All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 9 2010 // Lauderdale County, Ala. jurors have awarded $5 million in damages to a woman who suffered life-threatening injuries in a 2004 arson fire.The TimesDaily newspaper reported that 20-year-old Karrie Hayes testified during the...
Dec 7 2010 // A fire that destroyed a controversial Civil War-themed chapel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was set intentionally, police said.There are no official suspects, but investigators are seeking three teens reported to be in the...
Nov 29 2010 // A 49-year-old Maine man charged with burning down a topless coffee shop wants his trial moved.Raymond Bellavance claims pretrial publicity will make it too hard to find an unbiased jury in Kennebec County. Bellavance is...
Nov 10 2010 // An Ohio-based insurance company is donating more than $20,000 worth of arson investigation gear to Toledo, which has seen a rash of vacant house fires. Westfield Insurance says the gift presented to the city on Tuesday...
Oct 26 2010 // There were a raft of hazards and regulatory failures at a contaminated ground zero tower where two firefighters died, but that’s not a reason to toss out manslaughter charges against three construction company...
Oct 18 2010 // Little Rock, Ark., developer Aaron Jones, who was convicted of setting fire to his $1.6 million home in an insurance scheme, was taken into custody so he can start serving time pending a prison sentence.Arkansas Business...
Oct 12 2010 // Authorities say eight fires in 16 hours in Manchester, New Hampshire were arson.Fire officials say they started Saturday afternoon and ended Sunday. No injuries or serious damage have been reported. District Fire Chief...
Sep 30 2010 // A student is in custody following a series of fires inside a northeastern Pennsylvania dorm.Nineteen-year-old Ryan Burke was arrested hours after two fires broke out early Tuesday in the dorm on the campus of East...
Sep 16 2010 // A Texas panel is expected to review a final report that clears fire officials of wrongdoing in their arson investigation that led to a man’s 2004 execution.The Texas Forensic Science Commission is scheduled to meet...
Sep 7 2010 // Federal investigators said Friday that a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in the southern state of Tennessee was arson and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading...
Sep 2 2010 // The top arson investigator in Connecticut’s largest city has been arrested in alleged fire-for-hire plot to burn her car for the insurance money.Veteran Bridgeport police Detective Kimberly Biehn is facing charges of...
Sep 1 2010 // A Nov. 8 plea hearing is set for a former volunteer firefighter accused of setting a blaze in Berkeley County, W. Va., that injured a firefighter from another department.Berkeley County Prosecutor Pamela Games-Neely told a...
Aug 19 2010 // A pair of fires that happened within minutes of each other may be arson and a southern Kentucky fire chief believes they may also be connected. Russellville Police Department Chief Barry Dill told the Bowling Green Daily...
Aug 12 2010 // New York arson investigators have determined that a blaze at a Long Island elementary school was intentionally set.Police say witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion and saw several people running from the George...
Jul 14 2010 // A Belfast, Maine, man is facing charges he set a Mercedes-Benz on fire and then posted photos of the burning vehicle on Facebook. Belfast police say 36-year-old Asgard Tarick Gilbert was arrested on a felony arson...
Jun 16 2010 // Two of three men charged with arson in a 2005 fire that destroyed a church pleaded guilty in Barrow County Superior Court in Georgia.Maurice Arnold and Bruce Edward Smith pleaded guilty. Prosecutors say the Rev. Quincy...
Jun 9 2010 // A Georgia preacher and his son accused of burning down their church to claim an insurance check are scheduled to appear in Barrow County Superior Court. Quincy Arnold of Lawrenceville, the 50-year-old pastor of the former...
May 14 2010 // A Tallahassee man has been arrested on charges of arson, insurance fraud and grand theft after state investigaors said they determined the suspect intentionally set fire to his yacht, a 50-foot SeaRay named...
May 3 2010 // There were an estimated 30,500 intentionally set structure fires in the United States in 2008 that resulted in some $866 million in property loss, according to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). Intentionally set...
Apr 20 2010 // A Martinsburg, West Virginia official says arson is on the rise in the Eastern Panhandle city. Lt. Greg Hoover said the Martinsburg Fire Department investigated 10 arsons in the first three months of 2010. That’s...