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By Ashley Powers, Bob Pool and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
Fri, 12/28/2012 - 9:36am

A man arrested on suspicion of setting a homeless woman on fire while she slept on a Van Nuys bus bench is believed to be mentally ill, police said.

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