"Bob the Builder" sock is clue in arson case
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Thanks to a "Bob the Builder" sock, police in the Dutch town of 't Zandt say they have caught their main suspect in a string of arson attacks: a 20 year-old caught red-handed setting another fire late on Tuesday.
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A prosecutor ordered an investigation today into whether suspected arson in forests could be considered terrorism.
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Highway security videotape could hold clues about who torched a stolen car and triggered a fierce wildfire near the hills southeast of Los Angeles.
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LATROBE, Pa. - Police said they had two substantial clues in two theft cases - a suspect's name and telephone number.  Bradley J. Hightower, 23, of Latrobe, gave his first name and telephone number when he applied for a job Oct. 12 at Rolling Hills Industry, Latrobe police said.
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Graffiti scrawled on walls of Islamic primary school in Uden links fire to murder of flimmaker Van Gogh. THE HAGUE - A fire has caused major damage to an Islamic primary school in the southern Dutch town of
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Investigators believe more than one person was involved in a series of fires at an upscale housing development, and the arsonists tried but failed to burn nearly a dozen other homes in the subdivision outside Washington.
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By Terrie Morgan-Besecker, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 12--WILKES-BARRE -- A federal magistrate has recommended that Denise Carey be permitted to continue with a lawsuit that said the city retaliated against her for speaking out against the closure of a fire station near her home.
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CHICAGO-While police and fire officials sifted through charred remains of the 29th floor to determine the cause of Monday nightâs blaze at 135 S. LaSalle St.
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Paul Addis, a San Francisco prankster with a history of outrageous stunts, won't confess to setting the Man on fire. But he thinks the early burn sent the right message about an event he says has "become just as nefarious a cultural programmer as General Electric or Disney."
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An apartment building fire killed three people, and authorities said Sunday they were investigating the blaze as a possible case of arson.
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CALGARY (CP) - Police have arrested a second man suspected of starting a house fire that killed two young children late last year.
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A fire which extensively damaged a derelict buiding in east Belfast was started deliberately, it is believed.
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All possible motives remain open to investigators for the arson that destroyed a dozen unoccupied homes at an upscale suburban development opposed by environmentalists, a fire official said Tuesday.
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Hours before a fatal fire at a southwest Missouri group home, a maintenance man trying to fix a furnace shorted the electrical wiring running through the attic where investigators believe the fire started, according to documents released Tuesday.
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Even with more arrests made and suspects still being interviewed, authorities say they have not found a motive for an arson that caused an estimated $10 million in
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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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When a wildfire burns through tens of thousands of acres of California brush, tracking a suspected arsonist sounds like a classic case of looking for the needle in the haystack.