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A Wyoming police officer has pleaded not guilty to an animal cruelty charge that alleges a police dog died after he left it in a hot patrol car for several hours.More >>
A Wyoming police officer has pleaded not guilty to an animal cruelty charge that alleges a police dog died after he left it in a hot patrol car for several hours.More >>
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The streets of Ferguson have been peaceful for another night, as protests and tensions have been subsiding in the St. Louis suburb where unrest had erupted for several nights after a white police officer fatally...More >>
Conditions calmed this week in Ferguson after nights of sometimes violent unrest stemming from the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer. But a delicate and crucial question lingers: What happens...More >>
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A charity stunt that has grown into a social media phenomenon went terribly wrong for four Kentucky firefighters when a fire truck's ladder got too close to a power line after they dumped water on college...More >>
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Friday, August 22 2014 5:35 PM EDT2014-08-22 21:35:39 GMT
The U.S. Justice Department said Friday an Oregon woman pleaded guilty in May to starting a wildfire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation last year because her firefighter friends were bored and needed work.More >>
The U.S. Justice Department said Friday an Oregon woman pleaded guilty in May to starting a wildfire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation last year because her firefighter friends were bored and needed work.More >>
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BEND, Ore. (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department said Friday an Oregon woman pleaded guilty in May to starting a wildfire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation last year because her firefighter friends were bored and needed work.
The U.S. attorney's office in Portland says 23-year-old Sadie Renee Johnson of Warm Springs tossed a small firework from a car in July 2013 into the roadside brush. The fire spread to about 80 square miles - 51,000 acres - and cost nearly $8 million to fight.
Investigators said she posted a Facebook question two days later: "like my fire?"
KTVZ-TV reported (http://bit.ly/VLKjxY) the Justice Department said it released details of the case Friday, while the wildfire season is underway, to underscore the danger of such reckless actions.
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