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New Conagra chief executive John Brase is mapping a turnaround that includes price increases on frozen meals, hot dogs and sausage, a $40 million brand investment and a review of the company's 5,500 product SKUs after the company reported…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READThe New York City Department of Investigation has opened an inquiry into a Midtown Manhattan high-rise where two supporting columns buckled this week, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday. The 37-story building at 235 East 42nd Street, the…
2026-07-11 · 3 MIN READWorkers at a 37-story Manhattan building formerly used as the Pfizer headquarters self-evacuated Tuesday morning after observing support beams buckling between the 21st and 22nd floors, prompting the FDNY to evacuate nine surrounding…
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READThe co-owner of a Maine lumber mill died Thursday from injuries he sustained in a May 15 fire and explosion at the facility, bringing the fire's death toll to three, state officials said Friday.
2026-07-03 · 3 MIN READMore than 10 months after Nippon Steel acquired U.S. Steel for $14.9bn, the company has announced no plans to develop clean-fuel production at its three steel plants in Pennsylvania's Mon Valley region, residents and advocates say, even as…
2026-07-02 · 4 MIN READFour crew members were injured Monday when a Coast Guard helicopter crashed during a routine training flight in Alaska, the service said.
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READAn explosion at Qatar's largest natural gas facility killed 13 workers and injured approximately 66 others Sunday, according to authorities. The blast occurred at the Ras Laffan industrial zone as the plant restarted production after a…
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READApproximately two million bees escaped Sunday after a truck carrying their hives overturned near Mauriceville, Texas, prompting emergency officials to warn nearby residents to remain indoors while beekeepers worked to contain the swarms.
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READSerious chemical accidents in the United States are increasing in frequency and deadliness, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data submitted to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. The analysis found 131…
2026-06-19 · 4 MIN READLos Angeles city officials ordered residents near a 500,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood to shelter in place Wednesday after a fire engulfed the roof and triggered an ammonia leak, according to the…
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READAn 18-year-old teenager died Wednesday after being thrown from a horse-drawn carriage in New York's Central Park, according to police. The horse bolted away from its driver, who had dismounted to take a photograph of the passengers, a…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READNovelis will restart production Wednesday at its aluminum-rolling plant in Oswego, New York, nine months after a fire shut the facility and disrupted automotive supply chains, the company said. The plant is the largest U.S. supplier of…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READSeveral floors of the Pentagon were placed on lockdown Thursday after building systems detected an air quality issue, prompting a hazardous materials response from Arlington Fire & EMS, officials said.
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READThe National Transportation Safety Board said the captain of a United Airlines flight from Venice, Italy, was flying too slow and too low before the Boeing 767 struck a light pole and a tractor-trailer while landing at Newark Liberty…
2026-06-04 · 3 MIN READ
Blue Origin said Tuesday that the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a test firing last week at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station did not damage the launch pad's fuel tanks or other critical ground infrastructure, though a lightning…
2026-06-02 · 3 MIN READA federal judge on Monday postponed the civil trial over the 2024 collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge after a flurry of last-minute settlements resolved most remaining claims, including all pending lawsuits over the deaths of…
2026-06-01 · 3 MIN READRescue crews resumed the search for nine people presumed dead Wednesday after a chemical tank ruptured at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. paper mill in Longview, Washington, in one of the deadliest U.S. industrial accidents in years.…
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READThe Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office said Tuesday that the May 15 fire and explosion at Robbins Lumber in Searsmont that killed a volunteer firefighter and injured a dozen others was accidental and began at the base of a silo. The…
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READFire officials in Garden Grove, near Los Angeles, said a damaged chemical tank has a crack that could lower the risk of a catastrophic explosion, but an evacuation order for about 50,000 residents remains in effect with no timeline for…
2026-05-25 · 3 MIN READAuthorities in Orange County, California, said a damaged tank holding methyl methacrylate no longer poses a risk of a catastrophic explosion, and they lifted evacuation orders for about two-thirds of the roughly 50,000 people who had been…
2026-05-25 · 3 MIN READSouthern California officials ordered evacuations for about 40,000 residents near a damaged chemical tank in Garden Grove, Orange County, as firefighters worked to prevent a leak or explosion over Memorial Day weekend. Orange County Fire…
