California man imprisoned for cross-burning
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A U.S. district court judge sentenced a 21-year-old man on Friday to two years in prison for burning a wooden cross outside a Catholic Church in northern California to threaten a priest from Rwanda.
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They've stolen cars, used drugs and forged checks. When California is burning, they fight fires.
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If she were a prosecutor anywhere else in California, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris wouldn't get a second look for using the state's tough "three-strikes" law against a man who spent more than six years in prison after setting his 6-year-old son on fire.
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By Josh Richman  A San Pablo man who broadcast child pornography over the Internet and tried to meet a woman whom he believed would let him have sex with a 9-year-old child was sentenced Friday to six and a half years in federal prison.
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An appeals court Thursday threw out a former U.S. Forest Service employee's 12-year prison sentence for starting the biggest wildfire in Colorado history.
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Â· Dutch activist exonerated under 1998 law  Â· Hitler used fire as pretext to establish dictatorship
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A San Francisco performance artist, out on bail from charges that he prematurely torched the Burning Man festival's namesake effigy in August, is back in jail for allegedly trying to set fire to the historic Grace Cathedral, police said Monday.
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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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A couple who tortured a man they had befriended are each been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
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A man has pleaded no contest to a federal misdemeanor for starting a fire in the Mendocino National Forest a year ago that burned 6,058 acres and cost &#36;33 million to suppress.
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A man who mistreated three children, turning their home into a "prison camp", is jailed for three years.
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A California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution for selling pirated software online.
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To prosecutors, Robert "Roy" van de Hoek is a vandal with pruning shears. To supporters of native California shrubs and trees, he's a martyr. Once again, he's in court.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A man once called one of the Internet's most notorious pirates of music and movies was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for blowing up a portable toilet, prosecutors said.
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A California man was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison Monday for attending an al-Qaida terrorist training camp in Pakistan and plotting to attack targets in the United States.
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Standing on the roof of California's death row, Warden Jill Brown looks down at the exercise yards and sees troubling possibilities. An old masonry wall with razor wire on top and a strip of grass are practically all that stand between condemned men and the San Francisco Bay.
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A retired postman who burned or attempted to destroy 40,000 letters is jailed for four months.