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A man who tried to set fire to his home to avoid having sex with his wife was jailed for two years. Svetin Gulisija, 26, from...

A man accused of setting a fire that killed a couple and their four-month-old son in La Ronge, Sask., has pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal negligence causing death. Blake Norman faced three counts of manslaughter and one of arson in the deaths of Justin Charles, 20, Marsha McKenzie...

(CNN) -- An explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant Saturday ignited a fire and forced the evacuation of some 750 people, an official said. The local fire department received a call about an explosion at Chemical Coatings Inc. around 3 p.m. ET, said Denise Michaud, Caldwell County...

<div>A fire at Sable Fish Packers on Cape Sable Island Thursday has left anywhere from 50 to 80 people out of work for at least a month. "Sometime yesterday morning, before everyone came to work, it appears we had an electrical fire in our herring processing room. It started from a piece of...

Rainy weather prompted the Alberta government Tuesday to lift a provincewide fire ban put in place last week. Rain has substantially reduced the number of fires in the province which has lessened the demands placed on firefighters. However, municipal and provincial park fire bans may still be...

St. John's firefighters quickly extinguished a fire that broke out early Monday morning at a downtown bar. A fire was discovered around 6 a.m. in a washroom off the deck of Junctions, a bar off McMurdo's Lane, which runs between Water Street and Duckworth Street. The fire was contained to the...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., -- An American Airlines jetliner was diverted safely to Little Rock, Ark., Sunday afternoon after a reported engine fire, officials said. Flight 1720, an MD 80, had been making its way to Washington Dulles International Airport from Dallas-Fort Worth with 136 passengers and...

Residents and campers at a provincial park west of Red Deer are on evacuation alert after a forest fire damaged about 50 hectares of land on Saturday. Crimson Lake Provincial Park, about 90 kilometres west of Red Deer, was evacuated at about 7:30 p.m. MT after Rocky Mountain House RCMP were...

Two Nova Scotia fishermen spent four hours in a life-raft Sunday after their lobster boat caught fire off Yarmouth. The fire aboard the vessel Double Identity broke out at about 6 a.m. Trent Shaw and his son Travis jumped off the sinking boat and into a life-raft. The two men drifted for about...

Residents and campers at a provincial park west of Red Deer are on evacuation alert after a forest fire damaged about 50 hectares of land on Saturday. Crimson Lake Provincial Park, about 90 kilometres west of Red Deer, was evacuated at about 7:30 p.m. MT after Rocky Mountain House RCMP were...

Two Nova Scotia fishermen spent four hours in a life-raft Sunday after their lobster boat caught fire off Yarmouth. The fire aboard the vessel Double Identity broke out at about 6 a.m. Trent Shaw and his son Travis jumped off the sinking boat and into a life-raft. The two men drifted for about...

Yemeni forces opened fire on demonstrators in three cities on Wednesday, killing at least four and wounding scores in escalating bloodshed that could ramp up public fury at the president's refusal to step down. In the capital Sanaa, forces fired on a crowd of tens of thousands marching to the...

Area residents are told to stay inside during the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tuesday after an explosion and a fire dramatically escalated the crisis...

A new study is raising questions about when ancient human ancestors in Europe learned to control fire, one of the most important steps on the long path to civilization. A review of 141 archaeological sites across Europe shows habitual use of fire beginning between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago...

AHMADABAD, India – An Indian court sentenced 11 Muslims to death Tuesday after finding them guilty of setting fire to a train in which 60 Hindus were killed nine years ago, an act that triggered one of India's worst outbursts of communal violence. The 11 were among the 31 Muslims who were...

-- More than 100 people were injured, 12 of them critically, when a metal platform at a soccer stadium collapsed during a youth tournament in Lima, Peru, the state-run news agency Andina reported. The viewing stand installed in Monumental Stadium in the Ate district was packed with people and...

-- Public safety officials in Texas Thursday released a video of a man throwing a Molotov cocktail at the governor's mansion in 2008, hoping it and a suspect sketch will lead to his identification. The Department of Public Safety and its Texas Rangers division are offering a $50,000 reward for...

Fire struck homes at opposite ends of Newfoundland on Wednesday night. In Paradise, just west of St. John's, firefighters were called to Summit Drive shortly after 10:30 p.m. Flames could be seen coming out of the house, which was destroyed by the blaze. Crews with the St. John's Regional Fire...

About 200 people were forced from their apartments in a Toronto highrise after an electrical fire tore through part of the building late Tuesday night. Lorne Buckingham, Toronto Fire Services division commander, said firefighters responded around 11:40 p.m. to the blaze, which spread through...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A reunited Buffalo Springfield will play its only festival date this year at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, joining Eminem, Arcade Fire, Widespread Panic, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys and Robert Plant in celebrating 10 years down on the farm. Bonnaroo will be held June...