Across major U.S. cities, an invisible danger waits below street level - exploding manholes that strike without warning. These violent incidents send flames and heavy metal lids hurtling skyward, ...

WASHINGTON -- The great concern in the nation's capital these days is not the imminent demise of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty or the ethics of stem cell research. It is, instead, the fear of ...

The Georgetown mini-dig is done. More than five years after an epidemic of exploding manholes prompted an overdue overhaul, the District's oldest neighborhood has a thoroughly modern circulatory ...

An exploding manhole flung concrete and debris into the air, nearly striking a woman and two grandchildren in New York state on Easter Sunday, according to ABC 7 Eyewitness News. Lisa Davis and her ...

There was indeed an explosion on Seventh Avenue earlier this afternoon, alongside the Condé Nast Building. It was indeed an exploding manhole cover, and indeed no one was hurt — or, for that matter, ...

A manhole exploded underneath an occupied New York City MTA bus, sending the nearly 300-pound iron plate cover up through the floor of the bus and hitting a passenger sitting on the bus Tuesday. The ...

Part of a lawsuit the South Carolina NAACP filed against the state Department of Education can proceed, according to a ruling from the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

BUSHWICK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A manhole explosion was captured on video on Thursday afternoon in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The explosion happened at 5:21 p.m. on Central Avenue between Myrtle Avenue and ...