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Virginia teen pleads guilty to setting black church on fire

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theGRIO REPORT - On Tuesday morning a Virginia teen admitted in court to setting a church with predominantly black congregation church, according to WDBJ...
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'Sleepwalking,' dreaming of BBQ, woman sets home on fire

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - A woman in Lexington, Kentucky is telling police that when she set her apartment on fire while her heavily-medicated son slept inside, she was sleepwalking...
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Florida lieutenant governor's accuser calls in the FBI

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theGRIO REPORT - Lawyers for a woman who accused Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll of carrying on an affair with a female aide is calling on the FBI to investigate a trashcan fire in her office...
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Pastor and sister charged with arson

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A Baton Rouge pastor and her sister were arrested Thursday for allegedly setting her million-dollar home ablaze...
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White supremacist burns down black family home

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CHICAGO - A self-proclaimed white supremacist from Joliet faces charges for allegedly setting fire to an African-American neighbor's house back in 2007...
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Mass. man faces sentencing in Obama-inspired fire

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A white Massachusetts man convicted of burning down a predominantly black church because he was angry with President Barack Obama's election faces sentencing in federal court...
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Suspect in NYC woman's burning appears in court

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NEW YORK (AP) - As Deloris Gillespie went up the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man was waiting...
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Arrest made in 'torching' of NY woman

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A man reeking of gasoline walked into a police station overnight and implicated himself in the death of a woman hosed down with an accelerant and set ablaze in the elevator of her apartment building, authorities said Sunday.
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Halloween weekend fires down by half in Detroit

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - With Halloween weekend coming to an end, Detroit has seen a marked change in the number of arsons and specific fires that once plagued the city...
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Boy to firefighter: Thanks for catching me

Angelica Razack
TODAY - 'I just happened to be in the right place at the right time,' said McGovery...
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