A West Texas man who sometimes showed up at fires before emergency personnel arrived has been sentenced to six years in prison for arson. A federal judge in Midland on Wednesday sentenced 64-year-old Jimmie Doyle Farris. Farris in April pleaded …
A driver was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 to 10 1/2 years in prison for a drunken wrong way crash that killed two people on a Buffalo expressway last year. “I made the worst decision of my life that night,” …
An ex-school nurse in Central Texas upset about a poor evaluation has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting a campus building on fire. Mary Lucille Gutierrez on Monday pleaded guilty to criminal mischief of more than $200,000 …
A man imprisoned for setting fire to his Marquette, Wis., tavern has filed a new appeal. Joseph Awe is serving a three-year term for setting fire to JJ’s Pub in Harrisville in 2006. In his appeal motion, Awe says investigators …
A Fort Worth jury has decided a drunken driver travelling the wrong way on an interstate highway last year when he slammed into a tanker truck, killing the truck driver, should spend 20 years in prison. Louis Nieves received the …
A Berlin court has convicted a man of arson for setting alight 80 cars in the German capital last year and sentenced him to seven years in prison. A series of car torchings last summer drew national attention in the …
A Lincoln, Neb., man who claimed he’d been hired to work on a vacant house is going to prison for causing $10,000 damage by tearing everything out of the house. The Lincoln Journal Star says 55-year-old Allen Kilmer was sentenced …
A former used car dealer has been sentenced to five years in prison for arranging an arson fire at a New York motor vehicles office. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Buffalo says 59-year-old Robert Vernon had a dispute with a …
A 53-year-old Reedsburg man who pleaded guilty to his 10th offense of drunken driving has been sentenced to four years in prison. Michael J. Clevenger was sentenced Friday, one day after pleading guilty in Columbia County court. A criminal complaint …