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Golf: Mickelson surges past Woods, field at Pebble Beach

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:43:44 MDT

Golf: Mickelson surges past Woods, field at Pebble Beach

The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:43PM MDT

Pebble Beach, Calif. • He knew his game was getting close, and he broke through with flair Sunday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. That turned out to be Phil Mickelson, not Tiger Woods. In a big, big way. Mickelson went from a six-shot deficit to a two-shot lead in just six holes, closed with an 8-under 64 for a two-shot victory over Charlie Wi and gave Woods a Sunday thrashing not many saw coming. Mickelson and Woods played in the second-to-last group, and Mickelson beat him by 11 shots. He...

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NBA: Jazz defeat Grizzlies 98-88

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:42:52 MDT

NBA: Jazz defeat Grizzlies 98-88

By Brian T. Smith The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:42PM MDT

Memphis, Tenn. • The pregame messages rang out. Stick together. Stand strong. Don’t give in. And no matter what happens, don’t fall apart. By the time the Jazz had fought off the Memphis Grizzlies 98-88 on Sunday at the FedExForum, Utah had another message: What did you expect? Every time the Jazz (14-12) have shown signs of cracking or falling down this season, Utah has risen up. And every time this year’s Jazz team has flirted with turning into the disappointment that was the 2010-11 version o...

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Angst over federal health law could hurt home-grown fixes

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:42:31 MDT

Angst over federal health law could hurt home-grown fixes

By Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:42PM MDT

Utah conservatives have kept anti-federal health reform rhetoric to a murmur this legislative session. With the law’s fate resting with the U.S. Supreme Court, their attention may be elsewhere. But a dozen health bills surfaced last week, most of them empty “box cars” with vague titles that suggest some lawmakers still chafe at President Barack Obama’s signature health care overhaul. Some measures may fizzle, amounting to political posturing. But health industry lobbyists and advocates for the p...

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Rioting engulfs Athens before austerity vote

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:42:31 MDT

Rioting engulfs Athens before austerity vote

By Derek Gatopoulos and Nicholas Paphitis The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:42PM MDT

Athens, Greece • Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot police. The historic vote paves the way for Greece’s European partners and the International Monetary Fund to release $170 billion in new rescue loans, without which Greece would default on its debt mountain next month and likely leave the eurozone — a ...

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Jazz notes: Utah’s Alec Burks learns by sitting and watching

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:41:08 MDT

Jazz notes: Utah’s Alec Burks learns by sitting and watching

By Brian T. Smith The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:41PM MDT

When was the last time Alec Burks went three consecutive games sitting on the bench and was forced to helplessly watch from the sideline? High school, he said. Freshman season, to be exact. Burks was just getting his basketball career started at Grandview (Mo.). He was on the varsity team with his brother. And the younger Burks was glued to the pine. Ever since then, Burks’ talent has elevated him to the hardwood. But after earning three consecutive did-not-plays heading into Friday’s game agai...

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Jazz notes: Tyrone Corbin makes historical connection with Jazz in Memphis

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:35:37 MDT

Jazz notes: Tyrone Corbin makes historical connection with Jazz in Memphis

By Brian T. Smith The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:35PM MDT

Memphis, Tenn. • Coach Tyrone Corbin made a major connection with the Jazz before Utah even tipped off against the Grizzlies on Sunday night. Corbin took his team Saturday to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. The Jazz then went out to a team dinner that evening. The museum was formerly the Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Corbin had visited the memorial several times before. But it was the first time for Utah players ...

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Utah gymnastics: Utes win despite struggling at Arizona State

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:33:28 MDT

Utah gymnastics: Utes win despite struggling at Arizona State

By Lya Wodraska The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:33PM MDT

Tempe, Ariz. • Even the best teams can have bad days. At least in the case of Utah’s top-ranked gymnastics team, bad days don’t always translate into losses. The Utes had their worst performance of the year Sunday, but still managed to beat No. 25 Arizona State 196.15-194.0. The Utes (4-1) struggled on the uneven bars and had to count a fall on the floor as both freshman Georgia Dabritz and Stephanie McAllister fell, leaving the Utes with a season-low 48.55 on an event in which they ranked No. 1...

