On April 16, 1947, a fire aboard the cargo ship SS Grandcamp triggered one of the deadliest industrial disasters in American history at the port of Texas City. The vessel was carrying thousands of ...

WEST, Texas (Reuters) - A rail car filled with extremely hazardous ammonium nitrate did not cause the fiery explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant, investigators said on Tuesday, in their first ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency reversed its previous decision and approved additional funding Friday to help rebuild the small Texas town where an April fertilizer plant explosion leveled ...

WACO, Texas (AP) - A Texas paramedic who helped evacuate people on the night of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West has been arrested and charged with possessing a destructive device. It's ...

April 17 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1421, the sea broke the dikes at Dort, Holland, drowning an estimated 100,000 people. In 1521, the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Martin Luther after ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Investigators have determined that ammonium nitrate was the cause of the explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant last month that left 14 people dead and some 200 ...

Investigators have completed their scene investigation but not ruled out criminal activity as the cause of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed 15 people, officials said Thursday. The ...

WEST, Texas (AP) - It started as just a fire. But 911 calls following the Texas fertilizer plant explosion show it took only minutes for dispatchers to become swamped in calls from terrified and ...

Authorities said the fire that caused the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant in 2013 was a criminal act. Federal and state investigators said Wednesday that they're investigating who was ...

WEST, Texas — Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone ...