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Pennsylvania state police have charged Lackawanna County’s deputy corner with arson, alleging he tried to pay $40,000 to an undercover trooper to burn a building he owned in a bid to collect insurance money. The Times-Tribune in Scranton reported on … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

Fire investigators tried to determine Wednesday whether a man arrested for investigation of a serial arson spree in the San Fernando Valley served time for torching bars and restaurants in Japan a decade ago while he was in the Marines. … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

Three college honor students have each been sentenced to 90 days in prison for burning down a vacant warehouse in East Lyme, Connecticut. Christian Bardoli, Matias Francone, and Alexander Tsuji pleaded guilty in New London Superior Court Monday to misdemeanor … View full post on Insurance JournalNews from Insurance Journal

Investigators say they’ve ruled out arson as the possible cause of a fire that damaged 11 vehicles parked in a southern New Jersey school bus yard. But the cause of Thursday’s fire in Bordentown Township still remained a mystery on … View full post on Insurance JournalNews from Insurance Journal

A Texas commission looking into an arson investigation that led to the execution of the man convicted of starting the fatal fire decided last Friday to move ahead with a report on the case even though its authority is not … View full post on Insurance JournalNews from Insurance Journal

A fire that destroyed a controversi al Civil War-themed chapel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was set intentionally, police said. There are no official suspects, but investigators are seeking three … View full post on Insurance Journal

A Texas panel is expected to review a final report that clears fire officials of wrongdoing in their arson investigation that led to a man's 2004 execution. The Texas Forensic Science Commission … View full post on Insurance Journal

The top arson investigator in Connecticut's largest city has been arrested in alleged fire-for-hire plot to burn her car for the insurance money. Veteran Bridgeport police Detective Kimberly Biehn … View full post on Insurance Journal

A pair of fires that happened within minutes of each other may be arson and a southern Kentucky fire chief believes they may also be connected. Russellville Police Department Chief Barry Dill told … View full post on Insurance Journal

A Tallahassee man has been arrested on charges of arson, insurance fraud and grand theft after state investigaors said they determined the suspect intentionally set fire to his yacht, a 50-foot … View full post on Insurance Journal