Early Sunday morning, the fifth in a series of purposefully-set fires engulfed a home in the the Cord Meyer section of central Queens’ Forest Hills neighborhood, an enclave where many Bukharian Jews have settled. Police said they believe a single arsonist is behind the fires, the New York Times reports.
A mosque in Peterborough, Canada, was deliberately set on fire this weekend, police said Sunday. While the blaze was quickly contained and no one was injured, the Peterborough Examiner reports, the building, which suffered an estimate $80,000 of damage, is now unusable.
New information about the harrowing 10-hour hostage situation that preceded the quadruple murder at a multimillion-dollar D.C. home reportedly includes evidence of torture and a quick pizza break.
The housekeeper for the family found murdered after their house was set on fire Thursday says she noticed something was definitely amiss in the days leading up to their deaths.
At least three adults and one child were killed Thursday in what police are calling a suspicious blaze that erupted just blocks from Joe Biden’s home.
Suzanne Duarte, grinning like a maniac in her mugshot, and was still smiling the next day when a local news station interviewed her in jail. And why not? She'd just set fire to a yoga studio. This is the face of a lady living her best life.
With limited evidence and few witnesses, it's often difficult to make arrests in arson cases. Other times, however, there's a guy with a burnt-up face, as there was after a house fire in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin this week.
Have pity on those who are traveling today: a fire set by an FAA contractor at an air traffic control center in the Chicago suburbs has stopped all traffic at O'Hare and Midway Airports, canceling at least 850 flights.
A babysitter who had been watching two girls in Austin, Texas for only a few months allegedly grew so frustrated with their shenanigans that she decided to light their house on fire. A punishment fit for the crime!
A woman in Kansas is facing an arson charge after doing what anyone would after catching a spider in his or her home: lighting a small fire with towels in order to catch the spider in the fire and kill it.
Hillsborough County Deputies say that Darrin Campbell, a "high-profile business executive," shot his wife and two teenage children before burning down his Tampa, Fla. mansion this week with over $650 of purchased fireworks. When the house was set ablaze, he reportedly then shot himself.
London firefighters blame a pigeon with a lit cigarette in its mouth for igniting a rooftop fire that evacuated an apartment building.
Authorities in Florida arrested a 26-year-old woman on arson charges after she reportedly set fire to her ex-boyfriend's front door while searching for closure.
Authorities say a blaze that destroyed a historic Louisiana plantation was deliberately set by seven "ghost hunters" who became frustrated at finding no ghosts inside the house.
A New York hotel security chief and fire safety director was arrested this week for giving himself days off by setting fire to the hotels he was supposed to oversee.
After being found near a fire she started in someone's driveway, Amanda Bynes has been hospitalized on a 5150 hold. That's an involuntary admission for mental-health evaluation. Things are either looking up or way down for her, as usual.
Hell hath no fury like an apartment scorched.
A Metro Atlanta man is being sought by police after he allegedly set fire to his neighbor's house over the state of his lawn.
According to the NYPD, a 45-year-old man set a massive fire above a Pinkberry yogurt shop in Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood Thursday night, leaving one dead and several injured. Police believe the man, Wei Chu Wu, started the fire after fighting with his child's mother, who lives on the building's second floor.
