WASHINGTON (AP) — The death of a New Jersey man who set himself on fire on the National Mall was the result of his long fight with mental illness, not a political statement, his family said. John Constantino, 64, of Mount Laurel, N.J., poured the contents of a canister of gasoline on himself in the […]
YUBA CITY, Calif. — There are some people in Sarah Garibay‘s life who might be angry enough to burn down her house; the self-described former…
A man in a business suit doused himself with gasoline and tried to set himself on fire in front of the Exxon Building in downtown…
The extremes people will go to in order to ensure their exes feel some sort of pain after the relationship ends. A Florida man…
The law frowns upon citizens taking matters into their own hands and dishing their own brand of street justice. A woman in India took…
Hip Hop Hooray for Nasir Jones aka Nas! The rapper was apparently watching the news when he saw a story about a father with…
Tom and the crew open the show talking about the heat wave occurring on the west coast, the death of 19 firefighters in Arizona, the death at the Cirque Du Soleil and Mellody Hobson‘s Chicago reception starring Prince.
YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) — The 19 firefighters killed Sunday in Arizona were part of an elite crew known for working on the front lines of region’s worst fires, including two this season that came before the team descended on the erratic fire that claimed their lives. All but one member of the Prescott-based Hotshot crew […]
Anne Sullivan was a gifted athlete filled with energy who came out of high school with a focus on being a firefighter. But about a month after graduating from the Houston Fire Department Academy, the 24-year-old was among four firefighters who died while searching for people they thought might be trapped in a blazing Houston […]
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Fire tore through a family’s eastern Pennsylvania home on Mother’s Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while their mother was across the street doing laundry at a friend’s house. The blaze broke out around 11:55 p.m. Sunday at the single-family home in Pottsville. Firefighters later […]
A Miami woman is possibly heading to prison after she set her boyfriend’s apartment on fire. Miami native, Deborah Baldwin, 52, set her boyfriend, Levandous Henderson, 48, clothes and furniture on fire with a bottle of grill lighter fluid and one match. According to WSVN Miami, Baldwin found recent text message conversations between Henderson and […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Firefighters with cadaver dogs were searching early Wednesday through the rubble of a popular restaurant flattened by a natural gas explosion and massive fire that sent black smoke high over Kansas City‘s upscale Country Club Plaza shopping and dining district. Authorities said 14 people were known to have been injured […]