2026-05-25 · 3 MIN READInvestigators were combing through a Staten Island shipyard on Saturday after a fire and explosion killed one civilian and injured more than 30 firefighters and other first responders, officials said. The fire broke out Friday afternoon in…
2026-05-25 · 3 MIN READOrange County fire officials partially lifted an evacuation order Monday for roughly 34,000 residents near a damaged chemical tank at a Garden Grove aerospace plant after pressure inside the tank dropped, eliminating the risk of a major…
2026-05-24 · 3 MIN READAuthorities in Garden Grove, California, lifted evacuation orders for roughly two-thirds of the 50,000 residents displaced by a damaged chemical tank at a GKN Aerospace facility, after an inspection found a crack that relieved pressure and…
2026-05-24 · 3 MIN READOrange County, California, officials on Monday partially lifted evacuation orders for roughly 34,000 residents living near a damaged tank of methyl methacrylate, a highly flammable liquid, after falling temperatures and a crack in the tank…
2026-05-24 · 5 MIN READEvacuation orders were lifted Monday night for roughly two-thirds of the 50,000 residents displaced by an overheating chemical tank at a Garden Grove aerospace plant, after authorities determined the risk of a catastrophic explosion had…
2026-05-24 · 4 MIN READA chemical tank at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California, cracked and sparked an emergency evacuation order, NPR reported. Orange County fire officials said about 50,000 residents remained under the order as emergency…
2026-05-24 · 3 MIN READFire officials in Southern California said Sunday that a crack discovered on a damaged chemical tank could lower the risk of a catastrophic explosion, but evacuation orders remain in effect for some 50,000 residents and there is no…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READSouthern California authorities ordered evacuations extending into the Memorial Day weekend for about 40,000 residents after a chemical tank at a Garden Grove company site overheated and began venting vapors, officials said. Fire officials…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READAuthorities in Orange County, California ordered about 40,000 residents to evacuate as crews tried to cool an overheated, pressurized chemical tank at a Garden Grove facility. No injuries were reported after the tank began venting vapors…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READInvestigators searched a Staten Island shipyard Saturday for the cause of a fire and explosion that killed a civilian and injured more than 30 firefighters and other first responders a day earlier. The blast occurred Friday afternoon after…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READOne person died after a fire and two explosions at a New York City shipyard on Friday, officials said. Firefighters and other first responders were among the injured, and the fire department said a fire marshal and a firefighter were…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READFirefighters in Staten Island responded to a report of a fire and smoke at a shipyard Friday afternoon, when an explosion occurred and killed one civilian while injuring more than 30 firefighters and other first responders, officials said.…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READA fire and two explosions at a New York City shipyard on Friday killed one civilian and injured 36 others, most of them firefighters and other first responders, officials said. The second explosion occurred while a firefighter and a fire…
2026-05-22 · 3 MIN READOne person died after a fire and two explosions at a New York City shipyard on Friday that injured 36 people, including most firefighters and first responders, officials said. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said more than 200 firefighters remained…
2026-05-22 · 3 MIN READA 56-year-old woman died Monday night after stepping out of her parked SUV and falling into an open maintenance hole near Fifth Avenue and East 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, police and utility officials said.
2026-05-19 · 3 MIN READA firefighter was killed and at least 11 other people were injured Friday when a massive fire and explosion tore through the Robbins Lumber mill in Searsmont, Maine, triggering an all-hands emergency response from across Waldo County.
2026-05-16 · 3 MIN READA 27-year-old volunteer firefighter was killed and at least 11 others were injured when a massive fire and explosion tore through a silo at a lumber mill in rural midcoast Maine on Friday. Andrew Cross, a member of the Morrill Volunteer…
2026-05-16 · 4 MIN READA massive fire and explosion at a lumber mill in Maine’s midcoast region killed a firefighter and injured at least 11 other people Friday, authorities said. The firefighter was found dead at the mill after flames spread through Robbins…
2026-05-16 · 3 MIN READA 27-year-old firefighter, identified as Andrew Cross, was killed in a fire and explosion at a lumber mill in Maine’s midcoast region. Officials said the blast and flames also injured at least 11 others as communities in Morrill honored…
2026-05-16 · 3 MIN READAn explosion at a coal mine in central Colombia killed nine miners and injured six others who were recovering in a hospital, officials said Tuesday. The blast happened Monday inside the Carbonera Los Pinos mine in Sutatausa, about 50 miles…
2026-05-06 · 3 MIN READAn explosion at a coal mine in central Colombia killed nine miners and injured six others on Monday, officials said. Cundinamarca Gov. Jorge Emilio Rey said on X that 15 miners were working inside the Carbonera Los Pinos mine in Sutatausa,…
2026-05-06 · 3 MIN READAn explosion at a coal mine in central Colombia trapped at least twelve miners on Monday, authorities said, with three others managing to escape on their own.
