The Anchorage Police Depart report that they now have a man in custody in connection with the fatal January 24th Arson fire/homicide that took place in a four-plex on the 900 block of West 23rd Street. On Tuesday, a $550,000 warrant was issued for the arrest of 51-year-old Jimmy Dale Cates for Murder I, Murder II […]
Seward man, 69-year-old William Block is believed to have perished in a house fire in Seward during the early morning hours of Tuesday, troopers report. A structure fire at at 12232 Merlin Drive was reported at 4:03 am on Tuesday and the Bear Creek Volunteer Fire Department and the Seward Fire Department responded to the address. They […]
Monitors say a 24-year-old Tibetan man set himself on fire Saturday outside a monastery in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, a region heavily populated by ethnic Tibetans who protest China’s policies in their nearby homeland. A statement Sunday from the organization “Free Tibet” said the man self-immolated Saturday afternoon, drawing a large detachment of police and […]
While most everyone is familiar with the phrase, “pants on fire,” that is exactly what happened to a lawyer during an arson trial in Florida on Wednesday. In a strange turn of events at an Arson trial in Florida, the lawyer for the defendant in the case, Stephen Gutierrez, began smoldering and his pants caught […]