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SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) – Homemade explosive devices blew up inside of a mobile home, nearly killing a 22-year-old Springfield Township man. Police said the young man was making the homemade ...

The ancient art of creating fireworks has gone high tech with big shows now launched by computers. One amateur fireworks maker in the Adirondack Forest of New York still keeps up the old craft. As ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A man died overnight at a dog park in Aurora after an accidental explosion involving homemade fireworks, according to the Aurora Police Department in a ...

The family of a 35-year-old man who died in a fireworks explosion is warning others about homemade devices. Last month, Jesse Owen Thornton of the Puna district in Hawaii died while crafting a bottle ...

(KRON) — A 54-year-old Novato resident was arrested after homemade fireworks being set off in San Rafael caused a small vegetation fire Tuesday evening, according to the San Rafael Police Department.

Police unions and doctors' associations are calling for a ban on the private use of pyrotechnic devices, which cause injuries ...

As the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, the celebration turned into tragedy in Germany. Two young men, both just 18 years old, lost their lives in a fireworks-related incident in Bielefeld.

Though bottle rockets and Roman candles are now legal in Michigan, the thrill of the big bang still has left some residents to their own devices. Reports of people injured after incidents with ...

Germany's Sparkasse bank suffers second heist Train and station thefts in Germany decline, police report Police face high ...