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Fire at Heidelberg

Jenenne Whitfield | Posted 05.23.2013 | Arts
Jenenne Whitfield

As you may have heard by now, a prominent art installation on Heidelberg Street, the Obstruction of Justice House, burned almost entirely to the groun...

More Than 70 Fires Lit In Virginia Arson Spree

AP | Posted 04.01.2013 | Crime

ACCOMAC, Va. -- Virginia State Police are investigating another arson on the Eastern Shore. State police tell news media outlets that an abandoned tw...

String Of Arsons Has Authorities Stumped

AP | Posted 05.29.2013 | Crime

ACCOMACK, Va. — An abandoned home is the latest arson target on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Authorities say the Thursday night fire is believed t...

Prosecutor: Man Confessed To Deadly Arson

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2013 | Crime

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut man confessed three times to setting a 2011 gas-fueled fire that killed three members of the same family and fo...

Arsonist Sentenced To Death

AP | Posted 03.30.2013 | Los Angeles

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — An arsonist was given the death penalty Monday for killing five men who died of heart attacks during a wildfire nearly ...

WATCH: Man In Custody For Fatal Soho Fire

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 01.11.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — A man is in custody on suspicion of intentionally starting a fatal five-alarm fire Thursday in a New York City apartment building as part...

Teen Pleads Guilty To Setting Predominately Black Church On Fire

Posted 01.09.2013 | Black Voices

In court on Tuesday morning, a Virginia teenager admitted to setting a church known to have a predominately black congregation on fire. According ...

David Lohr

Serial Arsonist's 38 Fires In 45 Days Spark Terror In Virginia

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 12.28.2012 | Crime

Authorities in Virginia's eastern shore are hunting a dangerous arsonist who appears to be growing bolder day by day. The suspect, according to pol...

WATCH: Anguished Message Scrawled On Clinic In Christmas Arson

Sun Sentinel | Erika Pesantes | Posted 02.25.2013 | Miami

Hollywood Fire-Rescue and State Fire Marshal investigators are looking into a suspicious fire that broke out at a pain clinic where an accusatory mess...

25 Years For Woman Who Killed Her 2 Children In Fire

AP | BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 02.12.2013 | Crime

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A sobbing mother was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for setting fire to her home and killing two of her children at ...

Serial Arsonist Possibly Behind Dozens Of Recent Fires

Posted 12.04.2012 | Crime

Abandoned homes, trailers, vacant barns and even a chicken coop have been set on fire in a spate of destruction that's left Virginia's eastern shore s...

Family Believes Indiana Man Killed In House Fire Was Victim Of Anti-Gay Hate Crime

Posted 10.01.2012 | Gay Voices

Sources say that a mysterious Indianapolis house fire that left one man dead may have been an anti-gay hate crime. WBIW cites family members who s...

Haunted House Burned Down By Employees, Cops Say

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 09.19.2012 | Crime

Two haunted house employees in Pennsylvania were arrested after the spooky attraction they worked for burned to the ground. Lucas McChesney, 29, an...

Teen Tries To Kill Her Family With Fire

AP | Posted 10.19.2012 | Crime

CLAYTON, N.J. — A 15-year-old girl is scheduled in court Monday to face charges she deliberately set a fire in her family's house, injuring hers...

WATCH: Band Sets Palm Tree Ablaze On Fairfax Avenue

Posted 08.12.2012 | Los Angeles

LA is on fire. Or, at least the symbol of LA -- a giant palm tree -- is, in the video above. This bizarre incident happened outside of Canter's Del...

Waldo Canyon Investigation Moves To The Lab

Posted 08.09.2012 | Denver

Investigators have moved most of the work searching for clues to the origin of the Waldo Canyon Fire into a lab. While the cause of the most destru...

Rust Belt Fatalism: Why Psychology is Important in City Making

Richey Piiparinen | Posted 09.17.2012 | Detroit
Richey Piiparinen

Emotion must start entering into the conversation of how it is we are forming our cities. Otherwise, our intentions at being well-intended will continually bend to that part of the dark we think we are fleeing or fighting.

Arsonists Target African Migrant Home

Reuters | Posted 09.10.2012 | World

JERUSALEM, July 12 (Reuters) - Unidentified arsonists set fire on Thursday to the Jerusalem home of Eritrean migrants, injuring three in what Israel...

Wildfire Arson, Murder Trial Set To Light Up

AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 09.08.2012 | Los Angeles

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A prosecutor said Monday a man who was angry about being thrown out of a house where his family was staying was guilty ...

Ashley Woods

Up In Flames: Imagination Station Burns In Early Morning Blaze

HuffingtonPost.com | Ashley Woods | Posted 06.27.2012 | Detroit

Detroit's Imagination Station, a nonprofit project aiming to rescue two blighted homes facing Corktown's Roosevelt Park and the Michigan Central Stati...

College Student Sets Former Classmate's Home On Fire AGAIN

Huffington Post | Anna Susman | Posted 06.20.2012 | College

A Chico State student was charged with setting fire to a former female high school classmate’s home on two separate occasions. Landon Cramer was ...

Wildfire Near Historic Mining Town Nearly Triples In Size

AP | Posted 07.16.2012 | Green

CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — Strong wind gusts will likely keep spreading a wildfire that has grown to nearly 10 square miles and prompted the evacuatio...

Officials Rule On Coral Gables Travel Agency Fire

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 07.13.2012 | Miami

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- A blaze last month that scorched the offices of a Cuba travel agency in Miami was deliberately set, fire investigators say, one ...

Woman Sentenced For Setting Home On Fire With Foreclosure Notice

AP | Posted 04.23.2012 | Crime

CORRY, Pa. -- A northwestern Pennsylvania woman will spend 10 years on probation for attempting suicide by setting fire to her home with a foreclosure...

Woman Admits Killing Kids When Burning Boyfriend's Photos

AP | Posted 04.16.2012 | Crime

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- An upstate New York woman charged with arson and manslaughter in connection with a fire that killed four of her children reportedly...