Head football coach David Woodard, like others in West, Texas, lost his home and his place of employment on a Wednesday evening five years ago, when an explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. plant rocked the town, killed 15 and …
Prosecutors plan to present evidence that the motive behind a 2012 deadly explosion that devastated an Indianapolis, Ind., neighborhood was collecting insurance money for mounting gambling and credit card debts. Monserrate Shirley, her then-boyfriend Mark Leonard and his brother, Bob …
A deadly explosion at a military flare plant in West Tennessee was an accident and not caused by a criminal act, federal investigators said Thursday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Saturday’s explosion at the Kilgore Flares …
A Filipino worker who was severely burned in a deadly explosion on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico last year is suing the platform’s owner and operator. Lawyers for Renato Dominguez, 53, filed the suit against Houston-based Black …
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. did not use $50 million it collected from ratepayers that was meant to improve its gas pipeline network in the decade leading to a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay area suburb, an audit …
Relatives of two victims of a deadly explosion on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico last year are suing the platform’s owner and operator, accusing the Houston-based company of exposing workers to dangerous conditions. A wrongful death lawsuit, …
The owner of a Muskogee, Okla., shopping center damaged during a deadly explosion seven years ago has sued a scrap metal plant. An insurance company, an engineering company and a claims and appraisal firm also are named as defendants in …