HOUSTON -- Eight people, including two teenagers, were killed after a crowd surged toward the stage at a massive Houston concert, causing panic and chaos, authorities said. About 50,000 people were at ...

Concerts — particularly festival-scale concerts attended by tens of thousands of fervent fans — bear safety concerns that have made such events fraught for decades. Unlike large gatherings for, say, a ...

Investigators are expected to examine the design of safety barriers and the use of crowd control in determining what led to a crush of spectators at a Houston music festival that left eight people ...