Free Republic

A nephew of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. set fire to his own apartment in an apparent suicide attempt. Derek King, 46, sought mental health counseling after Tuesday's blaze, said Bob Bowser, deputy chief of the Lawrence Police Department. Bowser said Derek King endangered the lives of himself and others when he allegedly set the fire in his apartment, and then refused to leave when rescuers arrived. "It could have been a tragedy," Arson investigators determined that the fire was intentionally set, and Bowser said King could face charges. Rev. Thomas L. Brown, pastor at Ebenezer Missionary,...