Texas plant blast gives bereaved daughter a mission
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In the blink of an eye, Eva Rowe lost both her parents when a gasoline unit exploded at a BP refinery in Texas City, killing them and 13 others in the worst industrial accident in the United States for more than a decade.
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Death of senior Awami League leader, Mrs. Jebunnessa Ivy (widely known as Ivy Rahman), wife of former AL General Secretary, Mr. Zillur Rahman, and 19 others in a horrible grenade attack last Saturday shocked the conscience of the people.
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A vase of red roses sat in front of the church altar Saturday, flanked by portraits of Truitt Byers and a blue baseball cap with the logo for Dixie Crystals Â the brand of sugar produced by a refinery where the 54-year-old was killed in an explosion.
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What can you do to lend a hand in the wake of tragedy?
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As a father mourned the unimaginable &#151; the loss of five of his children in a fire that also devastated another family that shared his home &#151; a religious leader let him know that his pain was shared by many.
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DAVID, Panama, Dec. 26 -- A 12-year-old American girl, the sole survivor of a weekend plane crash, was aided by rescue workers for several hours through remote mountains and then airlifted to a Panamanian hospital where she was reunited Wednesday with anxious relatives.
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By Melissa Vargas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 9--HALTOM CITY -- When a resident near Spring Lake arrived home to  find a brick on her kitchen floor, a shattered window and $5,000 worth of her  belongings gone, she got mad.
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Madeleine V. Leckie Elementary School lost a student, a teacher and two parents in the terrorist attacks.
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An astronaut aboard the international space station went back to work Thursday even as he grieved for his mother, who was killed a day earlier when a train struck her vehicle.
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By Terry Lee Goodrich, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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Ondina Perez grew teary Friday as she recalled the day 30 years ago when a Cuban airliner exploded in flight over the island of Barbados, killing her pilot brother and the other 72 people aboard. Three decades later, Perez and other family members of those killed want the man sought for masterminding the explosion, Luis Posada Carriles, to face trial.
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DANVERS, Mass., Nov. 22 -- A chemical plant outside Boston blew up Wednesday with a roar so thunderous that people thought it was an earthquake or a plane crash, destroying two dozen homes in the tightly packed neighborhood but causing only minor injuries.
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Text of report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti  Kirov, 31 January: An investigation has been launched into the death of a serviceman belonging to a regiment guarding the Maradykovskiy [Maradykovo] plant for the destruction of chemical weapons in Kirov Region.
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HOUSTON, Dec. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- Victims of the explosions and fires that ripped through the Formosa Plastics plastic resins and petrochemical manufacturing plant at Point Comfort, Texas, on October 6, 2005 filed suit in the County Court of Law, Calhoun County, Texas on December 1, 2006.
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Daniel M. Tani's 90-year-old mother died in an auto accident this week, but he has no way of getting home until late January. He must grieve from more than 200 miles away Â in orbit, aboard the international space station.
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Text messages could soon be at the heart of a system to help people cope in the aftermath of disasters.
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Hundreds Gather in Mo. to Mourn Woman Whose Baby Was Cut From Her Womb After She Was Slain. Pallbearers bring out the casket of Bobbie Jo Stinnett from the Price Funeral Home in Maryville, Mo.