Gas Explosion Levels Boston Home, No Injuries Reported

Published November 03, 2010

| Associated Press

BOSTON -- A utility official says a home in Boston exploded after construction crews accidentally struck a natural gas line.

There were no immediate reports of injuries.

NStar spokeswoman Caroline Allen says the explosion occurred around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. She says a contractor for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission was installing a water main at the intersection of Danny Road and Reynolds Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood when the crew hit the gas line.

Gas was released into the home and it exploded.

Broadcast reports Wednesday morning showed the house completely flattened with debris spread around the area and a plume of smoke rising from the wreckage.

The house is not far from Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's home.

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No Serious Injuries After Calif. Inmates Brawl

Published November 02, 2010

| Associated Press

NORCO, Calif. -- Authorities say about eight inmates suffered minor injuries during a brawl at a California state prison that was quickly dispersed.

Lt. Brian Davis of the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco says a small fight in the food line Tuesday morning led to a much larger one in a TV and gaming area in the afternoon.

He says the seven or eight inmates who suffered cuts and bruises were the ones involved in the fight. No one was seriously hurt or taken to a hospital, and no staff members were injured.

Davis says guards used pepper spray to stop the brawl in about eight minutes.

The prison about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles houses about 4,200 inmates, most of them low-level offenders.

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