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Arson That Killed 8 Horses Investigated as Hate Crime Against Gay Owner
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsFirefighters in rural Ohio are offering a $5,000 reward today for information about who was behind an Easter arson attack that killed eight horses, including a week-old colt, in a blaze being investigated as a hate crime against the animals' gay owner. Brent Whitehouse said he noticed an orange glow coming from the barn near his farmhouse in McConnelsville, Ohio, just before midnight Sunday. He ran out to the barn, but the door jammed -- its hinges likely melted from the fire's heat. "I couldn't get the door open," Whitehouse told the Ohio news website WhizNews.com. "I could still hear the ...
11-Foot Cross Burned Near Mixed-Race Family's Home
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsResidents of an affluent central Californian town are outraged by thieves who stole an 11-foot cross from a church and set it afire near the home of a mixed-race family. The wooden cross was apparently stolen between early February and early March from Saint John's Lutheran Church in Arroyo Grande. It was torched early Friday in a vacant lot near the bedroom window of a 19-year-old woman, who saw the cross engulfed in flames and called authorities, according to news reports. The teen's mother told KSBY-TV that the family was the victim of racism because she is white, her husband is black and ...
Suspect Leaves Cops a Big Tip -- His Fingertip
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThis is the kind of tip no criminal wants to leave behind for police. Cops in Florida say an arsonist-for-hire accidentally chopped off the tip of his finger while lighting a blaze in a Titusville home, allowing police to track him down without trouble. While responding to a house fire at 11:15 a.m. on Jan. 22, investigators found evidence of accelerants -- a sign the fire may have been arson, according to Sun-Sentinel.com. ...
After Mosque Arson, Oregon Somalis Fear Retribution
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- Muslim leaders in Oregon are pleading for extra police protection after a Somali-American teenager was arrested for allegedly trying to bomb a crowded Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Portland and a fire was set at a mosque where he sometimes worshipped. The FBI has opened an arson investigation into the blaze at the mosque in Corvallis, Ore., which occurred early Sunday, two days after 19-year-old suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested. Rick Bowmer, AP Imam Yosof Wanly, of Corvallis, Ore., walks along the police tape following the fire set by an alleged ...
Family: Calif. Arson Suspect Beset by Mental Problems
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Oct. 22) -- Alexander Piggee, the 23-year-old former fast-food clerk accused of torching a high-end shopping mall in Northern California, had recently lost his job and was suffering from depression, friends and family members said. "We're in shock. We just cannot believe that my son did that or what brought it on," Mary Carter told Sacramento's KCRA-TV. Placer County California Sheriff / AP Alexander Piggee was arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire at a Roseville, Calif., mall on Thursday. Piggee was booked into the Placer County Jail on Thursday on multiple charges, including ...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Mosque-Burners Are 'Terrorists'
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- Play with fire and you're bound to get burned -- maybe even by your own countrymen. That's the lesson that arsonists -- allegedly disgruntled Jewish settlers -- learned today after torching a mosque and at least a dozen copies of the Koran in Beit Fajjar, a Muslim Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank. Now they are taking heat from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who Monday evening harshly condemned of the attack, even calling his fellow Israelis terrorists. "Whoever did this is a terrorist in every sense of the word, and intended to hurt the chances for peace and ...
Fire at Tennessee Mosque Site Deemed Arson
By not in system - AOL NewsMURFREESBORO, Tenn. (Sept. 4) -- Federal investigators said Friday that a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee was arson and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The future mosque in Tennessee, like other houses of worship for Muslims across the country, has been drawn into a fierce debate surrounding a proposed Islamic community center two blocks from Manhattan's ground zero, and opponents are becoming even more hostile and aggressive. The construction site arson frightened members of the Islamic Center of ...
Man Allegedly Burns Down House Because Dinner Wasn't Ready
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(May 25) -- He wanted a hot meal -- but he ended up in the cooler. After returning to his Sissonville, W.Va., home after drinking with his friends Sunday night, Guy Edward Jones reportedly became furious with his wife because his dinner wasn't on the table. "He started throwing furniture and end tables and tore up all the glass and all the cabinets," his wife, Beverly Jones, told WSAZ. "Then he told me I had to get out because he was going to burn the place down, and if I didn't get out he would burn me with the house." ...
Mysterious Fires in Massachusetts Town Kill 2
By not in system - AOL NewsNORTHAMPTON, Mass. (Dec. 28) -- Local and state authorities in Northampton, Mass., are investigating a string of suspicious fires that killed two people and left residents shaken, officials said Sunday. In just more than an hour early Sunday, five structures -- including a single-family residence -- burned, in addition to "numerous cars," district attorney Betsy Scheibel told a news conference that included fire and police officials and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Two people were found dead on the first floor of the residence, Scheibel said. Identities of the victims are being withheld ...
22 Mystery Fires Frighten Houston Neighborhood
By not in system - AOL NewsHOUSTON (Dec. 28) -- A 4-foot pile of ash and charred debris is all that remains of the Rodriguez family's two-story garage, which had been stuffed with tools, machinery, couches and appliances when a mysterious fire ripped through it earlier this month. It was the 22nd arson since August in a historic Houston neighborhood called the Heights, known more for its comforting small-town feel in the midst of big city sprawl than for being the center of criminal activity. Most of the fires have taken place in the middle of the night and nearly always in abandoned structures, though flames have ...
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