Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex at England’s Roxy Club in 1977. Photo: Gus Stewart/Redferns The first eleven seconds of X-Ray Spex’s debut single, from 1977, rank among the most memorable punk ...

CLEVES, Ohio — A rail car in the Cleves and Whitewater Township area began leaking styrene on Tuesday, prompting evacuations and the closure of roads and businesses in the area amid safety concerns.

The 12 near-perfect songs on “Germfree Adolescents,” the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later. One of ...

WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX) - Styrene, a toxic flammable chemical leaking from a railyard in western Hamilton County is widely used to make plastics and rubber. Those products are used to ...

In 2016, five years after the death of Poly Styrene—the punk legend and trailblazing frontwoman of the short-lived but fiercely beloved band X-Ray Spex—her daughter, Celeste Bell, finally received the ...

As federal officials investigate the leak of styrene from a rail car near Cleves, one University of Cincinnati expert says such toxic chemical leaks are likely to happen more often. That's because oil ...

WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX) - More residents are filing lawsuits seeking class-action status against multiple companies after a railcar in their community leaked the toxic and highly flammable ...

A new report from the National Research Council has upheld the listing of styrene as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” in the National Toxicology Program’s 12th Report on Carcinogens ...

Poly Styrene stood out in British punk. Female in a male world, heavy in a skinny world, half-African in a white world, flaunting braces that looked like they could dent a lorry, she's linked in ...

Her punk-rock self-examination bests hippie-style narcissism. Ahem, Neil and Joni. Poly Styrene’s voice — a siren of joy and alarm — reaches into the millennium with a lesson for us all in the ...

Students and staff at Merrimack Valley High School were halfway through fourth period when a harsh odor permeated classrooms and hallways throughout the two-story brick building nestled along a wooded ...