Word: colorado
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...ended the studio’s 14-year relationship with the star. He might not be a celebrity per se, but John Mark Karr certainly made headlines after his shocking confession to accidentally killing Jon Benet Ramsey ten years ago. Apprehended in Bangkok in August, flown first class to Colorado, and outfitted in new duds, Karr was eventually acquitted of murder charges after DNA tests were negative. Karr is now being held for charges of owning child pornography. On a more somber note, environmentalist Steve Irwin, the “Crocodile Hunter,” died tragically after being stung...
...furlough and had to bounce on his butt up a flight of stairs to check on his crying son, Katie commiserated. When his young wife seemed overcome by the burden of a handicapped husband, Katie fretted for their marriage. After he went snowboarding on an amputee outing to Colorado, Katie brimmed with compliments...
...backwater, 600 miles by river from the sea, cobblestone-quaint but short on manpower and desperately poor ... Stroessner got off to a dictator's ironfisted start, organizing a tough secret police, suppressing all opposition, packing the prisons. Close to 300,000 Paraguayans now live in exile. At Stroessner's Colorado party headquarters in the Asunci?n capital, functionaries keep IBM listings on everyone who applies for party membership; there are 400,000 names on file." Read more at timearchive.com...
...regression at home, the Perkinses in late 2003 enrolled Luke in a Boston boarding school renowned for its success with autistic children. And because federal law requires school districts to provide an extended school day and even residential services if a special-education student needs them, his parents informed Colorado's Thompson school district it had to pick up the bill for Boston Higashi's $135,000 annual tuition...
...that we were bad parents and that we just wanted to have an easy life," Jeff says, blinking back tears. He also insists that "we're not insensitive to the money issues." But he argues that the family's tax dollars contribute to the $2 million tuition-assistance fund Colorado created this year to help local districts with children whose special-ed services cost $50,000 or more a year. In other words, Luke is entitled to his share...