Community Risk

Philly College Plagued By Arsonist

Oct. 17, 2003

The campus police chief's car was set on fire just two weeks after someone torched the car of a school administrator.

The campus police chief's car was set on fire just two weeks after someone torched the car of a school administrator.

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