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Christina Lee Attack: Howard Stewart Pleads Not Guilty To Burning Girlfriend, Trying To Light Daughter On Fire

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Christina Lee, Howard Stewart, Connecticut, Video, Daughter, Howard Stewart Attack, 911 Call, Crime, New Haven, Arson, New York News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut man has pleaded not guilty to charges he set his girlfriend on fire and tried to set her 12-year-old daughter a...

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I.R. Smallwood, 81-Year-Old Georgia Man, Tried To Burn 35-Year-Old Girlfriend With Gasoline

WSB Atlanta | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Coweta County, Newnan Times-Herald, Barbara Dawn Coker, IR Smallwood, Attempted Murder Burning, Arson, Irvin Riley Smallwood, Home News

An 81-year-old man will undergo a mental evaluation after he allegedly tried to set his 35-year-old girlfriend on fire but instead burned his house do...

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Police Arrest Suspect For Arson At 9/11 Victims Chapel Fire

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 11.01.2009 | New York

Read More: WTC Fire, 9/11, World Trade Center Victims, Arson, Nazli Parvizi, 9/11 Victims Chapel, 9/11 Fire, 9/11 Arson, New York News

NEW YORK — A man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of setting a small fire at the temporary home for the remains of thousands of World Trade Ce...

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On Detroit's Angels Night, Volunteers Are On The Lookout For Fires

Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact

Read More: Detroit, Community Service, Angels Night, Arson, Volunteering, Neighborhood Watch, Volunteerism, Arson Fires, Impact News

Last night was the first of several planned Angels Nights in Detroit, where volunteers walk and drive the streets looking to report suspicious fires. ...

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China Executes 2 Tibetans For The Roles In 2008 Riots

AP | By HENRY SANDERSON | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Monks, Tibetan Minority, Olympics, Tibet, Xinhua, International Campaign for Tibet, Han Chinese, Executions, Human Rights Watch, Han Majority, Buddhist, Executed, Death Penalty, China Riots, Arson, Buddhism, Migrants, Buddhist Monks, China, Xinjiang, Lhasa, World News

BEIJING -- Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known e...

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Michael Brewer Hospitalized: 5 Teens Charged With Setting Florida Teenager On Fire

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Crime, True Crime, Michael Brewer, Teenagers in Trouble, Fire, Fire Stories, Arson, Criminal Teenagers, Theft, Teenagers in Jail, Home News

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Five teenagers were charged with aggravated battery Tuesday for dousing a 15-year-old with rubbing alcohol and setting him on fire because he stopped someone from stealing his father's bicycle, authorities said.

Michael Brewer was hospitalized with burns on more than three-quarters of his body after the attack at a Deerfield Beach apartment complex Monday.

The Broward County sheriff's office said in a news release that 15-year-olds Matthew Bent, Denver Jarvis, Steven Shelton and Jesus Mendez and 13-year-old Jeremy Jarvis were charged with aggravated battery. Mendez was also charged with attempted second-degree murder because authorities say he flicked the lighter.

The victim's brother-in-law, Danny Martinez, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that Brewer is in serious condition but doing OK.

He was burned on his torso and arms, sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal said. Family members said most of his hair, including his eyelashes, had also been burned off.

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Denver DA Employee Suspected of Torching Own Car

CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 10.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Forgery, Fraud, Foreclosure, Kia, District Attorney Office, Bankruptcy, Colorado, Allstate, Car Loan, Court, Denver, Arson, Da, Denver News

A former supervisor at the Denver District Attorney's Office is under scrutiny, suspected of involvement in torching his own car then sending himself ...

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Middle-Class Faces Homelessness After Job Loss

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Fire-Marshall, Food Banks, Migrant Workers, Share Our Selves, Laid Off, Bearing Witness, Layoffs, Outsourcing, Factory, Unemployed, Unemployment, Homelessness, Potatoes, Homeless, Bearing Witness 2.0, Arson, Business News

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the Robertson family was living in a storage unit. Save The Family Arizona suppli...

