LOS ANGELES — A cache of homemade fireworks exploded as it was being destroyed by a bomb squad, flipping and damaging cars, smashing windows in homes and injuring 17 people including police officers, ...

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.

A person was found dead inside a Los Angeles apartment building after an explosion that investigators suspect was sparked by fireworks or “homemade explosives,” police said. The blast ripped through ...

A 17-year-old boy died in an explosion ignited by fireworks Wednesday evening in South Los Angeles, according to authorities. The Los Angeles Police Department responded at around 9:26 p.m. to the 400 ...