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A police officer in Birmingham, Ala., has been arrested after a series of arson fires in abandoned houses in the city and in a suburb to its north.

The mother of suspected serial arsonist Harry Burkhart, whose arrest on German fraud charges allegedly triggered her son’s arson rampage, has been ordered extradited to her home country.  Magistrate Charles F. Eick ordered the extradition of Dorothee Burkhart over an objection from her son’s defense attorney, who told the court the mother was a vital witness to his client’s criminal case. Harry...

LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that the German mother of a serial arson suspect should be extradited from the United States to face numerous fraud charges.The U.S. attorney's office says, however, that Thursday's ruling does not mean that Dorothee Burkhart will be immediately returned to Germany.Read More...More on Video

Police are today examining the caravan and minibus used by the Philpott family, in an attempt to determine how a fire which killed their six children was started.

POLICE investigating a number of theories after a fleet of Domino's Pizza mopeds was torched early yesterday on the eve of State of Origin.

Charlie Abutbul: “I’ve already retired. I don’t understand why they arrested me.”

Parishioners at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church, in Croxteth, Liverpool, were shocked to discover that the attack had been taken out by such young children.

The arson attack targeting two Daewoo commuter buses in Lahore shows that the scourge prevalent in Karachi is now spreading its tentacles to yet another metropolis. The first attack occurred in Samanabad on Friday where gun-totting thugs stopped the bus and started firing into the air. The passengers and bystanders had to run for their life. While they torched the bus and were scurrying away, ....

A mother and child have escape injury during an arson attack on a neighbour's house in Ballymoney on Saturday.

GREEK MILITANTS have claimed responsibility for an arson attack against the German head of an EU task force to Greece.

Mick Philpott, the father of the six children killed in last week's house fire, breaks down as he speaks at press conferenceThe father of six children who were killed in a house fire in Derby early on Friday has spoken of his anguish as police revealed that petrol had been poured through the letterbox in an arson attack.Mick Philpott wept as he spoke at a press conference on Wednesday morning w...

Police believe a fire that killed six brothers and sisters in Derby was arson and are now set to investigate any potential grudges against the family, whose father has 17 children to five different women.

Orange County firefighters have contained a grass fire that burned five acres in Tustin this afternoon.

James Brown, 24, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, faces charges of Dead Bodies-Disinterment of cousins Demesha Hunt, 25, and Renisha Landers, 24, and with arson and disinterment of Natasha Curtis, 29, and Vernithia McCrary, 28.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state authorities are blaming arson for a wildfire this month that burned 1,100 acres, destroyed three homes and injured three firefighters in Long Island's Suffolk County.

Inmates: Harassing this guard will only get you in trouble. Three robotic prison guards are being tested at a prison in the South Korean city of Poha…

POLICE NOW believe that a fire that claimed the lives of a Co Tyrone mother and her daughter was started deliberately. The PSNI has urged the person or persons who may have started the blaze to come forward.

German prosecutors have charged Bayern Munich centre-back Breno with arson.

German prosecutors have indicted the Brazilian defender for a fire that burned down his villa last year, although a date for his trial has not been set.

German prosecutors have charged Bayern Munich defender Breno with aggravated arson after his rented villa was burnt down last year. Prosecutors in Munich announced their decision on Wednesday.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A 33-year-old homeless man who was rescued by Las Vegas firefighters from a smoke-choked room is facing arson and attempted murder charges in a fire that caused minor damage on an unfinished floor last month while dozens of guests evacuated upper floors at the Golden Nugget hotel-casino, a fire official said Monday....

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Law enforcement should carry out a prompt and effective investigation into the attempted arson on March 24, 2012, at the office of The Group of Free People in Nizhny Novgorod. (Moscow) – Law enforcement should carry out a prompt and effective investigation into the attempted arson on March 24, 2012, at the offic...

A preservative in toothpastes, hand soaps, underarm deodorants and other everyday products is getting a second life, helping crime scene investigators preserve evidence of arson, scientists reported here today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

For a town in northern Nigeria already living in fear of a violent Islamist group, the arson of school buildings is the latest outrage.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City man accused of four New Year's Day arson attacks, including one on an Islamic cultural center, has been indicted on state and federal hate crimes charges....

