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GLENDALE, Ariz. — An early morning garage fire forced nine people from the home of a jailed Iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter because she had become too "westernized." Glendale Fire Department spokesman Daniel Valenzuela says firefighters kept the blaze from spreading to other parts of the home. He says there's no indication the fire was intentionally set. [widget:flywheel_links] ...

SAN DIEGO — It was a bittersweet moment yesterday when John Little, 77, and his best friend’s widow thanked firefighters for a rescue last month at Cabrillo National Monument. Little and Harold Reed, 91, friends for 50 years, were in Reed’s pickup truck when it plunged 500 feet down a ravine Oct. 12. Reed died 10 days later at a ...

A paramedic accused of misconduct was bullied at work because of being a naturist, a hearing has been told. Angela Armitage, who works at Honley Ambulance Station near Huddersfield, is accused of stealing money from patients between 2003 and 2007. Colleague Pat Kenworthy told the Health Professions' Council committee that a small group of employees had gossiped about Mrs Armitage's lifestyle. ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - Two members of a volunteer fire department are charged with setting fire to a vacant house in Prince George's County so that they could put it out. Jerome Engle, 46, of Bowie and James R. Martinez, 24, of Damascus were indicted Thursday in the March 17, 2008 fire in Riverdale. The charges include second-degree arson, burglary and ...

DETROIT - Nearly a year after Detroit firefighter Walter Harris died inside a burning home, authorities announced charges against a man they say paid an arsonist to set the deadly fire. The fee? $20. [widget:featured_career_firefighter] Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Thursday that first-degree murder and arson charges have been filed against Mario Willis, a 27-year-old businessman. Investigators say he paid ...

MONTCLAIR, N.J. - A Montclair State University student has been charged with witness tampering in connection with a small fire in a dormitory at the northern New Jersey school. University spokeswoman Paula Maliandi said Thursday that Lauren Shinn, a 19-year-old Dumont resident, was freed after posting $25,000 bail. [widget:news__brand_new_store] The charge stems from a Sept. 23 fire on the sixth floor ...

BALTIMORE - Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski asked Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to assist the family of a Baltimore fire cadet killed in a training exercise whose death benefit claim was rejected by the Department of Justice. Writing to Holder a day after The Baltimore Sun reported that a nearly $300,000 claim on behalf of the two children of Racheal ...