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Police arrested a former Burlingame High School student this week in connection with anti-Semitic and racist graffiti sprayed outside the school last month. Twenty-year-old Logan Stone was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon after police received a warrant to search his home, the Burlingame Police Department said in a press release. In an email…
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