Police believe the blast was caused by the teen, identified as Alexander Arana, handling homemade or illegal pyrotechnic ...

A 17-year-old boy died in an explosion triggered by fireworks Wednesday evening in South Los Angeles, according to ...

A bomb squad was called to the scene to help with the investigation, police said.

A teen who died while handling what police said could have been homemade fireworks that exploded in the South Los Angeles ...

A fireworks accident left a teen dead in South LA overnight, officials said. LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles teen was ...

The search is on for the source of “a large quantity of illegal pyrotechnic devices” that killed a teenager in the Vermont ...

The Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad continued its investigation Thursday into the death of a 17-year-old boy in a fireworks explosion in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Vermont Knolls.

Overloading of a containment vessel used by the LAPD bomb squad to destroy illegal fireworks was the cause of a late June explosion that rattled a South Los Angeles neighborhood and left 17 people ...

A 17-year-old boy was killed after a high-powered, illegal firework exploded in a backyard — rocking a neighborhood with a ...

A teenage boy was killed Wednesday night in a fireworks explosion in the backyard of a Los Angeles home, according to multiple reports. Witnesses reported hearing the blast around 9 p.m. and saw smoke ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles police chief says a catastrophic fireworks explosion that injured 17 people and rocked a neighborhood last month was likely caused by miscalculations from bomb ...