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A student who reportedly confessed to murdering his step-grandmother in a game of truth or dare has been sentenced to life in prison.

Imhotep Norman from South Carolina has received a 28-year sentence on Tuesday after leaving his infant daughter Xena to die in a burning car while holding a backpack of illegal drugs.

A man allegedly killed his mother, decapitated her, and then set her on fire because the "Holy Spirit" instructed him to do so.

Eleven COVID-19 patients died after a fire broke out over the weekend in a hospital ward in Maharashtra, India.

A man reportedly poured kerosene on his wife's body and set her ablaze after an argument over his new marriage in Thane, Maharashtra, India on Saturday, Oct. 30.

A man dressed as the Joker for Halloween was arrested after going on a stabbing spree on a Tokyo train before starting a fire, leaving at least 17 commuters injured on Sunday. 

A woman who reportedly barged into her neighbor’s apartment and shot the victim multiple times over a parenting dispute has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison.

A homeless man reportedly died after he was set ablaze while he was in a deep slumber in his sleeping bag in San Francisco on Oct. 8 at around 5 a.m.

Kenneth Upshaw has been arrested on Monday after an argument with his girlfriend spurred him to set her on fire, one of two cases that day of men letting their girlfriends burn.

A man who tried to burn the decapitated head of a homeless man was shot and killed after he charged the police with a machete.

A woman was reportedly doused with gasoline and set ablaze by a home intruder for resisting rape.

Ryan Faircloth has been arrested after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail into the Texan Democratic Party office.

A Texas man reportedly slit the throats of his three victims before setting them on fire as part of "biblical sacrifice."

Three heavily dismembered corpses, including one of a child, were retrieved from a dumpster fire on Wednesday.

A Texas woman reportedly fired a rifle through the wall of her home and killed a "peeping tom" who had been peeking through her window.

A firebug and arsonist has been arrested on Thursday after admitting to setting a residential building on fire with a torch lighter.

A man has been found hanging from a fire escape after allegedly stabbing his wife to near-death at the Bronx.

Remi Miguel Gomez Hernandez, 9, was found dead after a fire broke out on their Queens apartment when the battery of an electric scooter exploded.

Investigations are underway to determine whether a man found stabbed dead in a Queens apartment building, whose roof exploded on Tuesday, died from self-inflicted injuries.

An unidentified body was found burnt in a Glasgow park on Wednesday after a fire was reported to have happened in the area.

Authorities in Canada allegedly mistook the badly charred corpse of a woman for a mannequin and threw her remains into a dumpster in Sherbrooke on July 23, police bared on Thursday.

A woman's body was reportedly found chopped into pieces and dismembered in garbage bags next to a river after she was murdered by her daughter.

A man accused of setting a Bronx apartment on fire to conceal the fatal stabbing of his elderly roommate was arrested.

A Japanese man who reportedly attempted to rob a Starbucks store in Japan while armed with a fire extinguisher has been arrested.

A father has been nabbed by police after he allegedly deliberately set his family home alight in New Jersey, ultimately killing his infant daughter and her grandparents, Mercer County officials confirmed on Monday. 

An former US Marine allegedly doused his wife with gasoline and set her on fire in front of their three children in Australia. 

An intoxicated man reportedly plowed his truck into a bar in Georgia and opened fire after being kicked out from the club over the weekend.

A gunman reportedly opened fire at a couple at an aquarium restaurant, killing one of them and wounding the other before shooting himself dead.

A 61-year-old man has been sentenced for voluntary manslaughter and arson endangering persons, after horrifically killing two men, concealing their bodies in the basement owned by one of the victims, and setting fire to the home in an act of arson.

A father-son duo that has been accused of sparking a deadly fire at a nursing home that killed two people has been indicted for arson and manslaughter.