Officials in one northeast Alabama city canceled their Fourth of July fireworks show Thursday after a technician was injured when a shell accidently detonated. “A firework shell unexpectedly detonated ...

A Maine fireworks company has temporarily been suspended from operating in Massachusetts after more than two dozen “highly hazardous” fireworks shells washed up on Chappaquiddick Island on Martha’s ...

Gary Souza learned how to play with fire when he was 12. His father, who ran the family’s California-based fireworks business, would drive out to the countryside to test new shells, taking young Gary ...