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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Bartels came under suspicion after an Ohio Department of Natural Resources law enforcement officer saw a truck registered to Bartels near Wayne National Forest on Oct. 29, 2022, and within an hour ...

In Ohio's Wayne National Forest, court records said more than 40 suspected arson fires were lit in 2022, and Bartels admitted to causing 26 of them. While working for the Greenfield Fire ...