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Show 50th Grammy Awards results page 1 Getting to know your local puppet maker A6 1 our towns Monday Utah Valley FEBRUARY U, 2008 EDITION www.heraldextra.com 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS - YOUR NEWSPAPER .. """" - it DENNIS mm es, cwmans vf - t Press COOKAssociated i Margaret Williams, chief of staff for first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, ponders a question r while testifying on Capitol Hill on Dec. 1 1,19 before the Senate Whitewater Committee. Clinton r.tMi replaces campaign mana Beth Fouhy .. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS .WASHINGTON Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton re- - . placed campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with longtime aide Maggie Williams on Sunday, engiin a presidenneering a shake-utial campaign struggling to overcome rival Sen. Barack Obama's financial and political strengths. The surprise announcement came hours after Obama's sweep of three contests Saturday and shortly before the Illinois senator won caucuses in Maine on Sunday. Determined to stem the tide, Clinton turned to a longtime confidante to manage her operations while the campaign acknowledged that she made a private visit to North Carolina this week to seek the endorsement of former rival John Edwards. Her rival Barack Obama was planning his own meeting Monday with Edwards, who confidants said was torn over which candidate to back. Campaign aides said Solis Doyle made the decision to leave on her p See CLINTON, at a US Army soldier of the 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment during neighborhood in north Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday. An Iraqi boy looks a house search Kim ' THE Gamel ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD Car bombs and men struck new U.S. allies, police and civilians Sunday in northern Iraq, killing as many as 53 people. The spate of attacks came even as the American military released a captured diary and another document in Iraq crackthey say show ing under a Sunni revolt against its brutal tactics. The violence coincided with a visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Baghdad, where he warned that hard choices face Iraq's political leaders on how to stabilize the country despite promising new signs of progress toward reconciliation. The deadliest bombing on Sun- day was near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, against a checkpoint manned jointly by Iraqi police and members of an awakening group. . Iraqi police said a suicide truck bomber targeted a checkpoint d manned by fighters and Iraqi police at the entrance of a bridge in the district of Yathrib U.S.-allie- Gutierrez ' KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The death of Heath Ledger from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs last month has exposed an;alarming trend among the rest of us. Unintentional deaths from prescription and illegal drug abuse are now the nation's second-leadincause of accidental deaths only auto accidents claim more Victims. But the fastest and most alarming increases are due to prescription drug misuse. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deaths from accidental overdose rose from 12,186 to 20,950 between 1999 and 2004. g : See PRESCRIPTIONS, A3 other stores. Police in the joint coordination center of the surrounding Salahud-di- n province and hospital officials See IRAQ, A2 Possible end in sight for writer's strike Guild leaders ask members to vote on tentative contract to end walkout Lynn Elber Lisa on the outskirts of Balad. Security forces opened fire on the driver, but he managed to detonate his payload, devastating a nearby car market and ... THE MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Press in the Azamiyah More than 50 killed in Iraq during Gates visit A3 Ledger death highEghts danger of multiple prescriptions NIEDRINGHAUSAssociated ANJA ' - ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES The Writers Guild of America moved swiftly Sunday toward a resolution of its strike, with guild leaders deciding to recommend a tentative contract to members and ask them to vote on a quick end to the walkout. By calling for separate votes on ending the strike and accepting the new three-yea- r deal, the union cleared the way for the entertaind ment industry to return to work almost immediately. Membership meetings will be held Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles to allow writers to decide whether the strike should be brought to a speedy end, said , '.; RIC FRANCISAssociated Press Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America board member Nancy De Los Santos, who's also a film and guild's West Coast branch. "This is the best deal this guild television writer, waits for a news conference to start Sunday in Los Angeles. DAILY HERALD Even as they have ruled out a cancer cluster in Lindon, state epidemiologists are con- ducting a study to determine whether there is a cluster of rare leukemia cases in the Al ' ; pine area. The study of acute myelogenous leukemia cases is being done at the request of residents, but officials are asking for concerned community members to suspend judge- - .. ment. Early indicators may show two weeks. See STRIKE, Partly OUR TOWNS B1 OBITUARIES B3 EDITORIALS A5 SPORTS CI SCOREBOARD C5 HIGH 44 LOW 24 VOLUME 85 ISSUE 195 . WEATHER LIFE & STYLE COMICS ; - ; See CLUSTER, A2 these types of hearing aid offers. in by Check the bottom line, written guarantees and after delivery service. ;.- - A3 cloudy little evidence of a cluster, said John Amadio, epidemiologist with the state health department. The study is not expected to be complete until April. ; "At this point we see nothing that would be reason for the Don't be taken 3 DAYS ONLY d movies. "If they (producers) get paid, we get paid. This contract makes that a reality," Verrone said. But, he added, "it is not all we hoped for and it is not all we deserved." Still, the union's negotiating committee recommended Saturday that the contract be accepted, and the West guild's board of directors and the East Coast guild's council agreed. They called for a membership ratification vote, which will be conducted by mail over about INSIDE State investigates Alpine cancer cluster Caleb Warnock has bargained for in 30 years," Verrone said. The tentative contract secures writers a share of the burgeonmarket, he ing digital-medi- a said, including compensation for Internet-delivereTV shows and D1 D4 6 ni,61055 000501 |