'We don't seem to learn': Beirut explosion echoes US tragedy
By PAUL J. WEBER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The staggering videos from the Lebanese capital are grimly familiar to Tommy Muska thousands of miles away in Texas: a towering blast, a thundering explosion and shock waves demolishing buildings with horrifying speed. It is what the mayor of West, Texas, lived seven years ago when one of the deadliest fertilizer plant explosions