A former fire department administrator and police officer has been sentenced for starting more than 20 fires in the Wayne ...

James Bartels was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sparking 26 fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors announced on ...

A former Gallia County, Ohio, fire department worker and police officer was sentenced to prison Monday for starting dozens of ...

A man who served as a former fire official, police officer and Gallia County 911 administrator has been sentenced to 18 ...

James Bartels, a former 911 dispatcher in southeast Ohio, admitted to starting dozens of fires to "give the boys something to do." ...

ATHENS, Ohio— A new Bureau of Land Management plan to open 40,000 acres of the Wayne National Forest to fracking for oil and gas looks almost identical to one a federal judge rejected in 2020. The ...

He admitted to starting the fires with a lighter to “give the boys something to do” and to distract himself from his ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio― A federal judge today stalled oil and gas leasing in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest, ruling that the Trump administration failed to consider threats to public health, endangered species ...

In Ohio, a troubling case of arson perpetrated by a former fire department dispatcher and police officer has come to a legal resolution. James A. Bartels, previously ...

WOODSFIELD — Twenty parcels covering 1,147.1 acres of Wayne National Forest in Monroe County, Ohio, are expected to garner more than $5 million in new mineral leases for the federal Bureau of ...

A former fire official has been sentenced to prison for intentionally setting several fires in a national forest in Perry County.  James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio ...

A former fire department administrator and police officer has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for setting 26 ...