2026-05-05 · 3 MIN READAt least twelve miners were trapped after an explosion in a coal mine in central Colombia on Monday afternoon, officials said. The governor of the Cundinamarca province, Jorge Emilio Rey, said three miners escaped on their own and one was…
2026-05-05 · 3 MIN READA massive explosion leveled a home in Queens, New York, early Thursday, injuring eight police officers who were responding to a call about a knife-wielding man inside. Police body camera video showed the blast hurling officers across the…
2026-05-01 · 3 MIN READA massive explosion at a home in Queens sent several New York City police officers flying through the air early Thursday as officers responded to a call about a man with a knife and the smell of gas, the NYPD said. Police treated eight…
2026-05-01 · 3 MIN READWorkers in Rio de Janeiro resumed construction of the stage for Shakira’s free concert next weekend at Copacabana Beach after a worker’s death halted the work the day before. Police said a 28-year-old locksmith, Gabriel de Jesus Firmino,…
2026-04-28 · 3 MIN READUkrainians who work at the Chernobyl site said a Russian drone strike on Feb. 14, 2025, damaged the plant’s protective New Safe Confinement structure. They said the incident underscored how Russia’s war has disrupted assumptions about…
2026-04-26 · 4 MIN READA chemical leak at a silver recovery business in Institute, West Virginia, killed two people and sent about 30 others to hospitals on Wednesday, officials said. Kanawha County emergency management director C.W. Sigman said a reaction…
2026-04-23 · 3 MIN READAn explosion at a well site in Etoile, Texas, triggered a large fire that was visible for miles and led to some evacuations, authorities said Tuesday. The fire was still burning early Tuesday but was not spreading, and officials said there…
2026-04-22 · 3 MIN READA chemical leak at a silver recovery plant in Institute, West Virginia, killed two people and sent about 30 others to hospitals, officials said Wednesday. Authorities said the leak involved a chemical gas reaction during a process…
2026-04-22 · 3 MIN READAn explosion at a natural gas or oil well site in Etoile, Texas, triggered a large fire and precautionary evacuations on Monday. Authorities reported no injuries, and air quality is being monitored.
2026-04-21 · 3 MIN READA U.S. Coast Guard search team spotted an overturned cargo vessel Saturday near Saipan while searching for a missing ship with six crew members, the Coast Guard said. The HC-130 Hercules crew saw the overturned vessel early Saturday, about…
2026-04-18 · 3 MIN READOSHA has cited three subcontractors for safety violations connected to the July 21, 2025, death of a worker building Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas. A federal watchdog group said one of the companies was owned by a donor to President…
2026-04-14 · 3 MIN READThe roof over a stairwell at a parking garage being built at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia collapsed suddenly on Wednesday, killing one person and leaving two others missing and presumed dead, authorities said. Mayor Cherelle Parker…
2026-04-09 · 3 MIN READA miner was rescued Wednesday after being trapped for nearly 14 days following a collapse and flooding at the El Rosario mine in Sinaloa, northern Mexico, authorities said. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also confirmed that one miner…
2026-04-09 · 3 MIN READPanama authorities closed the Bridge of the Americas over the Panama Canal after a fuel truck exploded at the base of the span, killing one person and injuring two firefighters, according to the Fire Department. The blast occurred around 4…
2026-04-08 · 3 MIN READInvestigators said federal findings released this week tie two deadly natural gas explosions in Jackson, Mississippi in January 2024 to underground gas pipes that pulled loose from fittings as Yazoo clay soil expanded and contracted. The…
2026-03-27 · 3 MIN READSouth Korean rescue workers recovered the remains of 14 people from a charred auto parts factory in Daejeon after an explosion and fire that injured at least 59 others, officials said. The fire was reported at about 1:18 p.m. Friday, and…
2026-03-22 · 3 MIN READA U.S. Marine Corps investigation found that a “one in a million” malfunction during a live artillery demonstration over Interstate 5 at Camp Pendleton last October sent shrapnel onto the freeway and struck two California Highway Patrol…
2026-03-19 · 3 MIN READPennsylvania regulators asked an administrative law judge to order UGI Utilities Inc.’s gas division to pay $2.6 million in civil penalties for a 2023 chocolate factory explosion that killed seven workers. The Public Utility Commission…
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