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...interest. Or so many questions: Did veteran Forest Service worker Terry Barton set the Hayman wildfire by accident when her campfire surged out of control? Or did she do it on purpose, counting that her 18 years of experience specializing in fire prevention would allow her to control the blaze...
...grand jury prefers the latter explanation. Barton was indicted Wednesday on arson charges; Colorado authorities say she deliberately started a wildfire southwest of Denver on June 8th. The blaze, the largest in Colorado history, has ravaged 135,000 acres of parched land, destroying 25 houses and driving nearly 8,000 people from their homes...
...watching TV and the lights flickered, they came back and it was horrifying. I saw a mushroom cloud of fire. I went outside and saw a whole bunch of people running [toward the blaze],” said Allston resident Ajda Snyder...
...with a single. A Nick Carter error on a Matt Sullivan grounder advanced Trout to third. Senior Mike Schiappa was intentionally walked to load the bases for fellow senior Matt Jackson. Jackson hit a sacrifice fly to right field, giving the Rams their first run. Sophomore John Blaze singled, driving in Schiappa and Sullivan to give Rhode Island the 3-0 advantage...
...CONVICTED. Robert Long, 38, itinerant Australian fruit picker, on charges of arson and murder for starting the June 2000 fire that killed 15 at a Queensland backpackers' hostel; in Brisbane. Long is likely to face life in prison for setting the blaze in the town of Childers that claimed the lives of four Australians, six Britons, two Dutch, one Irish, one Japanese and a South Korean. DIED. Raffaele Ciriello, 42, veteran Italian war photographer, after being shot six times in the abdomen and chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there...