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A 78-year-old New Jersey man was seriously hurt when an explosion rocked his home after he put a spray paint can in the oven and turned on the heat, fire officials say. The identity of the Long Branch resident wasn’t immediately released but at least one neighbor described him as a recluse. He was heard talking to himself as...

The number of people who died as a result of a house explosion in Pottstown, Pennsylvania grew to five Friday afternoon, authorities said.

Authorities believe a gas leak led to an explosion Friday morning that killed at least 43 people at an under-renovation hotel in Havana, Cuba.

At least 10 people were taken to hospitals, some critically injured, after an explosion and a fire erupted at apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland, Thursday morning, consuming homes in a fireball and collapsing a building, officials said.

Three homes in one Brooklyn neighborhood need to be demolished after a fiery explosion blew out their structures early Friday morning. Investigators who responded to the Bath Beach community are looking into what exactly sparked the blast that destroyed several homes and rocked neighbors out of their beds. The first calls to 911 came in at 7:11 a.m. for reports…

Six people were injured early Wednesday morning after an explosion at a Brooklyn building led to a fire that quickly spread to nearby structures. Myles Miller reports.

A Russian court has ordered five people to remain in pre-trial detention for two months pending an investigation into a devastating blast in a coal mine in Siberia that resulted in dozens of deaths.

An explosion rocked an apartment building in suburban Atlanta, causing the three-story complex to partially collapse and leaving four people with minor injuries.

A dirt bike rider allegedly set off a commercial grade explosive in front of a Brooklyn apartment door, blowing out windows and at least one door before riding around and smashing car windshields in the neighborhood early Friday, the borough’s district attorney says.

A dirt bike rider allegedly set off a commercial grade explosive in front of a Brooklyn apartment door, blowing out windows and at least one door before riding around and smashing car windshields in the neighborhood early Friday, the borough’s district attorney says. A report about the blast at the three-story Madison Street building in Stuyvesant Heights came in...

An underground explosion engulfed a Queens sidewalk, sending flames shooting several feet into the air and injuring a man who happened to be standing on the grate at the precise wrong moment, surveillance video exclusively obtained by NBC New York showed.

An explosion on the sidewalk happened as a man was heading into a store in Queens. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

Afghan authorities say a bomb exploded near a girls’ school in a majority Shiite district of west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, many of them young pupils between 11 and 15 years old

A massive fireworks explosion that left two people dead in Southern California earlier this week caused at least $3.2 million worth of damage

Firefighters were able to free a horse surrounded by flames and smoke after an explosion rocked an entire neighborhood in Ontario, Calif., on Tuesday.

A gas explosion at a condo unit in the Bronx has left 10 people injured, six of whom are children, fire officials said. Marc Santia reports.

The man believed to be responsible for the Christmas Day bombing that tore through downtown Nashville blew himself up in the explosion, and appears to have acted alone, federal officials said Sunday.

Surveillance footage inside a store captured the moment a vehicle exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day

The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to search for suspects in connection with the explosion that rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas morning.