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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Ashley Mabry, who looks forward to family game night, sometimes watches TV and loves her internship at the ARC Pikes Peak Region, knew she wanted to go to college since the fourth grade, when she entered a "talent development" program at Hilltop Baptist School in Colorado Springs. "She learned to believe in herself," said her mom, Anne Mabry. But after transitioning out of the program at age 21, Ashley, who has autism and Asperger's syndrome, foundered for a decade. "Reality hit us in the face," Anne said. The f...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Laurie Works visits the memorial erected in honor of her two sisters just a couple of times a year. "I don't come here a ton, but more than the cemetery," she said last month. "It's a special place — it's the last place I saw them. I feel them here, when I come." Her family's van was parked in the east lot of New Life Church on Colorado Springs' north side on Dec. 9, 2007, when a 24-year-old gunman opened fire. Laurie's younger sister, Rachel, and her twin, Stephanie, died. Their dad was shot but fully recovered....
