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Show !SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 STATE ' NEWSWEEK' ARTICLE.RECEIVES RESPONSE FROM LDS CHURCH: Officials from the Church of Jesu Christ of Latter-day aints _responded to the even-page cover story by Newsweek religion editor Kenneth Woodward la t week with a letter to th editors. th article potlighted th religion and relationship to the lympic . It ' Newsweek's ' Sep. also touched on 10 Issue many LO pol nt of theo1 gy and what he a.id to be a light h.ift from emphasizing Jo eph mith, the founder of th faith, to Jesus Christ. Church officials said they found the article about 80 percent correct and had problem only with the idea of the hift and the fact that a portrait of Jo eph F. mith was put on the Intern t in place of founder Jo eph ntith. The photo mistake was not made in print. •t' TWO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS CHARGED FOR MANSLAUGHTER: Two 17-year-old Murray High chool student were each charged for on count of manslaughter, three counts of aggravated assault, and one count of exhibition driving Wi clnesday. The boys were allegedly drag racing on a Murray street August 31, when one of the boy hit a g.roup of eighth-graders, killing 13year-old Craig Warburton , who died on the cene. Th boy: will not be charged as adults because man laughter is not on a list of crim covered by the erlou Youth ffender Act. If the boys are con icted and irnprisonect, they would be released when they reach age 21 . Brian Orr, 13, suffered head injuries, another boy uffered minor injuries and .a fourth was unhurt. TWO WOMEN KILLED IN PLEASANT VIEW: A 27-year-old . woman and her mother, 60, died from muJtiple gunshot wounds Thursday. Richard Jeremy Funk 31 , was later charged with nin felony counts fo r alleg dly kidnapping and hooting to death h · ex-wife, Tricia Woodruff and her mother, Patri ia Woodruff. Tricia Woodruff had taken legal tep · to keep Funk away from her and her family for the past four years and at one point had accused Funk of threatening to kill her and her live-in boyfriend which r ulted in a protective order barring Funk from . iting Tricia Woodruff Ogden apartment. If convicted, Funk may face the death penalty. SLC CONVENIENCE STORE CLERK MURDERED THURSDAY: After a burglar robbed a tmshine Food Mart in alt lake City, he shot and murdered the clerk, Kang Ho Lee, a 24year-old linguistics rudent from Korea attending th University of tah, who police said did everything he hot1ld have. Lee was found by a customer, already dead 15 minut after th murder. Th crime was caught on the store' video- urveillance amera and how the general tature of the man to UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS be average siz . The man's face was covered with a baodana, and h was wearing a baseball hat. Police are still searching for th uspect. NATION WANTED IIEN CAUGHT IN MINNESOTA: Two men wanted in Minnesota were caught in Yellowstone ationaJ Park Friday. The men are wanted in connection with the robbing and beating of an elderly couple. Patrick Engelbrecht, 18 and Thomas O'Flanagan, 19, and and unidentified female were en in a stolen pickup truck the park Friday by a park ran er, police said. The men had tolen the truck in New Brighton, Minn., on August 5 from th coup! who are still recovering in the ho pital. 8-YEAR·OLD NEW YORK BOY CHARGED WITH MURDER: An 8year-old boy wa charged with criminally negligent homicide Frida for allegedly stabbing to death a 4-year-old neighbor. The usp ct's 9-year-old brother was also charg d with assault for his rol in the attack , and both were charged as juvenile . Polic aid the 8year-old tabbed Emanuel Bari.ma in the neck with either a set of hous key or a pen while the boy played with his i ter outside th ir Bronx apartment Wedn day. The br th rs are ome of the younge t peopl ever cbaiged in the United tates in a slaying. · HOMES DESTROYED IN CALIFORNIA WILD FIRES: ln California, wild fires doubled in ize with the help of fierce winds in northern California near Lake Oroville Friday, forcing Wild fi res In Californ ia peopl to evacuate, destroying at lea t eight home , cio ing freeway , and threatening some 200 other home . Another blaze in Calaveras County we t of Yo entite ational Park corch d 1,850 acres, where nine communities were evacuated and fire thr atened th water supply to four towns. HEWLETT-PACKARD AND COMPAQ MERGE: Hewlett-Packard · Co. and riyal Compaq Computer Co_rp. agreed Monday to join in a $25 billion merger, which will make the company second to IBM in the computer hardware bu ine . The merger i · expected to be completed during the first half of next year and will also put the company, which would keep the HP name, ahead of Dell Computer as the leading supplier of personal