Officers arrested Japhia Huhndorf twice last week. She's accused of having explosive nitroglycerin in her classroom, and helping students get high on chloroform. The investigating officers say ...

I found several crazy stories about nitroglycerin's (mis)use in East Central Indiana during the gas and oil boom of 1886-1910. One story involves Muncie’s ...

While searching for new hikes to try in San Francisco, Bay Curious listener Ryan Flynn stumbled across a pin on Google Maps for ‘The First Dynamite Factory in America.’ The pin marked a spot in Glen ...

The name was selected for the black Labrador retriever after the sheriff's office asked the community to submit suggestions on social media, according to a press release Wednesday from the sheriff's ...

Gunpowder was first used in 1679, to build an underground section of the Canal du Midi, a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The tunnel was 157 meters long. Nitroglycerin ...