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Luke Perkins has been living "two disparate lives," court documents say: one at school in Berthoud, Colo., where the autistic boy was making some progress, and the other outside school, where the 9-year-old was so unruly he could not take part in such basic activities as going to church or eating in a restaurant. He became so destructive at night that his family resorted to locking him in his bedroom, which had been stripped of furniture because he kept smearing feces all over everything...
...Perkins family's dispute--which has cost the district $191,000 in legal fees--school administrators say the parents are penalizing the district for Luke's behavior off campus. "The issues that they had were really surrounding home," says Karen Pielin, the district's special-ed director. Teachers from Berthoud went to the Perkinses' house to help get Luke on a schedule that would reinforce what he was learning at school. But Luke's father Jeff, a rheumatologist, said that even though they tried hard, the competing needs of their three other children made it impossible to keep Luke...
...judge was more inclined to put himself into the driver's shoes than mine, even though I'm the one who's handicapped for life," says Marcelle Berthoud, 61, who has spent three years in hospitals and rehab centers since a drunk driver hit her car head on. The driver - who failed to appear at his trial - saw his initial six-month suspended jail sentence lowered to three on appeal, and the 15-month driving prohibition lifted completely. "Judges figure the driver's guilty conscience is punishment enough, and that the damage to victims is already done," says Berthoud. "Just...
...million in PAC money--not to mention the $20.7 million it will spend on such indirect political activities as lobbying and training members for campaign work. "If they're saying they're bipartisan, but their dollars are saying something else, I'd listen to their dollars," says John Berthoud, an analyst with the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a public policy research group...
...boulder, which authorities said weighed several tons and measured 17 feet across and 6 feet high, struck the Gray Line tour bus just before 11 a.m. as it neared the foot of the heavily traveled 11,314-foothigh Berthoud Pass on U.S. 40. The accident site is about 60 miles northwest of Denver...