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West Recovery Continues, 5 Years After Plant Blast

Head football coach David Woodard, like others in West, Texas, lost his home and his place of employment on a Wednesday evening five years ago, when an explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. plant rocked the town, killed 15 and …

Ammonium Nitrate Still Located Near Texas Schools, Houses

A newspaper analysis has found that while some safety steps have been taken across Texas following the deadly 2013 explosion at a plant in West, tons of the same kind of fertilizer that exploded there can still be found near …

West Receives $20M Grant for Schools Ruined in Blast

A federal agency is granting $20 million to a rural Central Texas town to help rebuild two schools destroyed in last year’s deadly fertilizer plant explosion, town and federal officials said Monday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide the …