Authorities say a fire in a bathroom at Lafayette High School is being investigated as arson. Classes at the Mississippi school resumed Tuesday. Lafayette County School Superintendent Adam Pugh tells the Oxford Eagle that the fire was started in the …
An Ohio man hatched a plot to kill a woman he was in a home-ownership dispute with, authorities say, by approaching an emergency room patient at the renowned hospital where he worked as a nurse with the question, “Ever killed …
Iowa’s fire marshal said Thursday that he has found “overwhelming evidence” that a man serving life in prison in a 1996 fire that killed his wife and child is guilty of arson, rejecting claims from defense experts that the case …
Manchester, N.H., officials are investigating an arson in which somebody turned on three propane tanks and set them on fire. Officials say they were called to a Gilford Street address shortly before 4:30 a.m. Saturday by residents who were awakened …
Investigators in Southeast Texas are trying to determine who’s been starting fires this week in vacant houses. The Port Arthur Fire Department says three structures were set ablaze during a 90-minute period ending early Thursday. KFDM-TV reports one firefighter suffered …
Authorities believe more than a dozen recent fires in Huntington, W.V., were deliberately set. State assistant fire marshal Reed Cook says the fires shouldn’t alarm residents. But he tells The Herald-Dispatch that residents should watch for suspicious activity. Up to …