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    CLEVELAND – Six vehicles were set on fire early on Tuesday in an east side neighborhood in Cleveland, sparking an arson investigation. Cleveland fire officials said the cars, trucks and SUVs were torched around 4:30 a.m. on Lampson Road and Endora Road in the Euclid-Green neighborhood. http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/multiple-cars-set-on-fire-in-cleveland-police-investigating

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In St. Louis, authorities have charged David Lopez Jackson with arson in connection with two of seven church fires in a predominantly African-American part of the St. Louis area. Even though Jackson, 35, from St. Louis has been charged for the fires, federal investigators said there is no evidence of a hate crime. The charges […]

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Someone is deliberately setting fires to churches in St. Louis and police are looking for the culprit. Six out of seven of the torched houses of worship are predominantly African-American. The latest blaze at mostly white Shrine of St. Joseph Catholic Church is in a majority black area. This is a “very similar type of […]

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Who is burning black churches? Twitter outrage grows as seventh church burns down in 10 days http://t.co/8urzBHmOLy — Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) July 1, 2015 Mt.…

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  Three people have been charged with a fourth-degree felony after a series of fires at a homeless camp in the Flats. Arson investigators from the Cleveland Fire Department arrested the suspects on Friday night. 24-year-old Izill Sims, 31-year-old Judith Weihrouch and 42-year-old Joseph Corbett appeared in court on Monday. A Cleveland Municipal Court spokesman said […]

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  Arson is suspected of killing a husband and wife in Little Rock early Wednesday morning. Cassandra Davis with Little Rock Police said fire department investigators determined a fire at 405 Markwood Road was a result of arson. The deaths of Donald Creer, 50, and Donna Creer, 57, are now considered ‘suspicous.’ Firefighters were dispatched to […]

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An Ohio man has been indicted on a federal hate crimes charge in what authorities say was a racially motivated arson at a church with a mostly black congregation.

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An Ohio man has been indicted on a federal hate crimes charge in what authorities say was a racially motivated arson at a church with a mostly black congregation.

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The state fire marshal has ruled that the cause of the April 18 fire at 15806 Arbor Trail in Newbury at the home of the late R&B star Gerald Levert is “undetermined.” State Fire Marshal spokesman Shane Cartmill said that, even though the home was destroyed by the fire, investigators completed a thorough on-scene investigation, collected fire […]