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Texas firefighters focused concern on toxic gases

WEST, Texas (AP) -- When they saw 30-foot flames licking the sky inside a massive fertilizer plant, firefighters in this tiny Texas town rushed to evacuate nearby buildings and raced...

news / nation Wed, May 15, 2013 - 7:08am

Update: Fire out hours after fuel barges explode in Ala.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Firefighters on Thursday extinguished a huge blaze that erupted hours earlier when two fuel barges exploded in Mobile, Ala., leaving three people with critical burns and...

news / nation Thu, Apr 25, 2013 - 11:21am

DPS: 12 bodies recovered after Texas plant blast

WEST, Texas (AP) — A Texas law enforcement official says 12 bodies have been recovered following a massive explosion that leveled a fertilizer plant. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt...

news / nation Fri, Apr 19, 2013 - 8:52am

A fire burns at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas after an explosion Wednesday April 17, 2013. (APMichael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News)

Fertilizer plant explosion devastates West, Texas, multiple deaths (video, photos)

WEST, Texas (AP) -- Rescue workers searched rubble early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and...

news / nation Thu, Apr 18, 2013 - 6:30am

An unidentified marathoner is reunited Monday with loved ones near Copley Square following an explosion in Boston during the city’s annual marathon. AP Photo/Winslow Townson

Family members frantically seek word from loved ones as blasts rip through Boston Marathon

CHICAGO — Far-flung family members, co-workers and friends frantically used social media, cellphones and even a “people finder” website Monday to try to learn the fate of participants and spectators...

news / nation Mon, Apr 15, 2013 - 11:18pm

UPDATE: Boston police: 3rd explosion at library

BOSTON (AP) — Boston police say there's been a third explosion in the city, following two blasts near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed two people and...

news / nation Mon, Apr 15, 2013 - 4:05pm

A runner gets a high-five from the crowd of Wellesley College students lining the course during the 117th running of the Boston Marathon in Wellesley, Mass., Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Three local runners reportedly safe after Boston Marathon explosion

WILLMAR – Three local runners are reportedly safe after running today in the Boston marathon, where explosions killed at least two people and injured 49. Kandiyohi County officials confirmed that...

news / local Mon, Apr 15, 2013 - 3:22pm

In this image from video provided by WBZ TV, spectators and runners run from what was described as twin explosions that shook the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 15, 2013, in Boston. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/WBZTV)

Update: Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line

Update 3 p.m. At least two explosions occurred at 2:50 p.m. near the finish line at theBostonMarathon, injuring dozens of spectators. Eagle-Tribune reporter Jill Harmacinski heard two explosions. She said,...

news / nation Mon, Apr 15, 2013 - 2:20pm

25 die in Mexico oil company office building blast

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Rescuers searched for survivors and authorities promised a thorough investigation after an office building blast killed 25 people and injured 101 at the headquarters of Mexico's...

news / world Fri, Feb 01, 2013 - 7:29am

Fatal explosion caused by LP gas leak on Big Kaniyohi Lake near WIllmar, Minn.

WILLMAR -- An explosion and fire Wednesday at a home on Big Kandiyohi Lake that killed a Lake Lillian man was caused by an LP gas leak. Kandiyohi County Sheriff...

news / local Sat, Mar 03, 2012 - 6:00am

Investigators said fatal fire was caused by LP leak

WILLMAR -- Investigators said this afternoon that an explosion and fire at a rural Lake Lillian home that killed Daniel Ray Rustad, 64, on Wednesday was accidental. Kandiyohi County Sheriff...

news / local Fri, Mar 02, 2012 - 4:14pm

Lake Lillian, Minn., man dead in Big Kandiyohi house explosion, investigation continues

WILLMAR -- The man found dead in a house on Big Kandiyohi Lake is Daniel Ray Rustad, 64, of the Lake Lillian area. The name was released this afternoon by...

news Thu, Mar 01, 2012 - 1:46pm

A house explosion occurred Saturday at 10087 20th Street SE near Clara City. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Woman survives blast in rural Clara City, Minn., being buried under debris of 2-story house

CLARA CITY -- When emergency crews arrived at a rural Clara City farm house around 3:45 a.m.

news / local Mon, Aug 15, 2011 - 12:00am

Woman survives explosion of rural Clara City home

CLARA CITY -- A rural Clara City woman was seriously injured, but is alive, after being pulled out from the rubble of her two-story home after it exploded early Saturday...

local Sun, Aug 14, 2011 - 5:47pm

No injuries or livestock lost in Villard pig farm explosion

VILLARD -- No one was injured and no livestock lost in an explosion and a fire reported around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday at the Paul Fiedler pig farm in rural Villard...

news / region Wed, Feb 02, 2011 - 9:25am

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