PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Two years before the deadly blaze at The Station, one of the club's owners did a television report on the fire dangers of mattresses, especially those that contain polyurethane foam ...

"If it was (polyurethane), then the governor's going want an answer to the question, 'Why was it there?"' said the governor's spokesman, Jeff Neal. The state has started a criminal investigation into ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Forensic experts have identified 78 of the 97 people who died as they tried to escape a raging nightclub fire, the governor said. Meanwhile, investigators were focusing in part on ...

Investigators are trying to determine whether the soundproofing material that burst into flames at the Station nightclub and led to the deaths of 97 people Thursday was a highly flammable type that ...

Gov. Don Carcieri said authorities were still awaiting a lab analysis of the soundproofing tiles used at the Station club. State law bars flammable acoustic material like polyurethane foam from the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The dealer who sold soundproofing to the nightclub where an inferno killed 97 people said Friday the owners bought cheap and highly flammable packing foam, not real acoustic ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Investigators of the Rhode Island nightclub disaster tried to determine Monday whether the soundproofing material that burst into flames was a highly flammable type that shouldn't ...

WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) -- Town building and fire inspectors who visited The Station nightclub over the past three years never reported seeing highly flammable foam that was placed on the walls as ...