A fire Sunday night destroyed part of a motel in Manatee County that is co-owned by a woman who disappeared two weeks ago. ...more

November 17, 2008

TAMPA Arson was the cause of a fire that caused $10,000 in damage Tuesday night to a shed used by the City of Tampa Parks Department, authorities say. ...more

November 11, 2008

A Dunedin man was arrested this morning on charges he set fire to a converted shed owned by a man he had earlier threatened, Clearwater police said. ...more

September 29, 2008

Derek Derousse might have had a chance for a lenient sentence had his life been free of trouble before 2007. ...more

September 25, 2008

An unoccupied mobile home was destroyed in a Friday evening blaze and investigators are checking to see if arson caused the fire. ...more

September 7, 2008

SEBRING An unoccupied mobile home was destroyed in a Friday evening blaze and investigators are investigating to see if arson caused the fire. No one was injured in the fire. The trailer home, located at 3572 Green Acre Way, was "totally involved" when firefighters arrived on scene, according to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. A former tenant of the destroyed mobile home, Dennis Ferrell, was on scene of the fire, according to the sheriff's department. Ferrell was evicted from the home about a week ago. State fire officials have been called in to investigate the fire. ...more

September 6, 2008

A man in a fistfight with his stepfather in the front yard of their Manatee County home this morning set fire to the house when he realized his mother was calling 911, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 24, 2008

Peter Padilla's drug debts were more important to him than his brand new Cadillac Escalade. That's what the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says in court documents charging Padilla, 49, with arson, burning to defraud an insurer, making false insurance claims, dealing in stolen property and making a false report to law enforcement. ...more

August 21, 2008

I oppose the fire tax assessment bill. I've run the New Testament Church and Mission for 32 years. In those years I have only needed to call the fire department once, which was found to be arson. ...more

August 21, 2008

Arson detectives are investigating a pre-dawn house fire that injured two men in the High Point area of Pinellas County, Largo Fire Rescue reported. ...more

August 10, 2008