LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Operations at a Port of Los Angeles terminal resumed after an explosion in a 20-foot container prompted the longshoremen's union to shut down the terminal and issue calls for increased security, officials said Thursday.

The explosion Wednesday afternoon at the Trans Pacific Container Service Corp. terminal forced the walls of a steel container to bow outward and its contents of mostly soda cans and other food products to spill out ......
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