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Utah gymnastics notes: Corrie Lothrop takes home three wins for Utes

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:33:28 MDT

Utah gymnastics notes: Corrie Lothrop takes home three wins for Utes

By Lya Wodraska The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:33PM MDT

Tempe, Ariz. • With freshman Georgia Dabritz struggling and senior Stephanie McAllister suffering a rare fall on the floor, Utah sophomore Corrie Lothrop knew she had to carry Utah’s gymnastics team Sunday. She delivered, winning three events to pace the Utes in their 196.15-194.0 win over Arizona State. Lothrop won the all-around with a 39.4 and won the floor and balance beam with 9.9s. Lothrop has nine wins for the season and won the same events she did a week ago when Utah beat Georgia. “I wa...

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State colleges: University of Utah finishes softball tournament with win

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:33:28 MDT

State colleges: University of Utah finishes softball tournament with win

Combined news services

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:33PM MDT

Kelsi Hoopiiaina, Tia Palauni and Joni Cook each collected two hits to help the Utah softball team defeat Portland State 3-1 on Sunday in the Utes’ final game of the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz. Utah pitcher Generra Nelson did not allow an earned run and picked up her second complete game of the season. Utah State vs. Campbell, canceled • The Aggies’ final game of the Red & Black Showcase in Athens, Ga., was canceled due to cold weather. USU finished the tournament with a 2-2 record. Utah...

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Adele sweeps big awards at Grammys in night dedicated to Whitney Houston

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:13:45 MDT

Adele sweeps big awards at Grammys in night dedicated to Whitney Houston

By David Burger The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:13PM MDT

Los Angeles • While Adele was the big winner Sunday night at the 54th annual Grammy Awards at the STAPLES Center, the Saturday death of 48-year-old Whitney Houston cast a pall over the event, usually dedicated to celebrating the best and brightest luminaries in the music industry lighting the way to the future. Many artists on what is called Music’s Biggest Night referenced Houston — who delivered numerous show-stopping Grammy moments in her too-short career — in their victory speeches. Melani...

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Keep the regents

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:00:03 MDT

Keep the regents

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:00PM MDT

Some state legislators seem determined to fix higher education by removing oversight by a board of 16 regents appointed by the governor. The fact is, though, that the system already works pretty well. The Legislature passed a bill to give the governor and Senate authority to approve the appointment or dismissal of a commissioner of higher education. Currently the regents hire and fire the commissioner. The bill would require regents instead to submit their recommendation for any new commissione...

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Abortion waiting

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:00:03 MDT

Abortion waiting

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:00PM MDT

Rep. Steve Eliason, R-Sandy, is leading an effort in the Legislature to extend the waiting period prior to an abortion from 24 hours to 72. The presumption that underlies this bill is that women who seek an abortion are incompetent, ignorant or immoral. Given more time, they would make a different decision. That’s an outrageous assumption. Utah’s abortion law already requires that a woman seeking an abortion be provided detailed information about the medical consequences to herself and the fetu...

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Scott D. Pierce: Houston hovered over the Grammy Awards

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:42:02 MDT

Scott D. Pierce: Houston hovered over the Grammy Awards

By Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:42PM MDT

The Grammys opened on Sunday with a prayer for and tribute to Whitney Houston. It was tasteful. It was heartfelt. It was all that was necessary. “There is no way around this,” host LL Cool J told the crowd in the Staples Center and TV viewers after an opening number by Bruce Springsteen. “We’ve had a death in our family. So at least for me, the only thing that feels right is to begin with a prayer for a woman that we loved.” At which point he bowed his head and prayed for Houston, who died Satu...

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Richfield’s support for military families may earn it a White House honor

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:35:14 MDT

Richfield’s support for military families may earn it a White House honor

By Kristen Moulton The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:35PM MDT

Richfield’s warm support for families of deployed soldiers has landed it among 20 finalists for the national Joining Forces Community Challenge. The challenge, begun last July by Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, is aimed at celebrating those who help improve the lives of military families. A people’s choice award will be awarded based on votes via the Internet, and judges will pick five other winners, to be feted at the White House. The central Utah community of 7,000 is the only municipality amo...

