Officials have charged a man with one count of arson after a string of suspicious fires in Norfolk, Virginia. News outlets report that the Norfolk Fire Marshal’s Office announced the arrest of Ryan Elza, 42, on Monday. He is charged …
A father and son charged in a deadly fire at a suburban New York assisted living facility had been performing a pre-Passover cleaning ritual that involves heating kitchen utensils to burn off traces of forbidden food, the Journal News reported. …
Six people are facing charges ranging from arson and manslaughter to filing a false instrument and criminal impersonation in connection to a fire at an assisted living facility in a New York City suburb earlier this year that killed a …
A Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge in a fire set at a home improvement store during the unrest last year that followed the first night of protests against police brutality sparked by the killing of George …
A woman accused of setting a fire that damaged three buildings and displaced a dozen New Jersey families earlier this month has been arrested, prosecutors said. The Hudson County prosecutor’s office announced the arrest of the 62-year-old suspect in a …
Two brothers have each been sentenced to nine years in prison for setting fire to their hookah lounge in Philadelphia as they struggled with business losses, causing more than $20 million in damages to a retail block in the city’s …
Two women linked to a mobile home fire in western Maryland last week have been charged with arson, according to Maryland fire investigators. The Office of the State Fire Marshal announced that investigators determined that the women, aged 39 and …
A man serving time for Maryland arsons is accused of starting fires in two Delaware beach towns last year. The Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal announced Thursday that it has obtained warrants for Richard Lodeski of Wilmington for …
Fire has destroyed a western Iowa business that made pipe organs for churches, schools and customers from around the world, officials said. The fire at Dobson Pipe Organ Builders in Lake City was reported around 4 p.m. on June 15, …
A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to setting fire to a renown Shakespearean theater and several other structures in four towns. Christopher Sakowicz, 20, of Stratford, faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to arson charges Friday in Bridgeport …
