All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 23 2011 // Two men in Texas have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to commit arson in order to obtain insurance proceeds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced.Blaise Hancock, of...
Oct 13 2011 // A 30-year-old Reserve, La.,woman has been sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for her role in 2007 fire at a public housing complex. Niasha Marie King pleaded guilty to setting her apartment in Reserve on...
Aug 24 2011 // A Massachusetts judge has rejected a plea to suppress evidence in the case of a Northampton man accused of setting 15 fires that left two men dead and damaged property and vehicles more than a year ago.Prosecutors allege...
Aug 19 2011 // Authorities have arrested two teens on felony third-degree arson charges as firefighters continue battling a wildfire burning about 3 square miles south of Gardnerville, Nev.Douglas County Sheriff’s officials say two...
Aug 8 2011 // Pennsylvania state police have charged Lackawanna County’s deputy corner with arson, alleging he tried to pay $40,000 to an undercover trooper to burn a building he owned in a bid to collect insurance money. The...
Aug 5 2011 // Fire investigators tried to determine Wednesday whether a man arrested for investigation of a serial arson spree in the San Fernando Valley served time for torching bars and restaurants in Japan a decade ago while he was...
Jul 27 2011 // A proposal to stiffen sentences for arson in Pennsylvania has run afoul of a debate over the use of mandatory minimum sentences in the commonwealth.State Sen. John Rafferty Jr., R-Chester, introduced the measure in March...
Jul 20 2011 // A fire chief says a blaze that destroyed a strip mall in central Kentucky was arson.Meade County Fire Chief Larry Naser said investigators have ruled out electrical and mechanical causes and spontaneous combustion. Naser...
Jun 23 2011 // Authorities in Flint, Michigan have arrested a suspect in five of what are believed to be nine arson fires that broke out overnight in an eastside neighborhood, the city announced.Three firefighters were treated for heat...
May 24 2011 // Investigators say they’ve ruled out arson as the possible cause of a fire that damaged 11 vehicles parked in a southern New Jersey school bus yard. But the cause of Thursday’s fire in Bordentown Township still...
May 13 2011 // A suburban fire department in Louisville, Ky. will begin charging a fee to battle most blazes later this summer.Lyndon will charge a homeowner’s or business’ insurance company as part of a new...
May 11 2011 // A man wanted for setting more than a dozen fires in central Pennsylvania has been arrested in Ohio. Lancaster police say 31-year-old Anthony Harnisch was arrested last week in Painesville, Ohio on a warrant issued by...
Apr 25 2011 // Five former members of a volunteer fire department in Jefferson County, West Virginia have been charged with arson and conspiracy. The Journal reported that a grand jury indicted the men last week. One former firefighter...
Apr 20 2011 // A state panel in Texas has recommended more education and training for fire investigators following its review of a case involving a Texas inmate executed after a fire labeled arson killed his three daughters.The Texas...
Mar 18 2011 // An anonymous phone call to the Texas Arson Hotline has led to the arrest of three juvenile gang members in Bastrop County. The three teenagers reportedly terrorized a neighborhood for more than a year before burning an...
Mar 7 2011 // A Connecticut man charged with burning down his beach home hours before he was supposed to give it to his estranged wife may sue the home’s insurer for emotional distress, the state Appellate Court has ruled.Richard...
Feb 16 2011 // A Connecticut man charged with burning down his beach home hours before he was supposed to give it to his estranged wife can sue the home’s insurer for emotional distress, the state Appellate Court has ruled.Richard...
Jan 25 2011 // A Texas commission looking into an arson investigation that led to the execution of the man convicted of starting the fatal fire decided last Friday to move ahead with a report on the case even though its authority is not...
Dec 20 2010 // Police say a suspect is in custody after a third fire in one week damaged a Super 8 motel in Virginia.Hanover fire Battalion Chief William Jones tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the third fire was reported just after...
Dec 9 2010 // Some New Jerseyans might have to pay if they need the fire department or an ambulance.Salem’s City Council has adopted an ordinance that would allow the fire department to charge to recover costs. The council says...