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Utah-based gun safe manufacturer shows off its latest line

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:35:14 MDT

Utah-based gun safe manufacturer shows off its latest line

By Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:35PM MDT

In a state where the right to own firearms is a priority, the need to protect them is also important. Which is probably one of the reasons at least five gun safe manufacturers are headquartered in Utah. One of the higher-end companies, Orem-based Fort Knox, was at the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo at the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center over the weekend to show off its latest line of gun safes. The annual four-day expo, which ended Sunday, included some 500 guides, outfi...

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Feds seize 25 pounds of meth in Utah

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:06:03 MDT

Feds seize 25 pounds of meth in Utah

By Erin Alberty The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:06PM MDT

Federal drug agents seized $500,000 worth of methamphetamine Saturday, slowing the local traffic of an international drug network. But Drug Enforcement Agent Frank Smith said the destination may be as important as the source of the 25 pounds of meth and 100 pounds of marijuana taken from a vehicle and a home in Salt Lake County. Normally, he said, drugs in that amount are seized in Utah only while they are in transit from one major urban center to another. “This was all coming to Salt Lake,” S...

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Jazz fight off Grizzlies, 98-88, and begin road trip right

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:02:07 MDT

Jazz fight off Grizzlies, 98-88, and begin road trip right

By Brian T. Smith The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:02PM MDT

Memphis, Tenn. • Earl Watson’s pregame message to Gordon Hayward: Let it fly. G-Man did just that. The second-year Jazz forward played more like an NBA All-Star than a rising star, scoring a game-high 23 points on 8-of-12 shooting and lifting Utah to a crucial 99-88 victory against the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday at the FedExForum. Jazz-Grizzlies box score: http://bit.ly/AtZ2US Al Jefferson added 21 points and a game-high 15 rebounds for the Jazz (14-12), who ended a three-game losing streak...

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Mixed bag for U.S. snowboardcross riders at Grand Prix

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:01:50 MDT

Mixed bag for U.S. snowboardcross riders at Grand Prix

By Michael C. Lewis The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:01PM MDT

Park City • Faye Gulini is back, Graham Watanabe is leaving, and Nate Holland … well, the iconic snowboardcross rider was stung by another close-but-not-quite finish at the U.S. Grand Prix at Canyons Resort on Sunday. “I remember this from the Olympics,” he said. That’s where Holland finished fourth — painfully just off the medal podium at the 2010 Vancouver Games. And that’s where the six-time Winter X Games champion wound up at the Grand Prix, after crashing near the start. But the 19-year-old...

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Dew Tour: Rookie wins slopestyle; Park City’s Tom Wallisch finishes second

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:01:50 MDT

Dew Tour: Rookie wins slopestyle; Park City’s Tom Wallisch finishes second

By Bill Oram The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:01PM MDT

Huntsville • Nick Goepper beat his idols Sunday. Growing up in Lawrenceburg, Ind., Goepper, 17, had posters of skiers Tom Wallisch and Bobby Brown on his walls. At the end of the Dew Tour Toyota Championship at Snowbasin, he looked around and they surrounded him again, this time on the winners’ stand. Goepper scored a 95 in the men’s freeski slopestyle final to win his first major professional competition and end Wallisch’s winning streak that included the X Games and two Dew Tour stops. Wallisc...

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NHL • Detroit Red Wings tie record with 20th straight home win

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:37:02 MDT

NHL • Detroit Red Wings tie record with 20th straight home win

Published Feb 12, 2012 09:37PM MDT

Detroit • The Red Wings have finally started to embrace a record they’ve been chasing. Detroit equaled an NHL mark with its 20th straight victory at home, beating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 Sunday night thanks to Johan Franzen’s tiebreaking goal early in the third period along with timely defense and saves. “We haven’t talked about this at all,” coach Mike Babcock insisted. “We talked about it tonight because it happened.” The NHL-leading Red Wings have been more focused on trying to keep their...

