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Fri, Jul 18 2008 

Why are our teens dying?

For driver who killed friend, pain never goes away

The deepest of Heather Jensen’s scars lie below the skin.
There’s the scar on her right arm from a car wreck that left her with several plates and screws in her forearm, she said.
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  • Tougher laws needed, some victims claim
    Heather Jensen, 29, spent four years in prison for killing her best friend while driving under the influence of methamphetamines. She called her sentence a slap on the wrist.

  • Apathy stunts communty forums
    Empty seats. That’s what attendees to any of the recent community forums held locally on underage drinking saw. At Joplin’s town hall meeting April 1, only eight people showed up to ask questions of the four panelists including a mother who lost her daughter in an underage drinking and driving crash.

  • Drinking is not the only danger for teens today
    CARL JUNCTION, Mo. — Shelley Ross will spend this Mother’s Day in tears.
    It’s the way she has spent the last three of these holidays, reading cards her son David “Nick” Ross gave her before his death in a high-speed car crash in 2004.

  • Authorities prosecuting multiple criminal cases stemming from teen deaths
    At least four criminal cases have been filed in the last 15 months in the wake of teen deaths and those cases are now making their way through the courts in Southwest Missouri.

  • Ambivalent messages part of the problem for teen drinking, driving w/ audio interviews
    Kerry Freeman isn’t one to throw stones.
    She’s just a mother, hurting and full of hindsight, looking for answers to the growing list of dead local teenagers, a list that includes her 18-year-old daughter, Christina.

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