Beacon was created in 1913 from Matteawan and Fishkill Landing. 150 Years Ago (December 1875) W.H. Theobald, an employee at ...

A man stood charged with arson and criminal damage to property Sunday after police said he set himself on fire​ on a CTA Blue ...

Jesus Martinez of northwest suburban Northlake was charged with felony arson and criminal damage of government property, Chicago police said Sunday.

A man accused of lighting a woman on fire on the CTA Blue Line last month has been indicted on additional federal charges ...

A man set a fire on a CTA Blue Line train on the city's Northwest Side on Friday morning, Chicago police said.

A 52-year-old man has been arrested and charged after allegedly setting a fire inside a CTA Blue line train. According to Chicago police, the man was arrested Friday in the 1500 block of North Damen ...

The victim was sleeping on a train at Penn Station in Manhattan around 3 a.m. Monday when an 18-year-old man set him on fire, the police said.

A man is recovering in the hospital on Friday morning after officials say he set himself on fire at a CTA stop on the city’s West Side. According to officials from the Chicago Fire ...

An electric school bus used by the Los Angeles Unified School District caught fire on the streets of Sunland on Wednesday ...

An 82-year-old woman from Jamesburg narrowly escaped serious injury after she stopped her car on the tracks at a crossing and was struck by a freight train in South Brunswick.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized "liberal soft-on-crime" policies for threatening people's safety after a woman was set on fire on the Chicago subway last week. On November 17, ...

A woman lounging on a couch was set on fire after a man decided she didn’t act fast enough in getting him a beer, according to police in western North Carolina. The woman’s blouse was burned off, but ...