computers, wb took th.e yosition from Compaq earlier in the year. PROSECUTORS SEEK DEATH PENALTY FOR NICHOLS: The new district attorney Jo Oklahoma announc d Wedne day that the tare will prosecute Terry ichols for murder in th 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and will seek the death penalty. C. Wesley Lane ald he decid d to pr ceed with. the tate prosecution as insurance against the p 'bility that Nichol could win an appeal of his 1997 federal -conviction. ichols is currently serving a life entence. WORLD DOZENS KILLED IN NIGERIA: It ports aturday aid dozens of p ople had b en kill d in the city of Jo ,about SO miles northeast of Lago . The killings were a result of fighting between Christians and Mu lims that began as a minor dispute betw en th two ethnic groups, arguing over who would receive a low-level government po ition after Muslim prayer Friday afternoon. PROTESTS LEAVE ONE DEAD AND FOUR INJURED: PAGE 11 -I HEWITT, VENUS WIN U.S. OPEN TENNIS TITLES: While The older sister taught a lesson to the younger on aturday at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Aushlng Meadows, N.Y. , Pete ampras will have to wait a while longer for that • 14th Grand lam title. The record-holder with 13 of tho e champion hip pent mo t of the past two weeks at the U. . Op n repairing a tattered tennis reputation . Yest rday, he urrounded th.e reco ery with question marks . For the second straight year, a 20-year-old young gun spoiled ampras' bid for a Jam champion hip. A year ago, Marat afin tarted ampra ' rumble into mediocrity, beating hjm in the final of the Open. Lley:oon Hewitt pun tuated it with a 7.(, ( ), 6-1 , 6-1 victory. On the ladie id Venus Williams took it to her little si ter crena as Venu won her e ond straight S Open title. With each dynamite troke and dominating victory, Venu Williams looks more and more like the be t wom n 's tennis play r in the world. By beating 19-year-old erena 6-2, 6-4 in their latest lacklu ter encounter, Venus capped two week of brilliance in which sh didn't lo ea et en route to her cond straight pen title. LEISURE four policeman injured. The protests are a result of Protestant residen who aid they no longer wanted the girls who attend the Catholic girls' school near their neighborhood passing through. Parents have begun to · walk their daughters with police escorts to protect their children. St udents In Belfast, North Ire land ISRAELIS SHOT DURING DISPUTES: Thursday, an I raeli man was sho d ad and an Israeli woman was eri u ly wound don the I ra li ' ide of th Green Lin , the liOJ eparating Israel fr m th We t Bank and Ga.7..a. The man and woman were shot at by PaJesti,Qian gunmen in r p nse to an Israeli helicopter attack earlier in the day which left two Pale tinian dead and even others wounded. Israeli For ign Minister himon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Ya ser Arafat may meet this week in attempts to negotiate a cease-fire, I ·raeH political ource aid Thursday. SPORTS BONDS CRACKS THREE HOMERS TO REACH 63 MARK: Barry Bonds hit three home runs ye terday to give him 63 for the season, passing Roger Maris' oncemagical mark and moving him clo er to Mark McGwire's record. Playing at Denver' Coors Field, Bonds broke Maris' record of 61 for most homers in a season by a left-handed hitter. Bond ha 18 games left to break McGwire's record of 70 et in 1998 and is one ahead of McGwir ' pace of that yeac. After an off-day Monday, Bond and the ·an Francisco Giant begin a series at Hou ton' homer-friendly Enron Field. THIRD AUSTIN POWERS MOVIE TO BE MADE:A third Austin Powe movie, entitled Goldmetnber, is et to be relea ed July 26. booting i et to tart ro idNovem ber. Mike Mike Myers as Myers who wrote Austin Powers the script with Michael McCulJers, will play play Powers, hi nem is Dr. 1:vil, Fat Bastard, and the title character Goldmember, a villain who bas some unu ual qualitie that Myers and director Jay Roacl1 will try to keep ret untiJ th film ' release . MTV'S VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS ENTERTAIN AUDIENCES: Th MTV Video Music Awards were hosted Thursday by comedian Jamie Foxx Britney Spears at who started of MTV'sVMAs the evening with recent hits sung to opera. The big winners of the evening included Fatboy lim' vide Weapon of Choice, with the most awards-six total, 'N Sync's video Pop, with four award , including the viewer's choice award, and the video Lady Marmalade, a collaboration by Christin: Aguilera, Pink, Maya, and Li'I Kim, which took home best video. Among performance highlights were the , urpri e performan e of Michael Jack 01 at th end of ' ync's Pop, dancing for only a few econd but bringing the qowd tO its feet , and Britney pears' performance with a boa constrictor of her new song i 'ro Slave for You " |