Students of a local school here went on a rampage and resorted to arson following the death of their teacher in a road accident on the Banda-Allahabad National Highway.

An arsonist’s attack on a Shiite mosque in a Brussels suburb left its imam dead. Authorities attributed the attack to tensions between the Shiite and Sunni communities, not to anti-Muslim feeling.

An apparent arson attack on a mosque in the Belgian capital killed the institution's imam and left another person injured, a police spokeswoman said Monday.

The re-election of Alpha Shelembe to the ANC leadership of the party's Moses Mabhida region has sparked fears that he might be reassigned to the crippled Msunduzi municipality.

Local police said Saturday that they had cracked an arson killing 13 people and injuring one in Taiyuan, capital of North China's Shanxi Province.

A 27-YEAR-OLD woman has been remanded in custody after appearing in court on charges relating to the horrific arson attack on Dana Vulin.

A LAD has become one of the youngest criminals in the UK after admitting his part in an arson attack

Crime by minors is soaring in Australia as nearly 300 children under 10 years have been charged with offences like rape and arson, a newspaper has revealed.

South Korea charges Chinese man with attempted arson for hurling Molotov cocktails at the Japanese embassy in Seoul.

A village head in China's Hubei province - reportedly angry about corruption - is arrested for burning more than a dozen government offices down.

This woman is super-duper cray cray! Christina Paz faces arson charged after she set her childhood house ablaze. Her reasoning: Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails music told her that her parents and neighbor wanted to kill her, chop her up, and dipose of her. Creepy!!! Paz was read her rights but voluntarily discussed what hapened with the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Animal rights activists have claimed responsibility for a suspected arson fire that damaged 14 tractor-trailer rigs parked at a major feedlot in central California.

Investigation into spate of arsons and shootings continues

A 40-year old unemployed truck driver, charged with hate crime and arson for throwing molotov cocktails at five places, including a Hindu temple and an Islamic centre here, was upset at being denied entry to use its bathroom and being thrown out of a store.

A German man charged in Los Angeles over a series of arson attacks is also wanted in connection with a fire in his home country, prosecutors say.

// Hollywood arson suspect Harry Burkhart is set to be arraigned this afternoon on 37 felony arson charges, stemming from over 50 fires set in the Hollywood area this week ... and we're covering the hearing LIVE.Stay tuned ... TMZHollywood Arson Suspect In Court -- Arraigned on 37 Arson Charges [LIVE]

German prosecutors say the man suspected in a string of Los Angeles attacks is also under investigation.

Ray Lazier Lengend was charged late Tuesday with five counts of criminal possession of a weapon, four counts of arson and one count of arson as a hate crime for the attack on the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center.

Sheriff calls German national Harry Burkhart the county's "most dangerous arsonist"

Mother of Harry Burkhart also wanted in Germany on 19 counts of fraud

Los Angeles police have arrested a man after a spree of more than 50 arson attacks, but are refusing to confirm a possible Canadian connection.

Police arrested a Hollywood man believed to be a German citizen yesterday in connection with a wave of 53 arson fires across Los Angeles that terrorised neighborhoods over the holiday weekend.

 A man has been detained as a person of interest in the string of arson fires that have swept Los Angeles over the holiday week. INSIDE EDITION has the latest.

Twelve more suspected arson fires broke out early Monday in the Los Angeles area, and a "person of interest" was taken into custody for questioning ...

Police and firefighters are patrolling neighbourhoods in L.A. after 13 blazes overnight Friday

The Brooklyn man charged with heinously burning his elderly boss to death in an elevator attack was held without bail Monday morning.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Deadly violence, arson and widespread voter confusion marred Democratic Republic of Congo's second post-war election on Monday, raising concerns of a protracted dispute over the outcome.

A man charged in relation to an arson attack on Castlebar Garda station is due to appear before Galway District Court this morning.

An Indian court has found 31 Hindus guilty of killing 33 Muslims during the violent religious and communal riots that rocked the state of Gujarat in 2002. They were found guilty of murder, attempted murder, arson, rioting and criminal conspiracy for burning victims alive in a house. The victims had sought shelter in the house from rioters, who set the building on fire. Forty-two people were acq...