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Tom Wark

Sport in schools program aims to curb youth crime rates

A diversionary program involving sport at school will aim to help bring down youth crime rates. (Michael Dodge/AAP PHOTOS)

Two teens have been charged with arson as a state government grappling with rising crime looks to the nation's pastimes to steer children away from law-breaking

The 17-year-olds have been charged after a gelato shop was set on fire in Tarneit, in Melbourne's outer west.

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