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...beneath the shelling of the Ethiopian army. It still takes 10 hours in a four-wheel to drive the 137 miles from the capital over rugged mountain tracks. But Nakfa is a place of veneration akin to Valley Forge. "It reminds us forever of our resistance," says Zacharias, a teacher at the new technical school. The national emblem is the camel that carried supplies to Nakfa; the country's new currency, introduced in November to replace the Ethiopian birr, is called the nakfa. Despite Nakfa's 9,000-ft.-high chill and barren soil, the government is determined to turn...
...Westside Middle School is closed again Friday, as what was supposed to be a teacher-training day is devoted to the funerals of two of the 12-year-old victims of the attack. On Thursday, the pupils wrote a letter to Monty Woodard, Mitchell?s stepbrother, saying they still liked him and wanted him to return to school. But his father Terry refused. ?I?ve been around this town,? he said. ?These people don?t forgive...
JONESBORO: Some semblance of routine returns to this small Arkansas town Thursday, as class resumes behind the bullet-ridden brick walls of Westside Middle School. The two boys accused of gunning down their classmates and teacher begin their first full day in detention without bail, after Judge Ralph Wilson ruled there was enough evidence to keep them behind bars until their hearing...
JONESBORO, Ark.: Class was canceled Wednesday at Westside Middle School as the two boys accused of killing four fellow pupils and a teacher and wounding 10 others Tuesday await a judge's ruling on whether they are competent to stand trial in juvenile court. If they are eventually found guilty, the boys -- identified by the local newspaper as Mitchell Johnson, 13, and his cousin Andrew Golden, 11 -- will have to be released by the age of 18 under Arkansas law. The judge in the case has ordered the boys held without bail. The U.S. Attorney General's office is considering...
...said one of the boys had recently broken up with his girlfriend. A third boy, thought to have pulled the alarm, is still being sought. The dead students, all girls, have been identified as Natalie Brooks, Paige Ann Herring and Stephanie Johnson, all 12, and Brittany R. Varner, 11. Teacher Shannon Wright, 32, died after surgery. Nine of the wounded were also girls...