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Authorities say a flying manhole cover injured a Baltimore fire department worker on the scene of an underground fire that caused several manhole explosions.
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Read More »Police: Body spray before cigarette lighting causes car explosion
Police in Maryland say a car blew up when a man inside lit a cigarette after spritzing himself with an aerosol body spray.
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Read More »House flattened, others damaged in Maryland explosion
WOODLAWN — A house was flattened and others were damaged when a fire and explosion rocked the structure in a Baltimore suburb. Baltimore County fire officials say no one was hurt in the explosion. Investigators say the house in Woodlawn ...
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Read More »Cause of Silver Spring apartment explosion still unknown
SILVER SPRING — Federal investigators found a disconnected vent pipe in an apartment building that exploded last year, killing seven people and injuring dozens. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the cause of the August 2016 ...
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Read More »Possible drug-related blast investigated at Md. federal lab
GAITHERSBURG — Police are trying to determine whether an explosion inside a Maryland federal laboratory that injured one person was the result of an effort to make drugs. National Institute of Standards and Technology spokeswoman Gail Porter says the explosion ...
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Read More »Family of 8-year-old killed in house explosion sues BGE
The parents of an 8-year-old boy who was killed following a “natural gas explosion” inside an East Baltimore rowhouse have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.
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Read More »Officials still investigating explosion near Baltimore courthouse
The source of a loud, booming noise from a trash can outside the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse in downtown Baltimore remained unclear Thursday despite reports of an explosion.
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Read More »D.C. Circuit upholds EPA’s retroactive veto of mining permit
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mines years after it was issued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. ...
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Read More »Charged Massey exec cooperating in blast probe
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Federal prosecutors investigating the West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 men widened their net Wednesday, filing criminal charges against a longtime Massey Energy executive who worked closely with former CEO Don Blankenship — a move signaling ...
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Read More »Report: Mining firm settles 29 wrongful death suits
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A mine company has settled wrongful death lawsuits with families of all 29 victims of West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch disaster, an attorney for the estates of two miners said Tuesday. Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources did not ...
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