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'About 60' people still unaccounted for in West, Sen. Cornyn says
Fort Worth Star-TelegramBREAKING NEWS UPDATE: WEST -- About 60 people are still unaccounted for after a fertilizer plant explosion in the small Central Texas town of West, Sen. John Cornyn said Friday. Twelve people have been confirmed dead, and 25 houses in the blast area...Tags: Barack Obama, Fertilizer, Companies and Corporations, Emergency Incidents, Chemical Industry
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Official: 12 bodies recovered after Texas blast
Updated 2:00 p.m. WEST, Texas (AP) — The bodies of 12 people have been recovered from the remnants of a tiny Texas farm town that was rocked by a roaring explosion at a fertilizer plant, authorities said Friday, confirming for the first time the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Fines, Fertilizer, Politics, Emergency Incidents
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Hagerstown man resentenced after case was remanded
A Hagerstown man was resentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Martinsburg by Judge Irene M. Keeley, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II. Robert John Summerville III, 31, was resentenced to 10 years in prison to be...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals, Allegany County, Punishment, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Chemical in Texas blast has a well-known deadly potential
The blast at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant on Wednesday night was so massive that investigators believe it probably involved a significant amount of ammonium nitrate, a chemical that some scientists say should be regulated as an explosive. In a report...
Tags: Fertilizer, Accidental Death, Emergency Incidents, Environmental Politics, Chemical Industry
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11 first responders among the dead in Texas fertilizer explosion
WEST, Texas -- Officials confirmed Thursday that 11 first responders were among the dead in a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that injured at least 160 and devastated a section of this small town. State public safety officials have declined to...
Tags: Fertilizer, Environmental Politics, Chemical Industry, Environmental Issues, Disasters and Accidents
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Arrests made in Brawley arson case
Four teenagers were arrested today in connection with the investigations into the rash of arson fires throughout the city in recent weeks. One suspect is 15 years old and three are 14 years old, and all are from Brawley, according to a press release...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Police Arrests
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Four Brawley teens arrested following arson investigation
Staff WriterBRAWLEY — City officials are relieved and shocked by the arrest of four teenagers Thursday on suspicion of arson in connection with a series of structure fires largely in the city’s downtown area. “I am very pleased that there has...Tags: Politics, Juvenile Delinquency, Public Officials, Police Arrests, Government
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Brawley reacts to arson arrests
Staff WriterBRAWLEY — Disbelief was the first thing that Alfonso Martinez felt when authorities woke him up in the middle of the night and told him that his business was on fire. “It’s just one of those things you don’t think is going to...Tags: Business
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Video images yield two possible Boston bombing suspects
BOSTON — Authorities have obtained clear images of the faces of two men with backpacks who they believe were acting suspiciously around the time of the Boston Marathon bombings, a potential breakthrough in the search to find who planted the deadly...
Tags: Barack Obama, Laws, Sports, Deval Patrick, BP Plc
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Boston Marathon bombs apparently rudimentary, officials say
BOSTON — The bombs that tore past the finish line of the Boston Marathon were probably made with simple kitchen pressure cookers packed with metal pellets and nails and hidden in black nylon bags, investigators said Tuesday. FBI lead...
Tags: Taliban, Times Square, Martin Richard, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Boston Marathon attack no excuse for media speculation
As if to provide a warning to commentators, prognosticators, ax-grinders, think-tankers and television analysts about the dangers of petty speculation, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof posted this thought on Twitter a few minutes after Monday's...
Tags: The New York Times, Periodicals, Religion and Belief, Islam, Sports
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Deadly explosions throw Boston Marathon into chaos
BOSTON — Two crude but deadly bombs ripped through crowds at the Boston Marathon on Monday, turning the finish line into a scene of chaos and carnage, killing 3, injuring at least 140 and closing down parts of central Boston. The back-to-back...
Tags: Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Road Running, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sports
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