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A Toms River man has pleaded guilty to setting a fire last year, as well as an unrelated act of criminal mischief in Lacey ...

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Second Person Charged With Arson in New Jersey Pine Barrens Fire A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s second ...