With or without PTSD, vets can struggle with the celebratory sights and sounds. July 3, 2013— -- Samuel Askins spent 545 days as an infantryman in the U.S. Army in Iraq, witnessing numerous ...

The explosion sent shrapnel directly into the man's abdomen. A man has died in a tragic firework accident after a mortar shell exploded inside of a firework tube, sending shrapnel into the man's body ...

A Maine man has died after a fireworks shell he lit exploded.The state fire marshal's office says 57-year-old Timothy Whitney Sr., of Lewiston, died Sunday at a hospital. Fire investigators say the ...

A fireworks shell accidentally exploded on the ground, sending debris that killed a fireworks company employee in Quakertown on Saturday night, the Bucks County fire marshal determined Monday. Fire ...

An investigation into an explosion that sent debris into a crowd at a Southern California Fourth of July fireworks show determined that a malfunction involving a shell inside a mortar tube led to the ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa — A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said ...

The night sky will light up this Fourth of July weekend with dozens of fireworks celebrations across the Kansas City metro. The largest — and possibly the loudest — is likely to take place Saturday ...

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that bringing a fireworks shell to an airport TSA checkpoint is not a good idea. But one traveler did just that on Monday at JFK Airport, where he was ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Pyrotecnico, the company that executes the firework show at Shell Freedom Over Texas, says a lot goes into a big show like Saturday's. "There are hundreds of different effects ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- What does it take for Pyrotecnico to execute the fireworks show at Shell Freedom Over Texas each year? Planning, hard work and a lot of pre-show preparation. "The show takes ...