Sparklers held under a foam-clad ceiling likely ignited a deadly blaze that killed 40 New Year's revellers in a Swiss ski bar, authorities said on Friday, but the bar owner insisted that all safety ...

Many of the wounded were in their teens to mid-20s, police said. Swiss investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling flares atop Champagne bottles ignited the fatal fire at a ski resort when ...

The Swiss bar hit by a deadly fire in the early hours of New Year’s Day had not been inspected in five years, local authorities said Tuesday. Le Constellation bar, where 40 people died in the inferno, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A weekend shooting at a Jacksonville bar is raising new questions about safety after records show police have been called to the business more than one hundred times in just over ...

Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa about 60,000 years ago. The find marks the oldest known poison arrows and ...

Fireworks attached to bottles of Champagne sent up showers of sparks that appear to have ignited insulation in a bar. The blaze killed 40 people. By Ségolène Le Stradic Aurelien Breeden and Thomas ...

Investigators believe they have determined what caused a deadly bar fire that killed 40 people and injured more than 100 others. Beatrice Pilloud, the prosecutor general of the Valais canton in ...

Swiss authorities on Friday began the grim task of identifying the mostly young victims of a deadly New Year’s Eve bar fire that killed around 40 people and injured 119 revelers at a ski resort in ...

Traces of toxic plant compounds have been found on a handful of 60,000-year-old African arrowheads, providing the oldest chemical evidence that Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers used poison to bring down ...

A Carolina Beach woman has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal crash at a Wilmington bar early on Dec. 30, according to court records. Michelle Lane Masiello, 34, has been charged ...

During New Year's celebrations, a fire started in a bar at a Swiss ski resort and turned into a huge blaze that killed at least 40 people, and injured more than 100. The fire broke out at around 1:30 ...