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 ...

Osman Bah was driving his taxi through Midtown when an underground explosion shot four heavy manhole covers into the air. The blast near Lexington Avenue and 44th Street sent one of the metal covers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A weekend-long series of manhole explosions on Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights was finally resolved early Monday morning — after at least two cars had their undersides toasted and ...