When ignited, stars create the breathtaking flashes of color and light that ... The tubes, or "mortars," are three times as long as the firework shells but have the same diameter.

On the deck of a barge, crews loaded hundreds of fireworks shells into mortars then wired them to ... And that’s sound, light and color,” DRWC President Joe Forkin told KYW Newsradio.

Inside, colorful "stars" filled with elements that burn into bright-hot colors ... that fireworks are not actually rocketed into the sky. "We don't use rockets," he said. "We use mortars ...

Maui police recently seized 107 pounds of aerial fireworks, 95 mortar shells and 40,610 firecrackers that were being shipped from the Mainland to Maui through the U.S. Postal Service. In the boxes ...

Colorado Springs police confirmed that the "mortars" found at the scene of a grass fire early Sunday in the 3600 block of Oro Blanco Drive were mortar-style fireworks. The discovery, which took ...