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KINGS PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Fire officials on Long Island are investigating a blaze that destroyed part of an old psychiatric center.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A year after four people were found slain inside a burning Rochester apartment, no one has been charged with the crime.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a 14-year-old boy accused of setting a massive fire at a western New York tire recycling plant that killed his friend never told anyone his friend was trapped inside.

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Three people are heading to prison for an upstate New York apartment fire that led to the death of an 82-year-old woman.

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a local Republican Party office in North Carolina was set on fire in what a state GOP official called "political terrorism."

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to arson and manslaughter for an upstate New York apartment fire that led to the death of an 82-year-old woman.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A man who torched a building in Buffalo after his father lost his business to a new owner is heading to prison.

A teenage girl faces 15 charges in connection with a series of arson fires.

The man accused of shooting and killing a horse in Kirkland in December is facing a new charge.

Police investigating a "complicated" Endicott arson case are hoping DNA samples from the scene will lead to an arrest. The early-morning blaze on September 4 in a former synagogue at 117 Jefferson Avenue was discovered by a police officer who smelled smoke while on patrol...