early Sunday morning. Tyngsboro police responded around 6:45 a.m. Sunday to 63 Coburn Road for a report of a device being detonated outside of a residence. Residents of the home were evacuated, while the Tyngsboro Fire Department and the Massachusetts State Police bomb squad…

One year later, Farmington, Maine is remembering a sudden moment of loss. On the morning of Sept. 16, 2019, a propane explosion destroyed a nonprofit’s office building there, killing a fire captain and injuring seven others inside. On Wednesday, Farmington firefighters, Maine Gov. Janet Mills and others from the local community gathered for a brief remembrance event in honor of…

The town of Farmington, Maine, looks back on the deadly explosion that leveled a nonprofit a year later.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the bodies of two missing crew members of a dredging boat were found Saturday following an explosion a day earlier in the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas

Beirut residents were for years unaware of the massive “bomb” festering inside their seaport

Iran’s top diplomat is accusing Western countries of taking advantage of Beirut’s massive explosion last week that killed and injured thousands to dictate their own policies on Lebanon

A powerful image of a nurse has emerged in the wake of the devastation caused by a massive explosion in Beirut last week.

The massive explosion in Beirut last week has left many children displaying symptoms of trauma

Two people are now confirmed dead following a natural gas explosion that destroyed three row houses in Baltimore and sent seven people to the hospital, authorities said Tuesday.

Excavators began sifting through the rubble at the site of the Beirut explosion, one week after a port warehouse exploded, killing 163 people and leaving 250,000 homeless.

Lebanon’s state news agency says the justice minister has resigned in protest, the third Cabinet member to do so following last week’s devastating explosion in Beirut.

Lebanese officials targeted in the investigation of the massive blast that tore through Beirut sought to shift blame for the presence of explosives at the city’s port, and the visiting French president warned Thursday that without serious reforms the country would “continue to sink.”

Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut are focused on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertilizer in a waterfront warehouse, while the government ordered the house arrest of several port officials

Rescuers freed a man trapped beneath rubble from a large explosion on Beirut. The man had been trapped for 16 hours.

A massive explosion shook Lebanon’s capital Beirut Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 100 people and injuring thousands.

Drone footage captured the explosion that gutted a business and injured 12 firefighters in downtown Los Angeles. The firefighters are recovering after they escaped the burning building over the weekend.

A paper mill disabled by a dramatic explosion caught on video last week has resumed production with two of its three paper machines, officials said Thursday. The restart of Pixelle Specialty Solutions’ Androscoggin Mill in Jay followed a blast that happened in a large, kettle-like digester in which a slurry of wood chips, water and chemicals are transformed into pulp. An...

People in Jay, Maine, are cleaning wood fiber off roads and lawns after a large explosion at the Pixelle Paper mill. On Wednesday afternoon, a part of the mill that produces pulp, called a digester, exploded. Luckily nobody was killed or severely injured but the potential economic damage could linger if the mill stays offline too long. “You just took…

After an explosion at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, the economic impact has locals worried.