Topic: Arson
AP News | 2010-02-04 17:32:53
AP News | 2009-12-28 01:46:07
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, left, leaves a news conference with State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan at fire headquarters in Northampton, Mass., Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. Firefighters struggled to put out more than a half dozen blazes, authorities said. A ...
AP Features | 2009-10-23 18:27:35
Prosecutors in California are charging a suspected arsonist with the murder of five people who died of heart attacks during a wildfire — a potential capital offense in a region held hostage by fires. Six men died of a heart attack during the 2003 blaze that surged through the San Bernardino Mountain foothills. And with evidence that stress from the wildfire ...
AP News | 2009-10-23 16:03:05
Prosecutors take gamble, charge California wildfire suspect with murder in heart attack deaths
Retired accountant James McDermith's mad dash to retrieve a camper and pack it with belongings as a wildfire chewed closer to his home six years ago may have cost him his life. But it wasn't the flames or smoke that got him. The 70-year-old church ...
