A former high-school basketball coach in Ohio has been sentenced to four years in prison for setting fire to his home, which prosecutors said he had done to portray himself as the victim of a hate crime.

An Ohio jury has convicted a former high school basketball coach of setting fire to his home in the days after he was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl.

A state fire marshal’s investigator says evidence doesn’t match the explanation given by a former Ohio coach about a fire that destroyed his home in western Ohio.

The trial is set to begin for a former western Ohio high school basketball coach accused of setting his own house on fire just days after he was charged with sexual battery involving a 15-year-old girl. 

A former high-school basketball coach whose house was set on fire just days after he was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl has been accused of setting the blaze himself.

Police say a woman told a gas-station attendant that she had shot her estranged husband and then shot herself rather than obey officers’ commands to get out of her vehicle.

The owners of a historic mill complain they’ve been haunted by ghost hunters ever since a book claimed spirits were seen on the property.

The U.S. recession has slowed construction at Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit agency that builds affordable housing for people with low-incomes.  In some cities, the agency is seeing fewer volunteers and a slow down in fundraising - all at a time when the cost of construction materials continues to rise.

Four co-workers filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the winners of a $207 million Mega Millions jackpot, saying the others didn’t keep a promise to share the winnings.