A 13-year-old boy in Orange County was injured when a firework exploded in his hand; he's expected to recover. The incident ...

Mike Lambert heard fewer illegal fireworks exploding in his suburban Honolulu neighborhood in the months after a chain of ...

In November 1988, a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Junko Furuta left work and pedalled home on her bike, like thousands of other students in the suburbs of Tokyo. But she never made it back. In the ...

SAN DIEGO — As holiday package thefts surge, videos of booby-trapped deliveries are trending on social media, but attorneys are cautioning consumers that retaliating against porch pirates could result ...

A: I have seen some of those videos as well. My reaction is that if someone is stealing from your porch, they should not be able to complain if if turns out to be a booby trap. I also read, if the ...

When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at most—only once every 100,000 years. But new research published in Physical Review ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution. Stars can live for millions to trillions of years ...

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BUSHWICK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A manhole explosion was captured on video on Thursday afternoon in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The explosion happened at 5:21 p.m. on Central Avenue between Myrtle Avenue and ...