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...ordeal began with every parent's nightmare: small children, unguarded for a few moments, tumble into tragedy. Jessica's teenage parents Chip, 18, and Reba, 17, live in a blue-collar section of Midland (pop. 100,000), a drilling center hard hit by the oil slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged...
...their behavior, Mones estimates that less than 10% of parricide defendants have any previous record. "In the parricide cases, the kids are rarely high," he says. And the vast majority of parricides are premeditated. The typical modus operandi: several shots to the back of the head of a sleeping parent...
...candidates said the most divisive issue is that of parent evaluation of teachers, but other issues are at the top of the Independents' list. CCA President Jack Martinelli said his organization wants to make parent comments a formal part of the teacher evaluation process--although such a move is banned by the teachers' current contract...
...whole CCA platform is a case of sensationalism," Fantini said. "I think the CCA candidates ought to debate each other," he added. "It's amazing, the differences between them [on parent evaluation...
...even by the government as a practical impossibility because of South Africa's dependence on a black work force. But the legacy of the plan, in the form of four artificial black "states" set up by Pretoria between 1976 and 1981 and six homelands still considered part of the parent country, is taking a disconcerting and costly toll on white South Africa...