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Federal agents said Wednesday they were looking for a dark sport utility vehicle in the investigation of nine rural Alabama church fires. Two members of Old Union Baptist Church in Bibb County said they saw just such a vehicle driving slowly by the church at Brierfield when they arrived moments after the fire was set around 4:05 a.m. Friday. "They were looking at the church when I spotted them," one of the witnesses, Alvin Lawley, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. "It was like they wanted to see what they had done." Lawley said he got in his...

A sport utility vehicle is believed to have started a fire at a southeast Houston apartment complex Wednesday, fire investigators told Local 2. Investigators believe the fire started at about 1 a.m. in a Suzuki SUV parked under a carport at a complex on Broadway Street and Moline Street. The fire destroyed the SUV, and two apartment units suffered minor damage. No injuries were reported.

Two Long Island teens, heading home from a birthday party, were killed on the Southern State Parkway yesterday when an SUV traveling in the opposite direction careened into a median, launched into the air and landed on top of their car. Promising student Luis Alfaro, 19, of Brentwood, who had borrowed his aunt's Chevrolet Cavalier to go to the party in Freeport with his neighbor, Sammy Mena, 17, were killed instantly by the smash in the eastbound lane near Exit 42 in Bay Shore, authorities said. The two occupants of the SUV Ford Explorer — which then rolled over and...

One person is dead after an SUV fleeing from state troopers headed the wrong way across the Howard Frankland Bridge and crashed into oncoming traffic early this morning. Investigators say that a Honda CRV was involved in a minor fender-bender in the Kennedy-Westshore area around 1:40 a.m., but when troopers arrived on the scene, the vehicle took off, striking a trooper in the process. "The gentleman in the vehicle refused all FHP trooper commands to stop and step out of the vehicle, backed his car into two FHP patrol cars, and struck Trooper Maddox with the Florida Highway Patrol's Tampa...