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West Virginia Chemical Plant Blast Spurs Stay-Inside Order

BELLE, W.Va. (AP) — An explosion that injured four people at a West Virginia chemical plant and shook surrounding homes prompted authorities to impose a shelter-in-place order early Wednesday. It happened after 10 p.m. Tuesday at the Chemours plant in …

Bootleg Liquor Kills 126 People in Eastern India

Bootleg liquor laced with toxic methanol killed 126 people and sickened dozens more who bought the illegal brew at small shops in eastern India, officials said Thursday. Police arrested seven suspected bootleggers. Thousands of relatives, many of them wailing, gathered …