StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The first fire was started in a van carrying oxygen and chemical tanks that was parked in the driveway of a house, the station reported. The tanks didn't explode, but the fire spread to the garage and almost to the house.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Spokane woman who helped set the a 2001 fire that destroyed the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture has been sentenced to three years in prison.
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A fed-up resident invited the city to party on her troubled block. She got more than she bargained for.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Arsonists strike 10 times times at the building site of Manchester's new Children's Hospital.
Minipundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I was stumbling around Wikipedia, as I am wont to do, I stumbled upon the page for Endless Love, a schmaltzy early-80s Zeffirelli romance flick. The movie's best known now for its title song, but I did a double-take...
Palapye.com News Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
source: Standay Standard by REUBEN PITSE 17.08.2008 4:13:06 P The Botswana bus and combi industry has been invaded by gangsters who are hiring hit men to take out their competitors – Sunday Standard investigations have revealed. The Botswana Police Service is understood to be poring over a hit list of local public transport operators that has been passed to [...]
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Nine houses and the charred remains of 17 others are all that’s left of the old Carrollton subdivision in Bridgeton. The neighborhood, which in 1989 had more than 1,700 homes, was purchased by Lambert-St. Louis International Airport for its runway expansion. (Matt Hathaway/P-D)BRIDGETON — Fewer than a dozen houses still stand in the old Carrollton subdivision, and their owner, Lambert-St. Louis International...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
() Arsonists try to burn Columbia H.S.By ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHCOLUMBIA, Ill. - Unknown suspects tried to burn down Columbia High School late Sunday but the building sustained little damage, fire department officials said.Fire Chief Mike Roediger said someone threw a flammable liquid - possibly gasoline - at the building and set the liquid on fire around 11 p.m. He said the structure is fine, other...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Firefighters in Stoke-on-Trent call for derelict pubs to be demolished to stop them being targeted by arsonists.
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Comoros police have been caught off guard when unknown attackers attacked their premises.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
As investigations in the recent fire outbreaks at Machame Girls' Secondary School near Moshi are underway, regional authorities have ordered three dormitories, including two gutted by fire last week, be demolished.
This is Bath (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The boss of a taxi firm today spoke of his horror at an arson attack that left four of his workers lucky to be alive.Staff have been left emotionally scarred after arsonists firebombed the office of Abbey Taxis.Police are appealing for witnesses after the attack on the premises of the city's biggest taxi company at South Parade, off Manvers Street.The incident, which happened just after 6.30pm on Saturday...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
ARSON squad officers are investigating a fire which gutted a vacant commercial property in Inglewood this afternoon.
Heavy-Handed Politics (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
“We don’t look to arsonists to help put out fires but we do look to politicians to help solve financial crises that they played a major role in creating. How did the government help create the current financial mess? Let me count the ways... Government laws and policies at federal, state and local levels have had the net effect of putting both borrowers and lenders way out on a limb. Yet, when that...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Part 2Devushka and BabushkaBefore leaving Mongolia we once more made plans with Lloyd to meet up in Irkutsk. We spent our final day in Ulan Bataar looking around the city. We tried to visit the Theatre Museum reputed to have a great collection of puppets a passion of both Berrsquos and mine but the museum is closed on Saturdays and Sundays opening only for the quieter days during the week p
