Mo. man burns books as act of protest
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Tom Wayne amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero's Books.
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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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Â· Dutch activist exonerated under 1998 law  Â· Hitler used fire as pretext to establish dictatorship
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The rapper Nas and Universal draw fire from a state assemblyman and civil rights activists.
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The federal Bureau of Prisons said it was prompted by a report that mentioned that since most prisons did not catalog their library materials, books that incite violence and hatred could infiltrate the shelves.
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Christian protesters set fire to their television licenses outside the BBC's London offices on Friday as outrage spread over the public broadcaster's plans to air a profanity-laden musical.
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By Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 31--Grass seed farmers on the Rathdrum Prairie set their fields ablaze every summer, sending plumes of thick smoke into the skies. And the state of Idaho defends the controversial practice.
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The Japanese island of Okinawa protests at plans to revise textbook accounts of army WWII activities.
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ST. LOUIS - Missouri's Republican Party wants a Democratic-aligned group to stop circulating a get-out-the-vote flier that includes a 1960s photograph of a firefighter hosing a black man that reads: "This is what they used to do to keep us from voting."   The America Coming Together handout accuses Republicans of conspiring to suppress the black vote through intimidation and such tactics as putting "phony cops at polling places - but only in African American neighborhoods."  "They make African-American voters stand in line for hours, then turn them away from the polls," the flier reads...
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A man was charged with felony arson for allegedly disregarding the risk of wildfire while using a riding lawn mower to cut dry grass on a hot day. Sparks from the mower burned 11,000 acres and destroyed 86 homes.
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The man who turned the pain of the  Holocaust into a Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book novel has  returned to serious cartooning with a controversial book on the  Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath.
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TEHRAN -- Dozens of Iranian students burned pictures of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and threw firecrackers in an effort to disrupt his speech at a university yesterday, a presidential office spokesman said.
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Angry residents have set fire to dozens of heaps of rubbish in a worsening dispute with the authorities.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - The Bible does mention fire and brimstone - but nothing about motel rooms. Fire officials said a man set several small fires in a Best Western Heritage Inn motel room May 27, using pages from a Bible as kindling.
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Â· Press moves in on site before police search  Â· Father attacks newspaper as insensitive and cruel
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MONTREAL (CP) - A 19-year-old man charged in a firebombing at a Jewish elementary school pleaded guilty Thursday to arson.
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An arsonist imprisoned for firebombing the cars of two lawyers is using his remaining 19 years behind bars to dig up information on the judges, lawyers and corrections officers who helped put him there.