All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2010 // Authorities in Flint are investigating a dozen weekend fires — most of them suspected to be arson. Flint Fire Department Battalion Chief Andy Graves said Sunday that 12 fires were reported since midnight last Friday....
Apr 19 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 7 2010 // Maine fire investigators say a former boyfriend of a waitress at a topless coffee shop is being charged with arson for last year’s fire that destroyed the shop and some adjoining apartments in the small town of...
Mar 22 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...
Mar 17 2010 // The father of a firefighter who died in a 2007 furniture store blaze that killed nine firefighters says families will meet with state fire investigators next week to discuss whether criminal negligence was involved in the...
Mar 16 2010 // An upstate New York man who claimed he was thrown 35 feet out of his mobile home by the force of a propane explosion has been charged with insurance fraud, New York insurance officials said.State police arrested James E....
Mar 2 2010 // Citizens of Hall County in Georgia who provided information in a house fire that led to the conviction of an arsonist have received arson reward checks totaling $4,500.Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W....
Mar 1 2010 // The former chief of the New Sight Volunteer Fire Department has been charged with embezzlement. District Attorney Dee Bates told the Brookhaven Daily Leader that 37-year-old Mike Boyd was being held in the Lincoln County...
Feb 26 2010 // A man rescued from a fire at a renowned R&B record company had been using a lighter to see inside the building, which he entered while possibly intoxicated, police said Wednesday in charging him with arson.Police said...
Feb 25 2010 // An Ohio man is charged with setting fire to a western Pennsylvania mobile home he used to rent after police say heavy snows kept him from driving away. Thirty-three-year-old Robert Lee Armstrong, of Warren, Ohio, is...
Feb 23 2010 // Investigators say DNA evidence collected at the site of one of several Texas churches destroyed by arson links one of two suspects to the blaze, and they haven’t ruled out more charges.Jason Robert Bourque, 19, and...
Feb 10 2010 // Mississippi officials have charged a Vicksburg man with arson involving 10 buildings and two vehicles.A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, the Vicksburg Fire Department and the...
Jan 6 2010 // Authorities have made an arrest in connection with a fire in Northampton, Massachusetts that claimed the life of an elderly man and his son.District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel said in a statement that 25-year-old Anthony...
Dec 30 2009 // A central Kentucky couple have pleaded not guilty to charges that they damaged their rental home by intentionally setting it on fire.The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that 31-year-old Debra Poole and 29-year-old Anthony...
Nov 24 2009 // A former assistant fire chief accused of setting two small fires in an arson-plagued steel town near Philadelphia has worked out a plea bargain freeing him from jail.A Chester County judge says the deal for Robert Tracey...
Nov 20 2009 // Georgia’s top fire official is urging churches to bolster security after two metro Atlanta churches were set on fire. Georgia Insurance and Fire Safety Commissioner John Oxendine said officials are investigating...
Nov 19 2009 // An employee has been charged with arson in a weekend fire at a Roanoke, Virginia pet store that caused about $2 million in damage.Roanoke Fire Department spokeswoman Tiffany Bradbury said 18-year-old Corey Brian Hite of...
Nov 18 2009 // Investigators say two fires that destroyed the Smoke Hole Caverns gift shop and restaurant in West Virginia were deliberately set.Grant County Sheriff’s Deputy S.L. Wratchford says items were found inside a trash can...
Nov 17 2009 // A man who lived the high life in Sausalito pled guilty yesterday to setting a fire that destroyed a warehouse filled with 6 million bottles of wine and to selling wine he was supposed to be storing for customers.The value...
Nov 12 2009 // It was a heartwarming story: A 200-year-old general store suffers a fire, the owner can’t afford to rebuild it and the town’s historical society steps in to buy the building, hoping to make it the commercial...