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Show Thursday March 13, 21 km i 0Ay UTAH VAI 1.1 www.hpraldexlracom 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN - YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR I rfTr"? : Kav Kohl's to open inOrem Grace Leong 175,000-square-fo- the property with Amsource Development of Salt Lake City, confirmed to the Daily Herald on Wednesday. Kohl's, a Menomonee Falls, department store chain that first entered Utah in 2004 with five stores including one in American Fork, is opening its second Utah County location in Orem. There are now eight Kohl's stores and a total of 739 store , employees in Utah. A new store in Centerville is opening in April. Construction of the new Kohl's store, to be located at 1273 S. 800 East, is expected to be completed by early November. The department store will take up 90,000 square feet of space at the former Fred Meyer building within the Eastpointe Shopping Center. Kohl's will share that building with Gold's Gym, now occupying 70,000 square feet, and three other tenants, Beaches Tanning Center, American Laser Center and Cascade Spinal Rehab Center. "We began talking with Kohl's two years ago," said Collier Reid, senior leasing director of Woodbury, which also owns University Mail in Orem and Meadows Mall in American Fork. "Kohl's signed a lease with us for the Fred Meyer building about a week ago," said Rob Kallas, general manager of University Mall and Eastpointe Shopping Center. Among reasons cited for Kohl's decision to open in Orem was the proximity of the proposed site to University Mall and other nearby anchors like Costco, as well as to outdoor retail cena new ter and Cinemark theater that's being built as part of University Mall's expansion, Reid said. The East Village at University . 20-ac- See KOHL'S, A4 "" 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 B1 WEATHER B8 OUR TOWNS C1 OBITUARIES C2.C3 IN UV MOVIES IN UV 6 Rain and snow HIGH 53 LOW 35 C4 BUSINESS COMICS much as 20 years for some that have the most serious pollution problems. EPA estimates that by 2020 : the number of counties failing to meet the new health standard will drop to about 28. About 85 counties still fall short of the old standard enacted a decade ago. Five counties in Utah H. Josef Hebert Davis, Salt Lake, Utah, Washington and Weber now are in violation of the rules. the associated press : ,':,vt-''X:;AvSome of those chronic polluters are far above the WASHINGTON The air in hundreds of U.S. old limit, Los Angeles County and a large swatch of counties is simply too dirty to breathe, the governsouthern California, for example, and a long stretch ment said Wednesday, ordering a multibillion-dolla- r from Washington up to New England on the East Coast, Some areas that would be newly included expansion of efforts to clean up smog in cities and towns nationwide. under the stricter standard include Indianapolis and The Environmental Protection Agency announced Cleveland's Cuyahoga County in the Midwest; Moit was tightening the amount of ozone, commonly bile, Ala., and Jacksonville, Fla., in the South and FJ known as smog, that will be allowed in the air. But Paso, Texas, and Tulsa, Okla., out West. All of Florida and Oklahoma currently comply the lower standard still falls short of what most health experts say is needed to significantly reduce with the smog standard. Nine counties in each state heart and asthma attacks from breathing are unable to meet the tougher requirement. air. Johnson's decision was met with sharp criticism EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson called the from health experts and some members of Congress new limits "the most stringent standards ever," and accused the EPA chief of ignoring the science. The he said they will require 345 counties out of more new standard goes counter to the recommendations than 700 that are monitored to make air quality of two of the agency's scientific advisory panels one on air quality and the other on protection of improvements because they now have dirtier air than is healthy to breathe. children. Johnson said that state and local officials have coasiderable time to meet the requirements as See DIRTY AIR, A8 Vcstlarcd cited as unhealthy to breathe Counties in western states that are now in violation, according to the EPA. VOLUME 85 ISSUE 226 lll,61055' 00050l,,l8 Arizona: Gila, Maiicopa, Pima, Pinal California: Alameda, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Nevada, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Shasta, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare, Tuolumne, Ventura, Yolo Colorado: Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson, Weld smog-clogge- d Idaho: Ada Nevada: Clark New Mexico: None Utah: Davis, Salt Lake, Utah, Washington, Weber