Hunter Indicted in Calif. Wildfire
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SAN DIEGO Oct. 7, 2004 - A federal grand jury indicted a hunter on charges he started the largest wildfire in California history last year&#39;s Cedar Fire, which charred 273,000 acres and killed 15 people.
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A former game and fisheries director and two former game wardens are accused in indictments of misusing state funds &#151; allegations also raised in an audit that questioned the purchase of hunting gear for an African safari and use of state-owned watercraft.
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A woman has been indicted on charges saying she had three large trees up to a century old cut down on environmentally sensitive federal land near Lake Tahoe to improve her view, prosecutors said. Officials said they were not aware of any similar federal prosecutions. The woman, Patricia M. Vincent, 58, was indicted last week on charges of theft of government property and willingly damaging government property. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. The three ponderosa pines stood on a plot the Forest Service had designated as environmentally sensitive as part of a water quality plan. The trees were estimated to be 80 to 100 years old.
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A Laotian immigrant accused of  shooting several hunters in Wisconsin was charged with six  counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder on Monday,  authorities 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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A federal grand jury has indicted four people in a 1998 firebombing at the Vail ski resort that caused an estimated &#36;12 million in damage, one of the most devastating ecoterrorism attacks in U.S. history.
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The former chief operating officer of a San Carlos software company has been indicted on charges of securities fraud for an alleged scheme to inflate the company&#39;s revenue, authorities said Wednesday.
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An 18-year-old firefighter was charged with setting a weekend blaze that damaged a one-room Amish schoolhouse &#151; a fire he claimed to have discovered by driving past in the dead of night.
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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 federal grand jury indicted a man on charges of offering to help al-Qaida blow up fuel facilities in at least three states.
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By Jessie Mangaliman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 23--Bay Area park officials are on high alert today after a fire weather warning from the National Weather Service.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM Staff writer  ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST -- Sheriff's deputies ordered boaters off Pyramid Lake on Wednesday as a wildfire burning deep in the Ventura County wilderness headed east toward the recreation area and darkened the skies over Santa Clarita.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Thursday said that arrest warrants have been issued for five men accused of starting a massive wildfire at Malibu State Park that destroyed more than 50 homes and forced about 15,000 people to evacuate.
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Authorities have arrested and charged a man in a string of arsons, including one that killed 18 horses in their barn at a Port Huron-area farm.
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Firefighters were on Monday battling to contain a raging forest fire near California&#39;s Lake Tahoe that destroyed as many as 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said.
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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.
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A Southern California man who sold  the skull of a Hawaiian woman from the 18th century to  undercover agents on eBay was charged on Wednesday with a  federal crime.