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Photos of the Day, February 12, 2012.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:51:02 MDT

Photos of the Day, February 12, 2012.

The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 08:51PM MDT

A collection of the best images from around the world, February 12, 2012.

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Arab League wants U.N. peacekeepers in Syria

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:33:45 MDT

Arab League wants U.N. peacekeepers in Syria

By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 08:33PM MDT

Cairo • The Arab League called Sunday for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad’s regime, the League’s latest effort to bring an end to the violence that has killed more than 5,000 people. Syria immediately rejected the moves, spelled out in a resolution adopted by League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal conveyed the 22-nation League’s dee...

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Fuel removal under way on Italy cruise ship

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:25:35 MDT

Fuel removal under way on Italy cruise ship

By NICOLE WINFIELD The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 08:25PM MDT

Rome • Underwater pumping operations began Sunday to remove some of the 500,000 gallons of fuel aboard the Costa Concordia, officials said, nearly a month after the cruise ship ran aground off Tuscany. After nearly two weeks of delays because of rough seas and bad weather, the pumping got under way on the first of 15 tanks that are believed to hold around 84 percent of the fuel on board, Italy’s civil protection department said. Officials say it will take 28 consecutive days of pumping to empty ...

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Santorum plans aggressive strategy against Romney

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:25:35 MDT

Santorum plans aggressive strategy against Romney

By STEVE PEOPLES The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 08:25PM MDT

Portland, Maine • A day after Mitt Romney regained some momentum in the Republican presidential contest, his rival Rick Santorum went on the attack, calling the front-runner “desperate” while promising to compete aggressively to win the state where Romney grew up. Santorum said Sunday he could do “exceptionally well” in Michigan, where Romney’s father served as governor. The Midwestern state and Arizona host Republican presidential nominating contests on Feb. 28. “We’re going to spend a lot of ...

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Admiral says U.S. prepared for any Iran aggression

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:25:35 MDT

Admiral says U.S. prepared for any Iran aggression

By ADAM SCHRECK The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 08:25PM MDT

Manama, Bahrain • The top U.S. Navy official in the Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran’s military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region. Vice Adm. Mark Fox, commander of the 5th Fleet, told reporters at the naval force’s Bahrain headquarters that the Navy has “built a wide range of potential options to give the president” and is “ready today” to confront any hostile action by Tehran. He did not outline specifically how the Navy m...

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‘Emma’: Austen’s turns of phrase on Pioneer Theatre Company stage

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:12:27 MDT

‘Emma’: Austen’s turns of phrase on Pioneer Theatre Company stage

By Ben Fulton The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 08:12PM MDT

All true Jane Austen fans know the author’s famous words concerning her 1816 novel, Emma. “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” she wrote. They’re famous words because they turned out to be so famously wrong. Pride and Prejudice may offer more thrills in the roller-coaster courtship between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Persuasion offers more swooning romance. But thanks to film adaptations ranging from Alicia Silverstone’s loose approximation of the he...

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Photos of the 2012 Grammy Awards

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:50:02 MDT

Photos of the 2012 Grammy Awards

The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 07:50PM MDT

A collection of images from the 2012 Grammy Awards

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Remembrance Day for Utah’s Japanese-American vets

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:15:33 MDT

Remembrance Day for Utah’s Japanese-American vets

By Kristen Moulton The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 07:15PM MDT

This year’s Day of Remembrance will be the biggest in memory for Utahns of Japanese descent. More than 900 people have already registered for a luncheon on Saturday, and organizers have had to switch locations twice to accommodate the expected crowd, said Raymond Uno, chairman of the organizing committee. The luncheon now is planned for the Grand Ballroom at Grand America Hotel. Some 50 Japanese-American veterans of World War II will be feted and given U.S. Mint-prepared bronze replicas of the n...

