A 17-year-old boy was killed after a high-powered, illegal firework exploded in a backyard — rocking a neighborhood with a blast so powerful residents thought it was a bomb. The explosive detonated ...

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German authorities say at least 19 people were injured, four seriously, after a fireworks show went awry at a fair in the western city of Düsseldorf. Fire squad and emergency services deployed after ...

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An unpermitted fireworks barge that exploded, injuring a half-dozen people in Alabama. A man police say shot fireworks at people injuring them along a Delaware beach. An illegal neighborhood fireworks ...

CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (WLS) -- A man was injured after being struck in the head by a firework in Crystal Lake Saturday night, the Nunda Fire Protection District said. Authorities responded at about 9:16 ...

A 13-year-old boy died after being struck by a firework in northwestern Minnesota on Friday night, according to the Mahnomen County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office says they were called to ...

Authorities in Massachusetts said the Wareham resident was “setting off fireworks at the beach when one exploded in his face” Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...