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MONTEREY PARK (KABC) — Authorities are investigating an apparent explosion at an LASD training facility in Monterey Park where at least three deputies were killed. The incident was reported just before 7:30 a.m. Friday at what looked to be LASD’s SEB compound, which houses the sheriff’s department’s special enforcement units and bomb squad. It appears the Sheriff’s Enforcement Bureau personnel …

At least three deputies were killed after an explosion was reported early Friday at an LA County Sheriff’s Department training facility in East Los Angeles. The explosion is believed to have occurred at the Biscailuz Center Training Academy on the 1000 block of North Eastern Avenue. The incident was reported at around 7:30 a.m. NewsChopper4 was over the scene where …

Barely a month goes by these days without the Yellowstone supervolcano hitting the headlines somewhere or other, and this one is no exception. It might be a swarm of Earth tremors or a minor steam-driven explosion that sets the hearts of news editors and disaster preppers racing. Or, on occasions like this, a new piece of research that sheds light …

Two of the strangest structures in the galaxy just got even stranger. Ballooning above and below the Milky Way‘s center like a massive hourglass, the mysterious Fermi bubbles loom large over our galaxy. These enormous twin orbs of superheated plasma have been gushing out of the galactic center for millions of years. Today, they span some 50,000 light-years from tip …

Eighty years ago today, at 5:29 am on the morning of 16 July 1945, in the state of New Mexico, a dreadful slice of history was made. The dawn calm was torn asunder as the United States Army detonated a plutonium implosion device known as the Gadget – the world’s very first test of a nuclear bomb, known as the …

NORTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — One disaster averted an even bigger one for this New Jersey family. Lina Delgado-Ramos, her husband, sister, cousin and their golden retriever fled their North Plainfield home to escape Monday night’s deadly flash floods — only for the house to explode spectacularly just hours later. “The storm saved our lives. We could have been inside, thinking …