A passenger in the GMC Sierra was injured by the air bag. The pickup had an open recall for a defective air bag.

Ford is recalling about 100,900 Ranger pickups—its third major 2025 recall—after side curtain airbags were found at risk of tearing in crashes.

SAN DIEGO — As holiday package thefts surge, videos of booby-trapped deliveries are trending on social media, but attorneys are cautioning consumers that retaliating against porch pirates could result ...

A: I have seen some of those videos as well. My reaction is that if someone is stealing from your porch, they should not be able to complain if if turns out to be a booby trap. I also read, if the ...

Since 2014, 11 people have been killed and hundreds injured by exploding automobile airbags manufactured by Takata, a Japanese company. According to a New York Times article, the company knew about ...

In 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division decided to dispose of the carcass using dynamite. Florence will celebrate the 55th ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

Federal regulators have opened a formal investigation into a Chinese manufacturer whose air-bag parts have exploded during crashes and are now tied to six deaths. The company, China-based Jilin ...

Two recent fatal accidents involving Chinese-made air bag parts are renewing warnings from regulators over counterfeit components that can explode during a crash. The National Highway Traffic Safety ...

Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local conditions. By Joshua Rapp Learn The first crater was found in 2014 in the far ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at most—only once every 100,000 years. But new research published in Physical Review ...