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Show Wednesday, July 7, IWJ.THI REGION Man pleads innocent to 111 RAI D, from. l.'tah Columbine shooting sparks interest in home-schooling H. there was a 30 percent to 40 is fairly simple. Parents n the local school di percent increase in interest in and provide at least four h in home schooling immediately after Dylan Klebold, 17, and teaching a day, 172 days a y Eric Harris, 18, went on their Children are given nat.o r.i achievement tests every t v rampage April 20. The two seniors killed 12 classmates and a years until the 1th grade. "The rest of it is up to teacher and injured 25 others said Michael Kasson l "!.at Columbine High School Colorado Home EducM-before committing suicide. "You decide w.. Association. A month later, Thomas think Solomon Jr., 15, was accused of you your child sh know." six at students wounding For most parents, the l. Heritage High School in sion to home school' can !i' Conyers, Ga., amplifying jitters about school safety. years and is based on "There's a tension out there, factors, including the qi;; ,; and parents are very curious ty of public school education what they can do about it," said the specific needs of a chi'ui. Brian Ray of the National wish to emphasize mor.i u Home Education Research religious guidelines, or distaiuT Institute in Oregon. "Many peo- from the nearest school, p- r:V ple see home schooling as a way ularly in rural areas. to protect children." Increasingly, however, parfor home ents are citing security as a Requirements schooling vary from state to reason for turning living ro'n state, but in Colorado the process into classrooms. By ROBIN McDOWELL store killings The Associated Press DENVER When Sherie Ferguson learned two teen-ag- e ""LAS VEGAS (AP) A for- Mwr Marine faces a possible Wath penalty if convicted of filling four people in a supermarket rampage. Prosecutors formally told a judge Tuesday they will seek he death penalty for Zane Floyd, who is charged with entering an Albertson's store .June 3 and blasting away with a shotgun. Four employees were killed and another seri- HI i ously wounded. have four dead and ghat's about as big a tragedy as we've seen," District Attorney Stewart Bell said after Floyd '. appeared for an arraignment jji state court. Floyd, 23, pleaded innocent io four counts of murder and ' related charges in a brief yppearance before District Judge Jeff Sobel, who set a ,)arcn b trial date. . Bell told the judge that he would seek the death penalty r r i J 11 ill wno ., lor rioya, a was a bar bouncer jK living with his parents at the time of the shootings. Bell asked for an expedited v,ivial, but Sobel said his court nilendar was packed and the trial could go no earlier than next spring. Sobel told attor'r DAIIV "We , ' Press KB ANDKIFSKI The Associated Protection: Lindee Deharsh reads to her daughter, Katrina, 5, at their home in Greeley, Colo. Katrina will be home-schoole- , fire at opened gunmen Columbine High School, she jumped in her car and sped through traffic to find her daughter, a freshman at a neighboring high school. The next day, with the death toll in the Littleton school massacre at 15, Ms. Ferguson decided to teach Brandi, 15, at home. 1 nunu-r-ou- "She is my only daughter," said Ms. Ferguson, a single parent. "Sending her back to Bear Creek, where security is virtually nonexistent, to me that's gambling. "Look at all the copy cats. I don't think it's going to stop. How can it?" It is too early to know how the numbers will translate, but educators in Colorado said i Federal appeals court restores damages in age bias lawsuit against Motel 6 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A federal appeals court restored $358,000 in damages Tuesday for two southeastern Idaho couples who were abruptly fired as Motel 6 managers and replaced part-tim- e by younger, lower-paicouples. The trial judge should not have overturned jury verdicts of age discrimination because there d . neys for both sides, however, that the March 6 date should be considered firm. y The court appearance came "Sifter attorneys for Floyd ; waived his right to a prelimi nary hearing last month after the judge refused to ban live television coverage of the hear- was ample evidence to support them, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling. Both cases involved "the same pattern of furtive inspections followed by instant terminations," the court said. 3-- 0 Motel 6 attorney Michael Marino said the d chain of 750 Dallas-base- low-price- d motels Group has a year to buy timber A OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) citizen crusade to save a virgin tract of forest from chain saws will get another year to raise ing. In addition to four murder charges, Floyd faces two the required money, although its leaders said Tuesday they may already have raised enough. The state Board of Natural attempted murder charges and tour sexual assault charges. plans to appeal. they were fired in 1993. Mrs. Huttinger, 55, had the manager's title and had gotten merit pay raises each year. Her husband was 68. Massman, who had inspected the motel during their vacation, accused them of mishandling room keys and discriminating against Indians from nearby Both couples, longtime Motel 6 managers, were fired by the same area manager, Doug Massman, after they returned from vacations. One couple, Art and Donna Huttinger, had been Motel 6 managers for eight years and ran a motel in Chubbuck when 1994. A OVER 1000 1PATTERNS!) HunterPouqiaa WALLPAPER Resources unanimously voted to the Northwest give Ecosystem Alliance until next July 1 to raise the millions of dollars needed to buy out state reservations, based partly mi accusations by a disgruntled employee, the court said. The other couple, Delore Fennern, 58, and her husbjiiul. James, 60, managers of mi Idaho Falls Motel 6, had been managers for 13 years whei. Massman fired them in e;ni m m w w m m Vl KIO PROOF' OREM 248 G3 timber rights to a 25,000-acrtract of the Loomis State Forest in Eastern Washington. e SINCE PR0V0 E. UNIV. 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