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Arson Caused L.A. Wildfire: U.S. Forest Service

AP | GREG RISLING and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

Read More: L.A., U.S. Forest Service, LA Sheriff's Department, Wildfires, Station Fire, Criminal Charges, Fires, Arson, Los Angeles, Home News

LOS ANGELES — Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the giganti...

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Still Clinging to the Barbarity of the Death Penalty

Byron Williams | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Exoneration, Corsicana, New Yorker, Death Row, Cameron Todd Willingham, Death Penalty Advocates, Death Penalty Debate, David Grann, Death Penalty, Arson, Innocence Project, Barry Scheck, Politics News

Since it is impossible to avoid error, the only way one can support the death penalty is to suggest that we have expendable portions of society.

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Cameron Todd Willingham: Did Texas Execute An Innocent Man?

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Criminal Justice System, Capital Punishment, Cameron Willingham Innocence, Crime, Elizabeth Gilbert, Texas, Arson, Innocence Project, Barry Sheck, Cameron Todd Willingham Execution, Dna Testing, Gerald Hurst, Cameron Willingham Execution, Cameron Todd Willingham, Death Penalty, Cameron Willngham Death Penalty, Death Row, Politics News

Huffington Post blogger Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, weighs in on the new evidence revealed by an investigative report in the New Yorker on...

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Doubt and the Death Penalty

Cyrus Vance | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conviction Integrity Unit, Beyond Reasonable Doubt, Cameron Todd Willingham, Manhattan District Attorney, Criminal Court, Willingham, Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty, Repeat Offenders, Arson, Justice, Politics News

Victims of crime deserve justice. Those who commit crimes must be held accountable for their actions. But just as we prosecute, we also must safeguard the rights of the innocent.

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Overwhelm And The Corporate Arsonist

Russell Bishop | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Performance Improvement, Overwhelm, Personal Productivity, The Balanced Life, Important vs. Urgent, Burnout, Getting Things Done, The Ethical Life, Arsonists, Arson, Living News

If you are lucky enough to still have a job, and that job is working in an office, then you may know a little bit about overwhelm and burnout. Over...

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Man Decides To Clean House With Gasoline While Smoking

AP | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Arson, Stupid Criminals, Cleaning With Gasoline, Comedy News

CHILTON, Wis. — A man faces an arson charge after telling authorities he wasn't thinking when he decided to use gasoline for cleaning up his apa...

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Two by Earth, Three by Fire: Detroit Revisited

Lester Sloan | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Michigan State, Ford, Walter Reuther, Gran Torino, Anderson Cooper, Detroit Riot, Hybrid Cars, Woodward Avenue, Red Wings, Jim Crow, Eastern Market, Final Four, Lynching, River Rouge, White Flight, Stanley Cup, United Auto Workers Union, Detroit Institute of Art, Arson, Fred Astaire, Devil's Night, Motown, Detroit, Greek Town, St.Lawrence Seaway, Chrysler, Pall Mall, Great Migration, Detroit-Michigan, Living News

Ironically, it is still Detroit that gives the suburbs a sense of place and America a reason to hope.

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Raymond Lee Oyler Gets Death Penalty For Arson

LA Times | David Kelly | Posted 04.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Raymond Lee Oyler Guilty, Raymond Lee Oyler Arson, Arson, Raymond Lee Oyler Death Penalty, Raymond Lee Oyler, Home News

A Riverside County jury today called for the death penalty in the trial of Raymond Lee Oyler, who was found guilty of arson and the murder of five fir...

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Arson Strikes Pennsylvania City For 20th Time This Year

AP | Posted 04.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Arson, Coatesville Arson, Home News

COATESVILLE, Pa. — The arson-plagued Philadelphia suburb of Coatesville was struck by yet another deliberately set fire early Saturday, the 20th...

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Report on Forensic Science Challenges Accuracy of Evidence Analyses

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dna, Cameron Todd Willingham, Forensic Science, Death Penalty, Arson, Innocence Project, Death, Politics News

Many forensic methods such as hair samples and blood spatters, are often mishandled by poorly trained technicians. Thousands of people convicted on the basis of such evidence may actually be innocent.

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Officials: Boy Playing With Matches Started A California Wildfire

AP | DAISY NGUYEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: California Wildfires, Arson, Home News

Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would a...

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