A judge sentenced Kevin Carlson to 11 years for setting fire to Bidwell Mansion. He's also ordered to pay over $37 million in ...

Carlson, 30, was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in state prison — the maximum penalty for felony arson — after admitting to ...

The man who ignited the fire that destroyed the historic Bidwell Mansion in Chico was sentenced to 11 years in state prison, officials said Wednesday.

Proposition 36 toughened penalties which could have added 15 years to Kevin Carlson’s sentence — if his crime had occurred a ...

Kevin Alexander Carlson, sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in state prison for his arson Bidwell Mansion, stated he was “feeling depressed and hopeless about life” when he decided to vandalize the ...

Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey said that Kevin Carlson got six years for the arson and an additional five years ...

Kevin Alexander Carlson, 30, of Chico, received a maximum sentence from the court totaling 11 years in state prison and a ...

Three months after Chico’s 156-year-old Bidwell Mansion was deliberately set ablaze, 30-year-old Kevin Andrew Carlson was ...

A Chico man who set fire to what some call ... Caraway on Wednesday afternoon imposed an 11-year prison sentence for Kevin Alexander Carlson. Last month, Carlson admitted to a felony arson charge ...

On a cold December day, Kevin Alexander Carlson walked the streets of downtown Chico, weighed down by discontent. Hours later, the city’s most storied landmark was an inferno, reduced to little ...

she asked, adding, “Kevin Carlson assaulted me without even touching me.” Galvin Matthews called the fire “a major crime against not only the people of Chico, but against California history.” ...