Hunter charged with starting Cedar fire
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SAN DIEGO ---- A hunter was indicted Wednesday on federal charges that he started a blaze that grew into the Cedar fire, the largest wildfire in California history, and later lied about it.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 13--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- A tractor cutting brush at the Lakewood Ranch Corporate Park sparked a brushfire Tuesday afternoon that burned three acres and left the strong smell of burning wood lingering in the air.
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TELLER, Alaska - A contract worker from Anchorage was assaulted with a meat cleaver as he worked on a fire prevention system at the school in Teller, Alaska State Troopers said.
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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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The suspect in the shooting deaths of six deer hunters in northwest Wisconsin told investigators he fired at the hunters after they made racial slurs and shot at him, according to an affidavit released Tuesday.
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WATERLOO, Iowa - Firefighters had to be called after a plan to evict a swarm of bees went up in smoke. Residents used gasoline to start a fire in hopes of smoking out a hive of bees from under their home Thursday when the house caught on fire, Battalion Chief Virgil Powell said...
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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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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Prosecutors have charged a 79-year-old woman who police say injured two officers when she struck them with a wooden cane.
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Authorities on Monday arrested a fifth man suspected of being involved in a series of arson fires in suburban Washington, a law enforcement source said.
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A Hmong immigrant suspected of killing six fellow deer hunters in the Wisconsin woods told investigators that he opened fire after they took a shot at him first and used racial slurs, according to court papers filed yesterday.
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By Wendy Leonard Deseret Morning News  A woman burning sticks and weeds in her back yard started a fire that was much more than she expected and forced the evacuation of at least 20 homes on the east bench of Layton Thursday.
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BALTIMORE Dec 16, 2004 - A security guard who worked at a development where a series of fires burned several homes has been arrested and charged in the case, a source close to the investigation said Thursday.
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A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted a man who allegedly started the largest wildfire in California history.
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By Gene Warner, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 2--A fire at a Grand Island home early Friday caused an estimated $400,000 damage and led to the arrest of the 44-year-old homeowner, who was accused of interfering with firefighters and police officers.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  LINVILLE GORGE, N.C. - Two wildfires have charred more than 1,200 acres of the parched Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina, officials said today.
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By The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Feb. 10--KINGWOOD -- The couple accused of burning Harry Paul Hershman's Tunnelton area home waived their right to a preliminary hearing Friday in Preston County Magistrate Court.
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By Erika Ray, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 10--When flames erupted from a barn stocked with bales of straw and hay east of Findlay in October, the Vanlue Volunteer Fire Department was notified of the emergency.   Six firefighters responded out of the 24 on its roster.