All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2007 // A former mayor of Kirksville, Mo. was sentenced to more than five years in prison for setting fire to a popular hangout for college students that she owned in the northeast Missouri town.Deborah Masten was also ordered to...
Aug 1 2007 // Prosecutors have dismissed a case against a former Missouri firefighter accused of intentionally starting fires in Benton County, Ark.Deputy Prosecutor Drew Ledbetter said there wasn’t sufficient evidence to proceed...
Jul 25 2007 // Williams County authorities are investigating more suspected arson fires northwest of this city.Twenty acres of grassland and two old buildings burned Friday afternoon, about 20 miles northwest of Williston. Two days...
Jul 20 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that CDI Urban Auto Theft Task Force investigators arrested two suspects on charges of arson of property, falsely reporting a crime and filing fraudulent insurance...
Jul 19 2007 // A Johnson County, Ind. judge will hold a bench trial for Morgan County Sheriff Robert Garner’s 23-year-old son, who faces arson and other charges.Robert Jake Garner faces 19 felony counts, including eight counts of...
Jul 17 2007 // The Republic Group, celebrating over 100 years of service in Texas, has donated $1,000 to the Texas Arson Hotline. The Arson Hotline has been responsible for more than two dozen arrests on charges of arson since its...
Jul 10 2007 // Arson is unlikely in a northwest Georgia church fire that broke out early on July 6 – Georgia’s third church fire in less than two weeks, investigators said.Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John...
Jun 21 2007 // Fire officials have ruled a fire that damaged a Logan County, W. Va., church as arson.There are no suspects at this time in the fire at the Kistler Freewill Baptist Church, Kim O’Brien, spokeswoman for the state Fire...
Jun 21 2007 // The Arkansas Court of Appeals dismissed a Hot Spring County woman’s arson conviction, ruling that prosecutors did not offer proof other than a disputed confession that she set fire to her home.Barbara Fowler was...
Jun 11 2007 // A southwest Iowa woman faces charges of arson, attempted murder and child endangerment in connection with a May 26 fire at her home. Iowa Department of Public Safety officials said Audrey Nicole Gilleland, 24, turned...
Jun 7 2007 // Police arrested a key witness in the case involving a former Saginaw, Mich. mayor charged with arson and insurance fraud in the burning of her 1986 Mercedes-Benz.Jerry W. Wilkins was arrested June 1st at a restaurant by...
Jun 1 2007 // An arson investigator was arraigned this week in two counties on charges of planting evidence at fire scenes, Michigan authorities said.Jeffrey D. Wallace, 53, was arraigned last week on similar charges in Gladwin County...
May 29 2007 // Two insurers, Nationwide and Germania, have made donations to the Texas Arson Hotline, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. Each donated $1,000.The Arson Hotline has been responsible for more than two dozen arrests on...
May 25 2007 // A wildfire apparently intentionally set scorched more than 700 acres in a remote area of Sumter County and sent heavy smoke over Alabama Highway 17, forcing an overnight traffic detour.Firefighters battled the flames for...
May 21 2007 // The house in rural southeast Kansas where Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels was killed in 2005 burned down and authorities suspect arson.Three properties at Hilltop in Greenwood County, including the house where...
May 21 2007 // A grocery store owner, her son and his girlfriend face federal charges in the fire that gutted the business last year, allegedly as part of a scheme to collect just over $794,000 in insurance money.Mayneng Xiong, 51, owner...
May 16 2007 // An arson task force is investigating a string of six fires that have broken out in the seaport city of Newport, R.I. since May, three of them in just the past week.On Sunday, fires that started within a few hours of each...
May 1 2007 // The house in rural southeast Kansas where Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels was killed in 2005 burned down last week, and authorities suspect arson.Three properties at Hilltop in Greenwood County, including the house...
Apr 18 2007 // A North Dakota man charged with setting fire to his girlfriend’s mobile home last week is now charged with setting fire last year to a business he co-owned.Lawrence Bailey, 27, of Bismarck, was released from jail...
Apr 16 2007 // A Michigan judge recently ruled that there is enough evidence for a former mayor charged with arson and insurance fraud in the burning of her 1986 Mercedes-Benz to stand trial in the case. Wilmer Jones Ham, who serves on...