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 ...

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 ...

The night a Central Texas town exploded On April 17, 2013, a tragedy unfolded in a the town of West, Texas, as an explosion erupted at a seed and fertilizer storage facility.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Investigators have determined that ammonium nitrate was the cause of the explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant last month that left 14 people dead and some 200 ...