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Woman who set fire to Montgomery church gets 8 years in prison

Mar. 25, 2024 18:28 PM EDT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A 30-year-old woman in the U.S. on a student visa has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for setting fire to First Baptist Church in Montgomery in 2021, federal prosecutors said Monday. Xiaoqin Yan, a citizen of China, was convicted last year...

Arsonist sets fire to Florida Jewish center, but police do not believe it was a hate crime

Mar. 18, 2024 18:27 PM EDT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida Jewish center suffered severe damage in a weekend arson fire that police believe was set by a mentally ill homeless man who previously confronted the rabbi and others. Rabbi Chaim Slavaticki said Monday that the man accused of setting...

Elon Musk visits a Tesla plant near Berlin as production resumes after a suspected arson attack

Mar. 13, 2024 09:53 AM EDT

GRUENHEIDE, Germany (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the electric car maker's first European plant on Wednesday as production resumed at the factory just outside Berlin, about a week after a suspected arson attack cut its power supply. Musk was expected at a “team huddle”...

Power restored to Tesla factory outside Berlin a week after a suspected arson attack

Mar. 12, 2024 04:42 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Power has been restored to electric car manufacturer Tesla's factory near Berlin after a nearly one-week outage believed to have been caused by arson, a network operator said. Grid operator E.DIS said in a statement that Tesla was reconnected to the network at 8:45...

Germany's top prosecutor takes over Tesla fire investigation, suspecting terrorism

Mar. 08, 2024 09:22 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's top prosecutor has taken over the investigation into an alleged arson attack on the power supply of the electric car company Tesla near Berlin. A spokeswoman said there is an initial suspicion that a terrorist organization may have been involved in the...

Production at Tesla's plant in Germany is halted after a power outage. Officials suspect arson

Mar. 05, 2024 10:14 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Production at Tesla's electric vehicle plant in Germany came to a standstill and workers were evacuated Tuesday after a power outage that officials suspected was caused by arson. Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO, condemned the incident. The interior ministry in the state of...

Philadelphia death row inmate was never in the photo lineup that helped convict him. Now, he's free.

Mar. 01, 2024 19:08 PM EST

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Daniel Gwynn found himself on death row at 25 after Philadelphia prosecutors said in court that two witnesses had picked him out of a photo array in a fatal arson case. The photo spread had by then gone missing, and his trial lawyer in 1995 may not have asked...

House fire that left 5 children dead in Arizona doesn't appear to be arson, authorities say

Feb. 28, 2024 21:01 PM EST

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — There is no evidence an Arizona house fire that killed five children was caused by arson, authorities said Wednesday. Investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found no trace of accelerants on debris samples taken from...

Brother of dead suspect in fires at Boston-area Jewish institutions pleads not guilty

Feb. 15, 2024 14:08 PM EST

BOSTON (AP) — The brother of a man suspected in four arsons involving Jewish institutions in the Boston area in 2019 pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday to charges that he obstructed the investigation. Alexander Giannakakis, 37, formerly of Quincy, Massachusetts, was...

Man accused of torching police motorcycles in attack authorities have linked to 'Cop City' protests

Feb. 08, 2024 15:05 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — A man in Atlanta was arrested Thursday on charges that he torched eight police motorcycles last summer, one of about two dozen acts of arson that officials have linked to protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility that opponents have dubbed “Cop City.”...