Mount Vernon officials said the fire broke out shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday at an apartment building on Cottage Avenue.

The 26-year-old suffered severe burns to her face and body and remains in critical condition at a hospital burn unit.

Lawrence Reed, 50, is alleged to have poured liquid over a 26-year-old woman on a CTA Blue Line train and later set her on fire Monday evening.

Multiple fire departments were called to the scene of a three-alarm fire in a chicken barn on Sunday in Juniata County. The fire started around noon in the 3000 block of Route 75 South in Lack Township, dispatch said. Two chicken houses were destroyed in the fire: one collapsed and the other burnt down, dispatch said.

Officials say a fire that spread through pavilions being used for U.N. climate talks in Brazil has prompted evacuations on the next-to-last day of the conference, but nobody was hurt.

A five-alarm fire tore through a vacant church in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday morning, officials say.Chopper 3 was over the scene at a church building on North Hanover and Chestnut streets before 7 a.

POTTSTOWN — An early-morning fire gutted a historic vacant church at the corner of Chestnut and North Hanover streets on Friday. Completed in 1861 and formerly known as Transfiguration Lutheran Church, it was later occupied by Invictus Ministries Inc.