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TM 6B FORT WORTH AREA FORT WORTH A Fort Worth grandmother can resume handing out religious literature to students outside Crowley High School, aslong as she block a section of sidewalk where students board school buses. That agreement, announced Monday, is expected to end a federal lawsuit by Janice Colston against Crowley school officials, who barred her in April 2005 from distributing pamphlets on thesidewalk in front of the school. Lawyers for Colston and the school district filed a joint dismissal motion last week in U.S. District Court. Judge Terry Means is expected to approve the settlement.

When contacted Monday, Colston, who won a $3,000 settlement from the Fort Worth school district in 2004 in a similar case, said she want to discuss the Crowley agreement. She instead issued a statement through the Liberty Legal Institute, which filed the lawsuit on her behalf. am pleased the case is over and that I can resume my calling to share my faith with the statement read. The settlement includes an undisclosed sum to pay Liberty Legal Institute for fees. The Plano- based institute says it fights to protect religious freedomand First Amendment rights.

Hiram Sasser, litigation director for the Crowley Superintendent Greg Gibson was cooperative and sensitive to constitutional issues, which helped forge a compromise. After state lawsuit was transferred to federal court this spring, Sasser met with Gibson and Rhonda Crass, the school attorney, in front of Crowley High School totake a look at the disputed area. spray-painted a spot on the sidewalk in front of the school where the main doors open Sasser said. Gibson asked us if that was OK if she had that much space. That was pretty much where she wanted to be in the first In return, Sasser agreed to request that Colston refrain from approaching students on a portion of the sidewalk where the buses are loaded and unloaded.

Crass said the districtmight have won the suit on the grounds that Colston was not entitled to distribute pamphlets on a sidewalk that was private property. The city of Crowley deeded the land to the school district last year. But Crass said an amicable settlement was in bestinterest. we all stood on our soapboxes, we could spend millions of dollars Crass said. the uncertainty of school finance, we rolled up our sleeves and reached a solution.

She can exercise her First Amendment rights, but not going to be endangering herself or the The Colston settlement does not mean that anyone may distribute literature in front of any district school, Crass said. She said school officials will balance school safety and First Amendment concerns. districts have the right to set But we will not abridge First Amendment rights. We expect people to recognize our rights to protect Martha Deller, (817) 390-7857 SETTLEMENT Woman can give out religious literature at school School officials and the Liberty Legal Institute reach a deal for the Fort Worth resident to return to a site outside Crowley High. By MARTHA DELLER STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER WHAT DO YOU THINK? Post a comment on this report at www.star-telegram.com An Arlington manpleaded guilty to promotion of child pornography Monday after police say he traded images online and hadthousands of pictures.

Scott will be sentenced in August for the second-degree felony, which carries a penalty of two to 20 years in prison, prosecutor Mike Purselleysaid. Reynolds also may have toregisteras a sex offenderfor the rest of his life, Purselley said. A woman who answered the phone at the family home and said she was grandmother said Monday afternoon that she believed Reynolds would be able to move on. Reynolds was a senior at Arlington High School when he was indicted in played on the football team last season. He was scheduled to graduate in May.

He transferred to the alternative school, Turning Point, in mid-May, school district spokeswoman Veronica Sophersaid. Sopher said she did not know whether he had graduated. Reynolds is one of the youngest people Arlington police have investigated for such a crime, investigators said. Arlington police have said Reynolds may have collected child pornography for years, but they said they had no reason to believe that Reynolds took any of the pictures himself or gaveany to classmates. Police began investigating Reynolds in November after the National Center for Missing Exploited Children and the FBI forwarded a tip that they had traced uploaded images of child pornography to a computer at his central Arlington home.

Mark Agee, 817-548-5421 CRIME Arlington man pleads guilty in child porn case By MARK AGEE STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER Like her older brother Davontae, Destiny Williams was disciplined in the east Arlington apartment. If she did something wrong, she was spanked with a belt, hanger and sometimes an extension cord. But for as she called him, punishment was mean, the 8- year-old testified Monday during the capital murder trial of Lisa Ann Coleman, who is accused in the 2004 starving death of Davontae Williams, her 9-year-old son. If convicted, Coleman could face the death penalty. mother, Marcella Williams, faces her own capital murder trial later.