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Utah gubernatorial candidate OK after truck crashes

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:15:33 MDT

Utah gubernatorial candidate OK after truck crashes

By Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 07:15PM MDT

Gubernatorial candidate Morgan Philpot and two of his campaign workers walked away uninjured after their pickup went off a highway and down a 100-foot embankment Saturday night. Philpot was in a truck with campaign workers Toby Emory and Keith Kuder as they drove in a caravan with others returning from the Uintah County Lincoln Day Dinner. The trio was coming over the crest of snowy Daniels Summit on Highway 40 when their Nissan pickup started to fishtail and went over the edge of the embankmen...

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What do Utah lawmakers seek most in prayer? Civility

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:08:02 MDT

What do Utah lawmakers seek most in prayer? Civility

By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 07:08PM MDT

Some may think that the Utah Legislature doesn’t have a prayer of being wise or civil. Actually, it does — and many of them, offered daily by Jews, Muslims, Baptists, Greek Orthodox Catholics, Methodists or Mormons, among others. House and Senate members rise to their feet daily to open sessions with prayer, voiced by leaders of local churches, interns or even lawmakers themselves. They not only seek divine help, some prayers manage to mildly chide lawmakers, lobby for a cause or offer surprises...

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World Cup skiing: Ivica Kostelic wins super-combined but injures knee

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:38:02 MDT

World Cup skiing: Ivica Kostelic wins super-combined but injures knee

The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 06:38PM MDT

Krasnaya Polyana, Russia • Ivica Kostelic captured his second consecutive World Cup super-combined title with a victory Sunday on the 2014 Sochi Olympics course, then hobbled off with an injured right knee that that might need surgery. The Croatian was in visible pain during the victory celebration, using his ski poles like crutches and struggling onto the podium on the verge of tears while sister Janica looked on crying. “You saw he could not walk,” Croatia team spokesman Vedran Pavlek said. “H...

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Top 25 college basketball: No. 12 Georgetown holds off St. John’s 71-61

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:30:03 MDT

Top 25 college basketball: No. 12 Georgetown holds off St. John’s 71-61

The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 06:30PM MDT

Washington • Freshman Greg Whittington scored a career-high 12 points, and No. 12 Georgetown hit clutch 3-pointers down the stretch in a 71-61 win over St. John’s on Sunday. Whittington, Jason Clark and Markel Starks all hit 3s in the final six minutes to counter the Red Storm’s momentum in a game in which Georgetown never trailed — but also never led by double digits until the final five seconds. Nate Lubick finished with seven points, eight rebounds, five assists and a career-high four blocks ...

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Second day of landfill search yields no results in Powell case

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:27:02 MDT

Second day of landfill search yields no results in Powell case

The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 06:27PM MDT

Puyallup, Wash. • A group of 30 volunteers continued to sift through piles of papers at a Washington state landfill on Sunday with hopes of uncovering clues possibly left behind by Josh Powell, who killed his two sons and himself in a fire at his home a week ago. Investigators from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office visited the recycling center Wednesday and conducted a brief search for the papers. The effort failed to yield anything relevant, said office spokesman Ed Troyer. The search effort r...

A.J. Walker: ‘Trolley Square doesn’t define who I am’

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:56:44 MDT

A.J. Walker: ‘Trolley Square doesn’t define who I am’

By Jeremiah Stettler The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 05:56PM MDT

There are some labels A.J. Walker doesn’t mind. Like student: Although his mind hasn’t completely recovered from a shotgun blast that left more then two dozen pellets in his head, he’s now studying international business at Westminster College. Or humanitarian: The now-20-year-old traveled to the tropical forests of eastern Africa a year ago with the nonprofit SEEE Institute to build swing sets, deliver books and install solar-powered lights for remote village schools. <freeform> <ifram...

Sports briefs: Rangers, Napoli avoid arbitration

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:55:02 MDT

Sports briefs: Rangers, Napoli avoid arbitration

Published Feb 12, 2012 05:55PM MDT

MLB • Catcher Mike Napoli and the Texas Rangers finalized a $9.4 million, one-year contract Sunday to avoid a salary arbitration hearing. Napoli, a former Salt Lake Bee, set career highs last season by hitting .320 with 30 homers and 75 RBIs in 113 games in his first season with Texas, making starts at catcher, first base and designated hitter. He spent his first five major league seasons with the Angels before being traded twice in a five-day period last winter. Napoli, 30, who made $5.8 mill...

