Allentown explosion

(Newser) - Autopsies are planned Monday on the bodies of three people found dead after a car explosion on a street in downtown Allentown, Pa., in what authorities called a "criminal incident" being probed by federal, state, and local authorities. Three males were found dead after the 9:30pm Saturday blast,...

(Newser) - If the massive explosion that killed five people and damaged 47 buildings in Allentown Pennsylvania Wednesday was, as authorities suspect, a natural gas blast, it will be the third major gas explosion in the country since fall, the Wall Street Journal observes. That apparent pattern has revived fears that the...

(Newser) - A huge gas explosion in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Allentown last night destroyed two homes, set several other buildings ablaze, and forced the evacuation of two entire city blocks. An elderly couple who lived in one of the destroyed homes is unaccounted for, as are at least four others,...