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Update: 2 confirmed dead in Halter Marine shipyard explosion

By April M. Havens

November 20, 2009, 6:13PM

ESCATAWPA, Miss. -- Authorities say two people died in an explosion at VT Halter Marine's Trinity Drive shipyard in the Escatawpa community. Full story »

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