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JONESBORO: Inside the juvenile section of Craighead County jail on Thursday, 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson studied his Bible and 11-year-old Andrew Golden cried for his mother. Outside, the Jonesboro school-shooting suspects? families began the impossible task of interpreting their children?s actions for the media. ?I don?t have an explanation for any of this,? said Scott Johnson, the divorced father of Mitchell who now lives in Minnesota, on NBC Nightly News. But he added: ?My son is not a monster...
...motive? According to the Jonesboro Sun, friends say the 13-year-old warned them he "had a lot of killing to do" after being jilted by a girlfriend. But as Craighead County Sheriff Dale Haas said, "There's no explanation in my opinion why an 11-year-old or 13-year-old would do something like this. It breaks my heart." Haas says the boys were heavily armed and lying in wait in nearby woods when the alarm was pulled inside the school. When apprehended, they were running in the direction of a white van loaded with guns and ammunition...
Meanwhile, his rivals nervously shift their feet, twitch their fingers, rub gold crucifixes, amulets and talismans. Grace Craighead of Philadelphia quivers with stage fright. "I'm soooo nervous," she says. "This is my first tournament." Adrenaline is boiling, shoulders are hunched, fingers poised to punch the two keys that will spin the slot-machine wheels to winning numbers and bars, or losing spaces...
...hard on the poor. In New York City, 16 people, many of them homeless, died from hypothermia over the long Christmas weekend. Detroit's Benjamin Ranson, 49, lived in a car and died in it, curled up between bucket seats. In Tipple Hill, W. Va., Takeisha and Stacey Craighead, ages seven and five, were killed when a coal-burning stove set fire to their flimsy house. Retiree George Toomer, 77, who lived alone in Akron (-14°), locked the house keys in his car and froze to death in his garage...
Montana Wildlife Biologists John and Frank Craighead, perhaps the foremost authorities on the grizzly, insist that the answer is for the Park Service to drop its "forever wild" doctrine, at least as far as bears are concerned. In the early 1970s, at the height of their quarrel with the federal authorities, the 66-year-old twin brothers angrily quit their grizzly studies in Yellowstone. Says John: "It's fine to say that you want a pristine, pre-Columbian setting, but it won't work in Yellowstone [which had 2.4 million visitors last year]. Man is a definite part...