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Authorities have revealed the latest details of the ongoing investigation into what caused a fire and explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas last month.

The last 30 animal shelters in South and West Texas will no longer end the lives of unwanted shelter dogs, cats, kittens, and puppies by gas chambers using carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide.

The State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in West, Texas will be open Sunday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The DRC will resume normal hours Monday, May 20.

Each time I visit the West Texas town of Albany, it seems that the locals mistake me for a resident.

I believe there are bonds formed in this life which should never be compromised or broken.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine invites applicants for the position of Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience.

Laredo's mayor was among a group of city officials who paid a visit to the city of West, Texas today.

Closing in now on Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day, those of us involved one way or another can remember all sorts of bravery and heroism.

Louisiana State Fire Marshal Butch Browning recently returned from West, Texas. West is the site of a fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 and injured 200 more.

Investigators have not ruled out an intentional fire being behind explosions at a fertilizer plant in the small town of West that left 15 people dead, the Texas fire marshal said Thursday.State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy said investigators were unable to rule out three possible causes, including a spark from a golf cart, an electrical short or an ... (more)

The PBF Energy refinery in Paulsboro, N.J., uses toxic chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid.

Investigators announced on Thursday the results of a probe into what caused last month's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.

A jagged bolt of lightning slashed through the darkened afternoon sky, commanding the undivided attention of the trio huddled beside a grave.

When the nine-story building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, 1127 people were killed.

A searcher in a protective suit walks through the blast zone of the fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday night in West, Texas Thursday April 18, 2013.

Drought woes have eased in the Midwest after a wet spring, but the far West, California in particular, are facing continued dry conditions.

Texas Fire Marshals made an announcement Thursday regarding the cause of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, that killed 15 people and injured hundreds on April 17.

The former mayor of a tiny West Texas town has pleaded guilty to stealing about $100,000 from the town treasury.

Tornadoes that struck a neighborhood in Texas left not just physical wreckage but scar the hearts of people as tornadoes destroy homes constructed through the volunteer initiative Habitat for Humanity.

With smoke rising in the distance, a law enformcement officer runs a check point at the perimeter about half a mile from the West Fertilizer Company April 18, 2013 in West, Texas.