Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirteen years after the 2013 West Fertilizer Plant explosion that killed 15 people, Central Texas is marking the anniversary of ...

WACO, Texas (AP) - A Texas paramedic who helped evacuate people on the night of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West has been arrested and charged with possessing a destructive device. It's ...

Before the West Fertilizer plant explosion a year ago, not much thought had been given to the devastating effects of such a catastrophe. The blast, which was equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of ...

WEST, Texas (FOX 44) – Central Texas is pausing on Friday in remembrance of the lives lost 13 years ago in the West, Texas plant explosion. On Wednesday, April 13, 2013, the explosion took the lives ...

The farming town and Czech community just north of Waco, known around the state for its kolaches, reels from last nights catastrophic fire and explosion, which left countless people injured and an ...

And let's turn now, briefly, to West, Texas, the scene of this week's fertilizer plant explosion. Many questions remain unanswered there. In fact, it's still hard to estimate how many people were ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency reversed its previous decision and approved additional funding Friday to help rebuild the small Texas town where an April fertilizer plant explosion leveled ...

WEST, Texas (KWTX) - On April 17, 2013, a powerful explosion at West Fertilizer Co. devastated the town of West, killing 15 people, 12 of them first responders, and injuring about 200 others. The ...

April 17 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1421, the sea broke the dikes at Dort, Holland, drowning an estimated 100,000 people. In 1521, the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Martin Luther after ...