Officials Seek Driver in Md. Arson Case
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Investigators want to talk to the driver of a blue van that firefighters saw leaving a housing development where dozens of homes under construction burned, authorities said Wednesday.
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Prince William County is moving to enact what legal specialists say are some of the toughest measures in the nation targeting illegal immigrants, including a provision that would direct police to check the residency status of anyone detained for breaking the law -- whether shoplifting, speeding or...
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Firefighters battled large wildfires in eastern Washington that burned a railroad trestle and grain elevator, and a rural mayor was arrested after trying to get through a barricade to protect his farm.
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Arrest warrants have been issued for five men accused of causing a Malibu fire that destroyed more than 50 homes and caused over $100 million in losses, authorities said Thursday.
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The Maryland comptroller will assist Howard County's effort to contact thousands of residents who lack health insurance but who might qualify for subsidized care based on their income levels.
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By Jannette Pippin, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Feb. 7--BEAUFORT -- A second firefighter charged in November with setting fires in Carteret County's Mill Creek community has been sentenced in the arson case.
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Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child.
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Police officer Steven Benner was on patrol in northern Anne Arundel County, driving his unmarked sport-utility vehicle through parking lots, climbing onto rooftops and peering down access roads that wind through wooded areas.
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A team of local and federal investigators are looking for the source of the extra-alarm fire at the LaSalle Bank Building amid the charred remains of the building&#39;s 29th and 30th floors.
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Montgomery County firefighters responded to Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring this morning after a construction worker found what he thought might be the remains of a pipe bomb but instead it turned out to be an item known as an improvised launching device.
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A 57-year-old man is to appear in court on charges connected to an arson attack which killed two people.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 12 -- Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, under fire by the North Carolina State Bar for his handling of the sexual assault case against three Duke University lacrosse players, mounted his defense Tuesday, contending it was his duty as a prosecutor to pursue a case...
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Investigators expect to rule out arson as the cause of a fire that killed 10 people at a group home for the elderly and mentally ill, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
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A woman who may be homeless was being sought Saturday for questioning about an apartment fire near Wrigley Field that left three men and a woman dead, authorities said.
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By Ana Ribeiro, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 24--Early Thursday afternoon, Rob Shields got a phone call at work that anybody would dread.   It was the Roanoke Fire-EMS Department.   But there was no fire.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Canadian and U.S.  police were investigating on Friday if a Washington state man  arrested for arson in Vancouver was connected with more than a  dozen suspicious fires in the Seattle area this summer.
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Arrest warrants have been issued for five men accused of causing a Malibu fire that destroyed more than 50 homes and caused over $100 million in losses, authorities said Thursday