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Show A Check out Utah's newest outdoor ;sO ft Wednesday March '-- 2008 12. ebsite. utah valley 'IP Edition www.heraldextra.com 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN - YOUR NEIGHBORS - YOUR NEWSPAPER Court up holds Olsen's perjury sentence of Jeremy Duda DAILY HERALD Regardless of whether he is convicted of n Davis's murder, Timmy Brent Olsen can look forward to more than a decade behind bars once the case comes to an end The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday issued a ruling upholding the 12- federal prison sentence Olsen received in 2006 after being convicted of 15 counts of perjury. Under federal sentencing guidelines, Olsen's conviction would normally merit a sentence : Timmy Olsen also said the court abused its discretion by not severing three of his 15 perjury counts that were unrelated to the Davis investigation. The perjury counts stemmed from Olsen's 2005 testimony to a federal grand jury that was investigating Davis's disappearance. In its ruling, the appeals court said that the district court did not need to apply a higher standard of proof for the of Olsen's sentence. The judge needed only to find that his perjury interfered with a murder investigation. 4 months. But federal prosecutors said Olsen's perjury was committed in respect to a murder investigation and asked the court for the extraordinarily long sentence. Olsen appealed the sentence to the court of appeals in January, arguing that the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City violated his due . process rights by not applying a high enough his standard of evidence to perjury conviction with murder. With the of the charges, he argued that federal prosecutors transformed the perjury sentence into the "functional equivalent of a murder sentence," the ruling said. 18-2- cross-referen- See Olsen at MARIO Daily Mo w Lehi's c .( ' j .... J'" alternate route rejected Point of the Mountain connector deemed too expensive, unsafe V. Caleb Warnock DAILY ' 1 jd - The city's preferred route, which would have connected the Mountain View Corridor freeway to Interstate 15 at the Point of the Mountain instead of cutting through the city as proposed by UDOT, is impossible because it is too expensive and potentially unsafe, Teri Newell of UDOT told Council members. "What we decided is that this option was not reasonable," said Newell. "It has been removed from further " V - s f i HERALD Lehi City Council members were left speechless on Tuesday as UDOT dealt a death blow to the city's proposal to keep a second freeway from bisecting the community. mm ,! RUIZ Herald OLSEN, A 7 o OA I Y Ancient Life Lessons z the Fourth District Court in Provo on Jan. 15. I consid-eratioa- CRAIG DILQERDaily Herald ebbie Maughan, an educator at Thanksgiving Point, points out the skeleton of a baby Andrew Jones in the Museum of Ancient Life as part of an mammoth to Adventure Class on Tuesday. 'Shark Tails' is one of the many educational trips that Thanksgiving Point offers, allowing students to look in the mouth of the Megalodon shark and participate in a hands-o- n ocean adventure. five-year-o- ld The Federal Highway Administration, which ultimately must approve whatever route is chosen for the Mountain View freeway, had concerns with Lehi's proposal, forcing UDOT to redesign the proposed road to become a snare of ramps and lanes where it met Interstate 15, Newell said. That would have jumped the price to build the road to $1.26 billion dollars, compared to $540 million to build the See A2 ALTERNATE, PHARMACEUTICALS IN WATER Photos FOR SALE See a photo you would like to have in your home or office? Daily Herald photos now are available online at heraldextra.comgallery. INSIDE BRIEFING A4 EDITORIALS A6 OUR TOWNS B1 B2.B3 OBITUARIES B4 BUSINESS CI ' SPORTS & HIGH 54 LOW 34 C8 WEATHER LIFE Mostly cloudy STYLE D1 D4 COMICS VOLUME 85 ISSUE 225 I 6 Study says 1 in 4 U.S. No standards, no mandates teen girls has an STD First study shows to test, treat or limit drugs rates high Lindsey Tanner STD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza and Justin Pritchard THE ' ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA Just a century ago, this historic city notched by the Delaware and Schuylkill treated these rivers as public sewers, but few cared until the waters ran black with stinking filth that spread cholera and typhoid. Today, municipal drinking water is cleansed of germs but not drugs. Traces of 56 human and veterinary pharmaceuticals or their byproducts like the active ingredients in medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems have been detected in Philadelphia's drinking water. Starting their winding journey in medicine cabinets and feed bins, they are what's left of drugs excreted or discarded from homes and washed from farms upriver. Is Philadelphia worried? Not so "61055 00050"" s See WATER, A2 RIC FRANCISAssociated The Reverse Osmosis building is Press part of the purification process at the Orange County Water District's Groundwater Replenishment system in Fountain Valley, Calif. CHICAGO At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-o- f federal study that startled some adolescent-healt- h experts. Some doctors said the numbers might be a reflection of both abstinence-only sex education and teens' own sense of invulnerability. Because some sexually transmitted infections can cause infertility and cancer, U.S. health officials called for better screening, vaccination and prevention. Only about half of the girls in the study acknowledged having sex. Some teens define sex as only intercourse, yet other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some diseases. Among those who admitted having sex, the rate was even more disturbing 40 percent had an STD. "This is pretty shocking," said Dr. Elizabeth Alderman, an adolescent medicine specialist at Montefiore See STDS.A7 About 3.2 million teenage girls are infected with a common sexually transmitted disease, according to the first CDC study examining the national prevalence among adolescents. Common sexually transmitted diseases (STD), girls aged 14-1- 9 OVERALL PREVALENCE ETS22ia 26 INFECTIONS TESTED FOR Human papillomavirus (HPV) Chlamydia D4 Trichomoniasis 12.5 Herpes simplex virus 2 RACEETHNICITY Black : 1148 While Mexican Americans est: in20 SOURCE: Centers tor Disease Control and Prevention AP S3 j r |