A man lit gunpowder into a replica cannon used as a paperweight, and it exploded in his hands, deputies in Washington said. The 41-year-old was in Port Orchard on Sunday, July 14, when the explosion ...

At a ceremony to mark 250 years since Henry Knox hauled cannons across the Berkshires, officials and history buffs said the ...

LENOX — Following a one-year, $18,900 restoration, the 1862 replica Union Army cannon returned Saturday morning to Lilac Park. The artillery piece and its carriage were restored by Civil War Cannons, ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — PERRYSBURG, Ohio - After a few months away, the USS Constitution replica cannons were unveiled with a new look at the city's rededication ceremony Saturday. City leaders, veterans ...

COATESVILLE, Pa. — When Jeff Stafford was 8, he was infatuated with “things that go bang.” One day, in his father’s auto body shop, he fashioned a toy cannon from a small piece of pipe and some scrap ...

SAN ANTONIO – The Alamo Trust has unveiled a new exhibit that will give visitors a new perspective of how large the Alamo compound was and the importance of a particular cannon. The “18-pounder Losoya ...

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A man was flown to a Seattle hospital with severe hand injuries after setting off a replica cannon, deputies said. plherrera Getty Images/iStockphoto A man lit gunpowder into a replica cannon used as ...