Date: 3/13/2009 WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — An investigator says a teenager accused of setting nine fires in an arson-plagued Philadelphia suburb led them to several of the scenes and confessed to the crimes. Nineteen-year-old Roger Leon Barlow was held for trial after a court hearing Friday. He’s charged with arson and aggravated assault in […]
Yesterday, as I browsed the internet for headlines, I tuned into CNN for some background noise and by the end of the day my mood was as dark as the news. I have made it a habit to not tune into news channels for that very reason. Don’t take me wrong. My job entails absorbing […]
Date: 3/6/2009 CINCINNATI (AP) — Police say a student at a small Ohio college has been arrested on arson charges after several fires were set on the campus. Police in the Cincinnati suburb of Delhi Township say 18-year-old Jordan Cullen was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of aggravated arson. It was not immediately […]
Date: 2/19/2009 COATESVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A 19-year-old was charged Thursday with setting at least seven fires in an arson-plagued steel town, including a block-long blaze that displaced dozens of people last month. Roger Leon Barlow Jr., of nearby Downingtown, was charged with arson, aggravated assault and related counts. He was arraigned Thursday afternoon and […]
Date: 2/19/2009 By KRISTEN GELINEAUAssociated Press Writer WHITTLESEA, Australia (AP) — The electrician’s tools were incinerated, the trucker’s rig reduced to a useless, burned shell. The deadly wildfires that swept southern Australia destroyed more than lives — they destroyed livelihoods. As the days since the Feb. 7 blazes wear on, the needs of the survivors […]
Date: 2/15/2009 By TANALEE SMITHAssociated Press Writer WHITTLESEA, Australia (AP) — Australians mourning the lives lost in horrific wildfires last week sought comfort at churches Sunday even as firefighters continued to battle a dozen blazes still burning in the state. Fire engines raced past the small, 140-year-old Christ Church in Whittlesea while the Archbishop of […]
Date: 2/14/2009 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Ten people who built a campfire won’t be charged with igniting a wildfire last fall that destroyed more than 200 homes in Santa Barbara and neighboring Montecito, prosecutors said Friday. Santa Barbara County District Attorney Christie Stanley said investigators could not prove who caused the wildfire that blackened […]
Date: 2/14/2009 By COLLEEN LONGAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two tenants were acquitted Friday of creating a deadly maze of illegal walls in their apartment building, forcing two firefighters responding to a blaze to jump to their deaths. Caridad Coste and Rafael Castillo had faced manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other charges that […]
Date: 2/14/2009 By KRISTEN GELINEAUAssociated Press Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Outrage over the Australian wildfires that killed more than 180 people last week was white hot after police said some of the blazes may have been deliberately set. The prime minister said the culprits should “rot in jail,” and government officials threatened the maximum charge: […]
Date: 2/13/2009 By TANALEE SMITHAssociated Press Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities charged a man Friday with lighting one of the wildfires that killed more than 180 people in Australia, and whisked him into protective custody to guard him from public fury. Police said the suspect was charged with one count of arson causing death […]