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$30 Million Awarded in Murder
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A Frederick County judge has awarded more than $30 million in damages to the family of a 9-year-old boy murdered by a sex offender who is serving two life sentences for the crime.
The civil judgment entered Tuesday against Elmer Spencer Jr. is largely symbolic, because Spencer is believed to have little money. But attorneys for victim Christopher Ausherman's parents said the award could help their case against the state when it goes to trial in June.
The award "sent a message as to the degree of harm and damage that was caused by this horrible tragedy," Paul V. Jorgensen said. He and Jack E. Blomquist represent the boy's parents, Mary Voit and Christopher Ausherman Sr., and the boy's estate.
The District
School Board Outlines Budget
The D.C. Board of Education agreed last night to send Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) a $1.05 billion operating budget for fiscal 2007 that still lacks details showing how the funds would be spent. The board said it would provide those details in a few weeks.
District revenue would account for $791 million.
The board, which normally sends the budget to Williams in December, was given more time so it could include proposals from a master plan that Superintendent Clifford B. Janey released Monday.
Board members last night said they needed to delay submission of the full budget even longer so they could determine the financial impact of that plan and of collective bargaining agreements that the school system is negotiating with teachers and principals.
VIRGINIA
Students Get Emergency Tips
Officials from the American Red Cross and the Emergency Preparedness Council of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments will share emergency preparedness tips with schoolchildren today and distribute "Be Ready, Make a Plan" guides for the students to bring home.
The 1 p.m. event is scheduled at Hybla Valley Elementary School, 3415 Lockheed Blvd. in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"That's something I thought was really unattainable, a private school. . . . I was excited, just crazy excited."
-- Karen Wright, on her admission into Trinity (Washington) University's program east of the Anacostia River. -- A1
Compiled from reports by staff writers Allan Lengel, Lena H. Sun, V. Dion Haynes and Lisa Rein and the Associated Press.