Wyoming: None The city of Provo is barely visible from Rock Canyon Park due to an inversion on Jan. 24. CRAIQ DILOERDaily Herald - A.F. man pleads guilty in child abuse death Jeremy Duda cers that the child fell off a bed, a distance of about 27 inches. According to police, he later admitted to the abuse, saying that An American Fork man he didn't want his son to grow charged with killing his son in an act of child up to be a "crybaby." abuse pleaded guilty to aggra"Emotionally, this is a mistake that he'll be paying for the vated murder on Wednesday, setting himself up for a possible rest of his life. He's extremely life sentence but avoiding the remorseful," said public defender Gunda Jarvis, who repdeath penalty. resented Putnam. Jason Mikaele Putnam, 24, entered his plea at a hearing Judge Steven Hansen scheduled a three-da- y at Provo's 4th District Court. sentencing Hansen Prosecutors had said they were hearing for June v, described Putnam's two possible considering asking for the death penalty, but promised not sentences: life without the posto pursue capital punishment as sibility of parole, and 20 years to life, which would leave the part of Putnam's plea deal. Putnam was charged with ag- possibility of parole open. Jarvis said the prosecution's gravated murder in June after threat of the death penalty was his son, Jordan, died from a JASON OLSONAssociated Press multitude of injuries, including a the primary factor that led her his his Jason office to Putnam a listens in Tom Means skull fractured to deal, pursue right during spleen, plea appearance attorney ruptured 4th District Court on Wednesday. Putnam pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal and torn blood vessels. Police son Jordan last June. See PUTNAM, A8 homicide stemming from the death of his said Putnam initially told offi DAILY HERALD 11-1- 3. N.Y. gov resigns amid scandal 111. Many wonder whySpitzer's wife just stood by trial for briefly THE ASSOCIATED PRESS pool mora goes to leaving child in car Verena Dobnik, Michael Gormley and Joe Garofoli Don Babwin AND THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In a startlingly swift fall from grace, Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday after getting scandal that caught in a call-gimade a mockery of his straight-arroimage and left him facing the prospect of criminal charges and perhaps disbarment. "I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work," Spitzer said, his weary-lookin- g wife, Silda, standing at his side, again, as the corruption-fightin- g politician once known as Mr. Clean answered for his actions for the second time in three days. He made the announcement without securing a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, though a law enforcement official said w A11 SPORTS IXcttTtbo EPA toughens requirements; 345 counties -- five in Utah - rl A6 EDITORIALS DAILY DIGEST V r. : HERALD The former Fred Meyer building located in a sleepy strip mall just off University Parkway and 800 East in Orem is about to get a lot busier. The building in Orem, already home to the largest Gold's Gym in the state, will soon be getting a new Kohl's department store, an official with Woodbury Corp., which d vk rotes violates rew w i store Wis.-base- - r L DAILY V i:nmo ' Py if: " ' ) f STEPHEN CHERNIN Associated Press New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer announces his resignation Wednesday amid a prostitution scandal as his wife, Silda, looks on in his offices in New York City. the former governor was still believed to be negotiating one. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. Spitzer will be succeeded on Monday by Lt. Gov. David a fellow Democrat who becomes New York's first black governor and the nation's first legally blind chief executive. Law enforcement officials said the governor the millionaire heir to a New York real estate See SPITZER, A4 ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO Treffly Coyne was out of her car for just minutes and no more than 10 yards away. But that was long and far enough to land her in court after a police officer spotted her sleepdaughter alone in the vehicle; ing Coyne had taken her two older daughters to pour $8.29 in coins into a Salvation Army kettle. Minutes later, she was under arrest the focus of both a police investigation and a probe by the state's child welfare agency. Now the case has become an Internet flash point for people who either blast police for overstepping their authority or Coyne for putting a child in danger. The suburban mother is preparing to go on trial Thursday on misdemeanor charges of child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer. If convicted, she could be sentenced to a year in jail and fined $2,500, even See COYNE, A4 |