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Show THE DAILY HERALD, (www HarkTheHcraid.com). Proxo, Utah, Saturday. December 30. 2000 Page A3 Feds clear way for Tribune sale " V SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Federal regulators have cleared the way for AT&T Corp. to sell The Salt Lake Tribune to Denver-baseMediaNews Group Inc. in a $200 million deal The Federal Trade Commission saw no antitrust conflict during its review of the sale and granted its on Dec. 22, Howard an FTC Shapiro, spokesman, said Friday. AT&T and MediaNews have repeatedly said they - I I'' i d " go-ahe- . I '- " - . M i' - . SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The I . I . ... f 1 f largest newspaper chain, MediaNews announced Dec. 1 that it had agreed to buy Utah's largest newspaper for $200 million from AT&T, which acquired the Tribune when it bought Inc. in 1999. On the same day, the Tribune's managers sued MediaNews and AT&T in federal court, asking for a preliminary injunction to stop the sale. They argued that AT&T broke the buyback option ! agreement signed in 1997 and violated its duty to act in good faith by doing so. The Tribune also claimed AT&T broke a preuminary contract by selling to MediaNews even while it negotiated a $180 million deal with the Tribune managers. On Dec. 15, a U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City refused to block the sale. MediaNews owns the Denver Post and 46 other daily newspapers as well as 94 nondailies in 12 states. Deseret News plans switch to morning ) I want to close the sale by the end of 2000, but Friday is the last business day of the year. By Friday afternoon there was no indication of the deal being concluded. Phone messages left with AT&T and MediaNews executives were not immediately returned. MediaNews Chief Financial Officer Jody Lodovic told the Deseret News he expects the deal will close in the next few days. The nation's seventh- - I a News expects to switch to morning publication by September but could make the move sooner, editor John Hughes said Friday. Mormon-churcThe owned paper has been trying to switch from afternoon to morning publication for several years, but had been unable to work out details with its partner, The Salt Lake Tri ; J J Deseret : h (.,flf, I bune. The sible with the Tribune's sale by AT&T to MediaNews Group Inc. The $200 million deal was announced on Dec. 1 and is expected to be completed in the next few business days. The Tribune's managers have objected to the sale, saying their management and 2002 buyback agreement with AT&T is being threatened by the deal. The Tribune has fought two newspapers' reporters and editors compete, but they share advertising, printing and circulation functions as part of a joint operating agree- ment. Hughes said the switch would be made as soon as the News and the Tribune could work out the logistics of printing and delivery. The switch became pos the News' switch to morn-ingsaying another press s; would be needed and that it would unfairly erode the Tribune's share of profits i from joint operations. The Deseret News has a about of circulation 65,000, and Hughes say's he expects that number to increase slightly when the paper switched to morning publication. The Salt Lake Tribune's circulation is 134,500. J VNfcT MONTGOMERY The Daily Herald Cloudy image: A murky haze rests below Mount Timpanogos on Friday. The inversion should hang around the Utah Valley until a storm comes through.- Pet English-onl- y the Week off WEDWARD, HO! Inversion hangs around supporters allowed to mountains will have tially cloudy skies with defense highs in the 30s Sunday, join and the site. an according morning par- The Daily Herald A COUNTY inverfog sion layer will be hanging around today. The fog should dissipate. The inversion won't until a storm comes through. High temperatures iathe valley could reach 40 degrees and lows could drop UTAH to the according to the National Weather Service Web site. Temperatures in Heber City and the mountains could reach the upper-30- s and drop to 5 degrees tonight, forecasters said. Both the valley and mid-teen- to s, " Web SALT LAKE CITY ( AP) No record temperatures were set Friday, forecasters said. Pleasant Grove reached 43 degrees; Orem, 42; Springville, 42; Provo, 41; Spanish Fork, 41; Midway, 36; and Nephi, 32. Low temperatures ranged between 20 and 22 degrees in Utah County. In Midway, they dropped to 6, and Nephi, 7. For comparison, Zion National Park reached 60; Delta, 43; Price, 42; Price, 42;Tooele; 39; Snowbird, 33; and SaltXake City, 28. Utahns for Official English has been allowed to join the defense in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutioniniality of a tiative that makes English the sole language of the state government. voter-approve- Third MEDICAL CALLS -- A Brazilian girl was taken from Sundance at 3 p.m. Friday to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo after complaining of leg pain, paramedics said. The girl is an exchange student. It was her second time g. snow-boardin- A woman was taken to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center with facial injuries after she was helping to carry a beam that fell, firefighters said. She took the full weight of it on her face. The accident happened at about 4 p.m. Friday near 330 W. Center St., Provo, firefighters said. FIRE - Firefighters stopped a blaze Thursday night before, it destroyed a home at 792 W. 400 North, Payson. "It was burning in the attic, and it burned about a quarter of the roof," said d District 2-- Scott Spencer, fire marshal. He estimated the damage was $10,000. A neighbor saw smoke coming from the structure and telephoned 911 at 8:14 p.m., Spencersaid. The home's residents were inside eating. They told firefighters they heard what sounded like rocks thrown against their house and quickly evacuated after discovering the fire. Smoke was kept from invading the home. The fire's cause is thought to be heat and fire escaping from a metal flue, Spencer said. Firefighters were at the residence for about two hours. Mike Patrick is on vacation. His column, "Web-war- d, resume Ho!," will Judge Ronald Nehring granted the group and two of its members, Rep. Jordan Tanand Frank ner, Nishiguchi, intervenor status last week. The other defendants are the state attorney general and Gov. Mike Leavitt, who opposed the initiative but is required by the Utah Constitution to defend the law. Voters approved Initiative A by a margin last month. But the American Civil Liberties Union, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, the Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, State Sen. Pete Suazo, Lake City and the Multicultural Legal Center have sued to block the new POLICE BEAT Mike Patrick next week. THE DMIY HERALD ,V 1555 Vnli Freedom Boulevard' tO. Box ?l7,PFO0toft4603-0- n wwvt.HarkThcIierald.com t ' ClaisifledAihtnisliig ' Retail AdvtrtisiDg Subscriptions ind delivery service ' 3734IS0 Newsroom 1? 1 V'l f v For Depirtments not lilted ibovt FAX "Lisa Deal" kleanii btrjkjeilra.eoin . USPS Published (ISSN: mornings, Sunday through Saturday, bv Pulitzer Newspapers, Inc., 1556 North Freedom Boulevard, Provo, Periodicals postage paid at Provo, Utah. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Daily Herald. P.O. Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-071Established August 1, 1873. lt law. Third District THEFT Business receipts were stolen from Ground Zero, 149 W. 400 North, in Orem, before Thursday, which is when the theft was discovered, police said. 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