Sandy’s Louie Vito holds on for Dew Tour win

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:16:34 MDT

Sandy’s Louie Vito holds on for Dew Tour win

By Bill Oram The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 05:16PM MDT

Huntsville • Louie Vito ran toward Iouri Podladtchikov and slapped his hand. Then the Sandy resident wrapped his rival in a hug. Briefly, in the moments Saturday after a record-setting superpipe final at the Dew Tour T, two of the world’s best snowboarders were one. When they finally separated, the two were just one point apart. In a series of firsts for the sport and event at Snowbasin, Podladtchikov’s 97-point run was not enough to top Vito’s 98, which was highlighted by a string of four doubl...

Monday’s TV/radio programming

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:54:03 MDT

Monday’s TV/radio programming

Published Feb 12, 2012 04:54PM MDT

Television — NBA • Minnesota at Orlando, 5 p.m., NBATV • Utah at New Orleans, 6 p.m., ROOT • Phoenix at Golden State, 8:30 p.m., NBATV Men’s college basketball • Syracuse at Louisville, 5 p.m., ESPN • Iowa State at Baylor, 5 p.m., ESPNU • Kansas at Kansas State, 7 p.m., ESPN • Maryland-Eastern Shore at Coppin State, 7 p.m., ESPNU NHL • San Jose at Washington, 5:30 p.m., NBC Sports Women’s college basketball • Kentucky at Tennessee, 5 p.m., ESPN2 • UConn at Oklahoma, 7 p.m., ESPN2 Soccer • Sien...

Wild horse allies: BLM panel stacked against them

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:02:02 MDT

Wild horse allies: BLM panel stacked against them

By Scott Sonner The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 03:02PM MDT

Reno, Nev. • Wild horse protection advocates are accusing the federal Bureau of Land Management of stacking a public advisory board with friends of cattle ranchers at the expense of mustangs, and warning that the panel is increasingly sympathetic to the idea of slaughtering excess animals in overpopulated herds on U.S. lands in the West. BLM officials deny the charges and are fighting back in uncharacteristically strong terms, saying the activists are resorting to dishonest scare tactics to help...

Snow to fall in mountains, rain along the valleys

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:59:40 MDT

Snow to fall in mountains, rain along the valleys

By Sheena McFarland The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 02:59PM MDT

Skiers and snowboarders rejoice! Back-to-back storm systems will move through Utah Sunday through Tuesday, bringing large accumulation totals in the mountains while leaving a rain and snow mix in the valleys along the Wasatch Front, according to National Weather Service forecaster Mike Seaman. The storm could drop about 3 to 6 inches in most mountains, with the upper Cottonwoods receiving upward of 8 inches, he said. The storm that will blow through Monday and Tuesday could drop another foot in...

Investigators seek answers to Whitney Houston’s death

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:22:11 MDT

Investigators seek answers to Whitney Houston’s death

By Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Published Feb 12, 2012 11:22AM MDT

Los Angeles • Investigators worked Sunday to piece together what killed Whitney Houston as the music industry’s biggest names prepared for a Grammy Awards show that will be undoubtedly feel as much like a memorial as a celebration. Houston’s body arrived at a Los Angeles morgue early Sunday, hours after the 48-year-old had been found dead in a hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was preparing for a pre-Grammy gala. Officials did not say when an autopsy would occur, but any cause of...

Trolley Square shooting: Five years later, victims share their stories

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:26:37 MDT

Trolley Square shooting: Five years later, victims share their stories

The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:26AM MDT

They dread the day, but it came and they faced it. Five years ago Sunday, their lives changed inexorably. Yet as a group, if survivors of the Feb. 12, 2007, Trolley Square rampage could say one thing to their fellow Utahns, it would be this: Please don’t let that day alone define us. They’ve had time to cope, to heal, to love. “You have to remember you can be happy and still have that pain,” said Steven Hinckley, whose 15-year-old daughter, Kirsten, was among Sulejman Talovic’s victims. As Uta...

