Tiny dancer denied by San Francisco Ballet School
San Francisco AP report says Krissy Keefer filed a discrimination complaint with the city Human Rights Commission after her 8 year old daughter Fredrika was told she could not audition for the San Francisco Ballet School professional program due to her body type. The school, which receives city funding, faces possible mediation, fines, or funding revocation if found in violation.
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City Ballet School
Krissy Keefer
Fredrika
San Francisco Ballet School
Keefer
Human Rights Commission
Commission
Radiation exposure hits workers at Rocky Flats site
Ten workers cleaning a former nuclear weapons factory at Golden Colorado tested positive for radiation as part of an 11 year seven billion dollar effort to convert Rocky Flats into a wildlife refuge. Fifteen new plutonium areas were found but not tied to the exposure which was likely under one thousand millirems.
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Golden
Colo
Rocky Flats
Ma Spears
Kaiser-Hill
Man convicted of murder over $5 theft in Hillsboro
Robin Hickman, 20, convicted of murder for stealing $5 from Wanda Guckian, 48, then killing her and burning her Hillsboro home. Prosecutors say on August 6, 1999, Hickman slit her throat, shot her, and set the house ablaze as an accomplice burgled the residence. authorities only linked the crime months later during an investigation into stolen CDs. Casey Buske, 17, faces a murder trial.
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Hillsboro, Ill
Robin Hickman
Wanda Guckian
Guckian
Hickman
Casey Buske
Buske
Up With People's finances hit sour note
The curtain closes on Up With People as it shuts down amid a 7.3 million dollar debt. The nonprofit lost 3.2 million in the last fiscal year and 860 thousand the year before, prompting layoffs of 262 employees across 10 offices and plans to sell the Denver-area main building. Tim Schuetz and Scott Nelson reflect on the era and legacy of the organization founded in 1965 by Blanton and Betty Belk.
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Colo
Scott Nelson
Denver
Australia
New Zealand
Nelson
Up With People Was
Blanton
Betty Belk
Tucson, Ariz
Tim Schuetz
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Dance Mission Studio
Colorado
U.S. Energy Department
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FDIC
Service One
ServiceOne
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EnergyOne
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Hope Singing Group
Upwithpeople
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