Imagine you are a parent, and that out of the blue, you get a letter from your child's school telling you not to worry — that they're ready to evacuate or shelter in place if an underground fire ...

“It cannot explode, like a nuclear bomb,” said the ... known location of radioactive contamination. Bridgeton Landfill’s parent company, the waste business Republic Services, has spent ...

BRIDGETON, Mo.—Dawn Chapman can put up with the noxious smell caused by smoldering trash in a landfill near her suburban St. Louis home. But if the burning creeps close to buried nuclear waste ...

BRIDGETON, Mo. — When Dawn Chapman moved to Bridgeton in 2002, she didn't know her house was two miles away from radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill. "You can't buy a house that has lead ...

Beneath the surface of a St. Louis-area landfill lurk two things that should never meet: a slow-burning fire and a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste ... the fire at Bridgeton Landfill has ...

LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Missouri officials are ... asked that the EPA assume oversight of the Bridgeton Landfill, arguing it may contain nuclear waste like the adjacent West Lake Landfill.

Dawn Chapman can put up with the noxious smell caused by smoldering trash in a landfill near her suburban St. Louis home. But if the burning creeps close to buried nuclear waste, she's ready to ...

BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) — Nuclear waste buried in a Missouri landfill that sits near an underground smolder is more extensive than first believed, and is part of the reason the $205 million Superfund ...

BRIDGETON, Mo. — Dawn Chapman can put up ... possibility that the fire could someday reach the nuclear waste in the neighboring West Lake Landfill, owned by a subsidiary of Republic Services.