Remembering Kirsten Hinckley: ‘You can be happy and still have that pain’

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:15:03 MDT

Remembering Kirsten Hinckley: ‘You can be happy and still have that pain’

By Julia Lyon The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:15AM MDT

Sometimes people ask Scott Hinckley what the pale pink bracelet on his left wrist symbolizes. “They don’t usually like the outcome of the story,” he said. But he’s not afraid to talk about his sister, 15-year-old Kirsten Hinckley, who died in a card store at Trolley Square, a victim of a Bosnian refugee’s random shooting spree. His mother, Carolyn Tuft, was crouching next to Kirsten when Sulejman Talovic first shot them. The teenager returned a few minutes later to fire again. Tuft could feel ...

Starting Over: Rich Quinn begins a new chapter of his life

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:13:02 MDT

Starting Over: Rich Quinn begins a new chapter of his life

By Christopher Smart The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:13AM MDT

Rich Quinn doesn’t want to be known as “that guy whose wife was murdered at Trolley Square.” For his own peace of mind, he had to move beyond that. But he struggled desperately for three years with the reality that the love of his life and his wife of four years, 29-year-old Vanessa Quinn, had been gunned down at random along with four others on Feb. 12, 2007. Rich was supposed to meet Vanessa at Trolley Square, where the pair had planned to buy wedding bands. “We got married on the spur of the ...

Stacy Hanson: Tough is what it takes to live life changed by Trolley Square shooting spree

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:10:02 MDT

Stacy Hanson: Tough is what it takes to live life changed by Trolley Square shooting spree

By Robert Kirby The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:10AM MDT

Stacy Hanson doesn’t want that night five years ago to be the focus of the rest of his life, but it’s easier said than done when there are so many constant reminders. “Before I got shot, Colleen and I were doing whatever we wanted in life,” Stacy said. “That night changed our relationship in every way.” In the years since Sulejman Talovic fired three shotgun blasts into Stacy as the Salt Lake City man shopped for a Valentine’s Day card for Colleen, the couple has had to face a new reality. “We ...

Shawn Munns: ‘Still the same guy’

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:08:02 MDT

Shawn Munns: ‘Still the same guy’

By Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:08AM MDT

Shawn Munns just doesn’t dwell on it. Or at least, he tries not to. As Utah marks the fifth anniversary of the Trolley Square shootings, Munns is focusing on “business as usual.” “I’m fine,” said Munns, 39 and a father of three. “I’m just a day-in, day-out kind of guy.” Once in a while, Munns said, something will remind him of that day’s events, but it’s a passing thought. Friends and family usually check in around this time of year, too, he said. But, “it is not at the front of my mind a lot,”...

‘We lost two’ on that day

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:07:03 MDT

‘We lost two’ on that day

Published Feb 12, 2012 10:07AM MDT

Teresa Blair Ellis, 29, and Brad Frantz, 24, arrived at Trolley Square together on a dinner date to celebrate a work bonus that Ellis had received. They also planned to do some Valentine’s Day shopping. Both were shot and killed by Sulej-man Talovic. Frantz left behind a 3-year-old daughter. Frantz’ mother, June Wangerin, said she could not talk about the tragedy at Trolley Square five years ago. She said she has been in ill health since the deaths of Frantz and Ellis. “We lost two,” she said ...

Paul Rolly: Canyons District’s settlement in racism case was $55k

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:03 MDT

Paul Rolly: Canyons District’s settlement in racism case was $55k

By Paul Rolly Tribune Columnist

Published Feb 12, 2012 09:55AM MDT

Canyons School District has agreed to pay former Alta High assistant principal Mark Montague $55,000 to settle a grievance he filed after being transferred amid implications he had condoned racist incidents. The district also will remove a letter of reprimand and notice of probation from his file. Montague, in the settlement agreement, promised to drop all claims he may have against the district. He also agreed to resign. I wrote about Montague’s settlement with the district last month, but had...