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A 15-year-old girl has been arrested on murder and arson charges in the January death of a 27-year-old man whose body was found after firefighters put out a blaze in the Bronx that had been intentionally set, investigators say. The girl’s name was not immediately released Tuesday because of her age. According to the NYPD, she faces assault, reckless...

A teenage girl has been blamed for sparking a Bronx fire last week that claimed the life of a 27-year-old man and left another covered in serious burns. The NYPD announced Sunday the arrest of a 15-year-old for the deadly Jan. 29 Soundview arson. The suspect, not identified due to her age, faces charges of murder, assault, arson, reckless endangerment…

The man was seen sliding from the building’s roof in an effort to escape the flames. Police continue to search for a woman who may have had a role in the deadly fire. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

More details have come out about the man who was arrested after allegedly being seen on video in a ski mask throwing a Molotov cocktail at the front door of a New Jersey synagogue, as police said he had more targets in mind.

Nicholas Malindretos was arrested Wednesday after being caught on camera throwing a molotov cocktail at a temple in Bloomfield, Pat Battle reports.

After three days on edge, a New Jersey community is breathing a sigh of relief following the arrest of the suspect caught on camera throwing a Molotov cocktail at a Bloomfield synagogue. Here’s who the 26-year-old is and how investigators tracked him down. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

The suspect’s car was identified on surveillance video and tracked back to Clifton, where he lives, according to law enforcement officials. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

The FBI said they’ve arrested a Clifton man accused of using a Molotov cocktail in an effort to burn down a Bloomfield synagogue over the weekend.

The man allegedly seen on video in a ski mask lighting a Molotov cocktail and throwing it at the front door of a New Jersey synagogue has been arrested, the FBI and spokesperson for the temple said.

Marc Santia reporting on the woman seen carrying lighter fluid that may have been used to set the fire.

Police are searching for a man who threw a Molotov cocktail at Temple Nair Tamid. Jessica Cunnington reports.

A multi-faceted investigation is underway into two possible bias attacks on seemingly opposing targets — a church and a synagogue — in separate New Jersey communities, authorities said Monday. There was no immediate indication that the two cases are connected, so whether the timing was coincidental — both happened within a 36-hour period — remains under investigation. It wasn’t until…

Tracie Strahan reports on the aftermath of an attempted firebombing at a New Jersey synagogue over the weekend.

Authorities are looking for one suspect in the early Sunday attack on Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield. Ida Siegal reports.

Police are stepping up synagogue patrols in certain areas of New Jersey after someone in a ski mask threw a lit Molotov cocktail at one in Essex County overnight in an apparent attempt to burn it down, authorities say. No one was hurt in the 3:20 a.m. Sunday incident at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield. According to police, security footage…

A 40-year-old woman found dead after a Brooklyn fire last month appears to have been burned alive, with investigators ruling her death a homicide based on findings from the medical examiner’s office. The NYPD said Wednesday that the city medical examiner determined Sugerys Ramirez died of thermal injuries from an intentional fire at her home on Van Siclen Avenue...

News 4’s Gilma Avalos reports.

The man allegedly started the fire after the restaurant messed up his order of chicken biryani.

New video from the FDNY shows the moments a man allegedly torched a Queens restaurant after his order — chicken biryani, specifically — came out wrong, authorities say.

A 46-year-old Guatemalan man has been indicted for allegedly setting fire to a spa in Chinatown, dousing the lobby with a flammable liquid and lighting it ablaze when an unidentified employee went to a back room and trapping that person inside, federal prosecutors announced Friday. Mario Lucas is charged with arson resulting in injury to another person, which carries a…