A defense attorney told a Central Texas jury that she’ll present expert testimony that will prove her client innocent of the 1986 fire deaths of his two stepsons. Michelle Tuegel represents Edward Graf, a 62-year-old man being retried in Waco …
As wildfires burn homes and thousands of square miles across the West, fire experts say simple actions like clearing brush around a home or removing pine needles from decks could make the difference in whether a house survives or burns …
Ed Graf was given life in prison 25 years ago for killing his two stepsons by locking them in a backyard shed and setting it on fire. Two investigators used photos of the shed’s remains to persuade jurors that Graf …
After the 1910 wildfires charred 3 million acres across Idaho, eastern Washington and Montana, the U.S. Forest Service hired its first full-time wildfire researcher. For nearly three decades Harry Gisborn sought to understand how weather and topography affected the spread …