Todaywould have been 11th birthday. Destiny, who was 6years old whenDavontaedied, told the jury in state District Judge Everett court Monday that Coleman, whomshe called lived with the family and tied up Davontae. anybody mean to Tae prosecutor Mitch Poe asked. she said. was mean to Tae After a long said, Poe finished his questioning by asking Destiny to point to the person she called Pig.

have to look if you want can you point at he asked. Destiny, with a frown, turned her head and pointed at Coleman. After she stopped continued to stare in direction for several seconds. Destiny, along with her younger sister, who was 3 years old when Davontae died, now live with adoptive parents. Under cross examination, defense attorney, Michael Destiny whethershe knew that her mother was in jail and if she still caresfor her.

In her soft-spoken voice, she said, After questioning, Destiny walked toward her adoptive mother and reached for her hand while looking back at Coleman. Jurors also heard testimony Monday from Child Protective Services caseworker Jennifer Deible. She said she interviewed Coleman shortly after death. In that interview, Coleman told Deible about the last time she disciplined Davontae. In February 2004, five months before his death, Coleman hit Davontae on the buttocks with a belt.

She said she may have gone too far because the beating left some bruises. Deible said Coleman then told her that she talked to her mother, Patricia Coleman, about the incident. said her mother told her to leave the disciplining up to Marcella and not to put her hands on him Deible said. Coleman went on to tell her that whenever someone asked where Davontae was, the response was always that he was with his relatives, actually, he was in the Nathaniel Jones, 817-548-5414 COURTS Sister testifies was mean to brother Destiny Williams was 6 yearsold when her older brother, Davontae, died from starvation. By NATHANIEL JONES STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER COLEMAN Lawmakerbriefly in the hospital ARLINGTON Longtime U.S.Rep.

Joe was briefly hospitalized this past weekend, members of his staff confirmed Barton felt ill on Saturday night. He went to the emergency room of a local hospital and underwent a series of tests, the results of which were said Karen press secretary in Washington.She declined to identify the hospital and did not elaborate on what tests were performed on Barton, in Arlington at home and planning to fly to today, said Arlington City Councilman Ron district director. Strassman Counties reinstate banson burning FORT WORTH Commissioners in Johnson, Parker and Wise counties voted Monday to reinstate bans on outdoor burning in unincorporated areas. The bans will be in effect for 90 daysunless it rains. In Parker and Wise counties, the bans also includefireworks.

Paul County fire marshal, said people can buy or sell fireworksbut legally light them. Trash can be burned in barrels, he said. In Parker County, most welding is also banned. Johnson County com- missioners are considering adding fireworks to the burn ban. Because of the July 4 holiday, the deadline to decide on a fireworks ban is June 15.

Campbell Lemonade benefit brings in $3,000 FORT WORTH Alocal family brought inabout $3,000 during a weekend lemonade fundraiser for cancer research. Riley Stock, and friends raised the money at on Bryant Irvin Road. The money will be donated to Lemonade Stand, a foundation named after AlexScott, agirl with neuroblastoma, one of the most aggressive forms of cancer. Riley was diagnosed with the same disease before her first birthday and is now in remission. stand was one of about 4,000 nationwide.

Gutierrez-Mier Boy, 2, drowns in swimming pool ARLINGTON A 2-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool in south Arlington on Friday, officials said. Christopher Deckerof Royce City was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at Medical Center of Arlington, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner. The death was ruled an accident. He was swimming at a town home on Matlock Road.

Agee FORT WORTH BRIEFS BEDFORD Carter BloodCare workers used to be scattered around Dallas-Fort Worth, requiring them to travel constantly to meetwithother workers. just dash across the said Jacalyn Biersmith, manager of tele- recruitment. The nonprofit organization moved 200 employeestoits main campus in Bedford at 2205 Texas 121, south of Bedford Road, following a $14.5 million expansion. About 550 people work there. The organization, which provides blood to 250 hospitals, washoused in two buildings that had been a psychiatric care facility.

One building was leveled, the otherswallowed up by the square-foot addition. The complex also houses administration, training, telephone recruiters and donor recruitment offices. Jessica 817-685-3932 HEALTHCARE HUGHES Shanda McCash and Chrystina Carpenter listen to instructorGricelda Puente during a CPR class at Carter BloodCare Center in Bedford. Bigger and better The Carter BloodCare Center opens its expanded building By JESSICA STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER HUGHES The front entrance of the Carter BloodCare CenteronMartin Drive in Bedford.Carter BloodCare recently expandedthe facility. IN THE KNOW If you go Carter BloodCare dedication ceremony, 2205 Texas 121 10 a.m.

June 27 Slug bug MAXWELL Reiss Thompson, 6, of Benbrook holds a slug at River Legacy Living Science Center in Arlington during summer classes Friday. A variety of programs and classes are offered..