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...sketchy portrait of Karr emerging from documents and accounts of his former acquaintances and family suggests that this peripatetic grade-school instructor is, at the very least, a complicated man who clearly takes a keen interest in crimes against children. That in itself says nothing about his guilt or innocence. Karr' s ex-wife Lara told a California television station that he was as obsessed with the murder of Polly Klaas - a 12-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Petaluma, Calif., in 1993 - as he was with the JonBenet murder. But she also insists he could...
...verbose resume aspiring grade-school teacher John Mark Karr posted on the recruiting website Job 4 Teacher.com omits any mention of his obsession with molested and murdered girls. But if that document even approximates the truth, the current prime suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey had hopped between enough jobs and countries over the past decade - glorified nanny in the Netherlands, homeroom instructor in Honduras, to name but two - to raise a bouquet of red flags in any principal's mind...
...since 1980, they revealed that Arkansas had one of the highest rates in the nation: 20.9% of the state's youngsters were overweight while another 17% fell into the borderline "at risk" category. Nationally the figures were 17% and 13%, respectively. Originally envisioned as a new kind of grade on the child's report card, Arkansas's program was revised to provide the information in a more discreet and sensitive way - through confidential letters to parents that included recommendations on what to do if the child was overweight or at risk. Arkansas' Act 1220 also called for healthier foods...
...Karr has now let the world into some of his secrets. On Wednesday evening, the wan, sandy-haired one-time grade school teacher arrived at Bangkok's Suan Phlu immigration pen, to spend the night in a solitary cell. The day before, a judge in Boulder, Colorado, had issued an arrest warrant for Karr in the nearly decade-old murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the six-year-old child beauty pageant contestant. Soon after, a small group of plainclothes Thai and U.S. officers arrived at his shabby apartment, where Karr had stayed since arriving from Malaysia in June, on the latest...
...Before Katrina, 102 of the city's schools were considered academic failures, the city had one of the nation's highest drop-out rates, most eighth-grade students had below-average test scores, and the city had had 10 superintendents in as many years, Cowen told a U.S. Senate subcommittee last month...