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The recovery effort is beginning to show results.

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Eight-year-old Joseph Erskine needed weeks of treatment and a skin graft after a toy burst across his chest and hand - releasing a hot gel that can stick to the skin and cause severe burns. A warning ...

Forecasters are warning that expected subzero temperatures could cause trees to explode as a brutal cold snap is expected to wallop most of the country in the coming days. Trees may split and burst ...

Pete Crow-Armstrong's month-long molten hot streak continued Tuesday night with a three-run homer run against the New York Mets (CHC 9, NYM 6), the team that originally drafted him. Crow-Armstrong ...

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It blew up in her face. A West Virginia teen had to be hospitalized after getting scalded by a squishy toy — akin to the viral mystery dumplings or NeeDoh cubes — that had been mistakenly left in a ...

The 10-year-old schoolgirl, Violet, microwaved a popular toy, a knock-off NeeDoh, causing it to explode and severely burn her face. But when her Queensland father chose to warn other parents, he was ...