Boy cleared of deliberate burning
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A 14-year-old boy who admitted setting his friend on fire did not intend to do it, a jury decides.
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Children clustered around the charred body, its features melted into an unrecognizable black mask. The man, accused of being a thief, was the fourth person to be burned alive this month in this western Kenyan city.
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A teenage boy is treated for serious burns, including to his face, after he catches fire at a derelict house.
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The only Army officer charged with a crime as a result of the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has been cleared of all criminal responsibility in the case after a general this week dismissed the one conviction against him and wiped away the sentence.
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A man facing firearm and wounding charges after a double shooting at a travellers' camp is being freed on bail.   Thomas Cleary was arrested after brothers Patrick and Martin Doherty suffered alleged gunshot injuries at the site in East Howdon, North Tyneside, last May.
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India's Harbhajan Singh is cleared of racially abusing Australia's Andrew Symonds but fined for offensive behaviour.
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A 15-year-old boy arrested in connection with the shooting murder of an 11-year-old boy has been released from custody, police said Thursday.
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Philadelphia -- A fast-moving arson fire killed six people in a rowhouse before dawn Saturday, four of them children, police said.
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An inquest hears that a man blamed for a fire which killed his father, brother and himself was suffering from 'paranoia.'
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A remarkable operation to replace the skin and hair of a five-year-old burns victim is said to have gone very well.
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ENVIRONMENT Agency experts were last night investigating after a blaze in a wood pile at a skip hire company.   The agency said a fire at the same site last year polluted the Dee, but this time the river was clean.
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The officer who shot one of two brothers arrested during an anti-terrorism raid on an innocent Muslim family's house in London was cleared of any wrongdoing by a police watchdog.
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Gary Payton, Sam Cassell and Jason Caffey were cleared of assaulting a male exotic dancer and his stripper fiance during a confrontation outside a downtown Toronto strip club in 2003.
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SCHELLSBURG, Pa. - A teen accused of stuffing toilet paper in a toaster to burn down his relatives' trailer faces new charges of allegedly putting household and automotive chemicals in his family's food and drinks, state police said.  Adam Hillegas, 19, was charged with arson in the Jan.
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A 7-year-old boy was charged with arson and second-degree homicide for setting a house fire that killed a retired school guidance counselor.
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A judge on Thursday cleared a 38-year-old man of all charges in connection with the 1988 Omagh bombing, which killed 29 people in what was Northern Ireland's worst atrocity in 30 years of violence.
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Police and prosecutors study the implications of the Omagh bomb trial after a man is cleared of all charges.