Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Student Charged in University Arsons
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A Florida State University freshman was charged with setting 18 small fires on campus, sometimes six or seven a day. Students and faculty members were relieved by the arrest, which ended a week of increasing tension at the 28,000-student school in Tallahassee. Jeffrey T. Knowles, 19, of Fort Pierce, Fla., was suspended from school and held without bail after telling investigators he set 19 fires, police said. He was not charged in one case still under investigation.
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