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Show r. mm Monday December 10,2007 www.heraldextra.com I II 1 50 CENTS YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR TOWN Utah Valley edition I I H r" YOUR NEWSPAPER IN OUR TOWNS Hay Business QfHEffi) Award-winnin- hay grown in Cedar Fort for more than a century g Li Christians Cok (Met State Two die at missionary training center -65 miles and 12 hours later, 2 others die Judith Kohler THE center in Arvada, while a rifle was used at the New Life Church in Colorado The police chief in Arvada, a suburb about 15 miles west of Denver where the mission workers were shot, said the shootings may be related to those in Colorado Springs but declined to elaborate., No one had been captured in the Arvada shootings, authorities said. The mission training program in Arvada does have a small office on the Colorado Springs church campus. Witness descriptions differed in each incident. A handgun was used in the shootings at the Youth With a Mission ASSOCIATED PRESS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. A gunman shot four staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday, killing two, after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later and 65 miles away in Colorado Springs, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said. "1 guard after entering the church's main rifle shortly foyer with before 1 p.m. and opening fire, Colorado Springs Police Chief Richard Myers said. Four others were wounded, Myers said. The church's 11 a.m. service had recently ended, and hundreds of people were milling about when the gunman opened fire. Nearby were parents picking up their children from the nursery. Police arrived to find that the gunman d I t-- c. OSS i -- BRYAN See were aware of waterboarding, did not object Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen THE , CRAIQ A snowboarder falls over Gazette Lawmakers - X OLLERThe are seen outside New Life Church on SHOOTINGS, A3 Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo. s 1 - Law enforcement officials ft 1 I V" Snow Sport Safety at. ",V. Springs, police said. The gunman at the New Life Church was shot and killed by a church security DILGERDaily Herald with a friend following dangerously close behind at the Sundance Ski Resort on Friday. WASHINGTON POST " In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included future-Hous- e Speaker was given a virtual Nancy Pelosi tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk. Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans ' on Capitol HilL But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said. "The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough," said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange. Congressional leaders from both parties would later seize on waterboarding as a symbol of the worst excesses of the Bush administration's counterterrorism effort. The CIA last See WATERBOARD, A4 Keep winter sports fun with a few precautions Jeremy Duda DAILY their necks and heads. But many injuries are 'By two in the afternoon we'll have avoidable. Shelter frequently tells his patients that proa huge influx of injuries." tective gear is paramount. HERALD Now that snow is falling, many Utahns are taking their skis and snowboards out of storEric Williams age and heading up to the mountains. But as ' Sundance ski patrol mom always said, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye or breaks a wrist. The same snow that sends people to Utah's At American Fork Hospital, Dr. Dean Shel-to- n many ski resorts in droves always sends some d said he sees at least eight or nine to hospitals as well for a number of ailments. But many of the injuries that happen when injuries each weekend. With skiers, the most common injuries are in the knee. skiing, snowboarding, sledding and tubing Snowboarders have a propensity to fracture expeditions go awry are avoidable with some wrists, while sledders and tubers often hurt simple precautions. "I tell all my patients that the only people who don't wear helmets are those people who have nothing to protect. Wear a helmet," he said. Eric Williams, who works ski patrol at Sundance Resort, said snowboarders should wear wrist guards as well. Some companies sell snowboarding gloves with wrist guards inside them. But not all preventive measures are as ob-- . snow-relate- See SNOW, A3 Pressures mount to return Army tours to 12 months Robert Burns THE ASSOCIATED PRESS As security improves Iraq, pressure is building to reverse one of the most onerous decisions Defense Secretary Robert Gates made to enable President Bush's troop buildup to go forward this year: extendsoldiers from 12 ing the tours of active-dutmonths to 15 months. The extra three months is a weighty burden, both physically and psychologically, for soldiers already stressed by multiple tours, and on families coping with strains that have mounted since the war began in 2003. "We can't sustain that," Gen. George Casey, who was the top U.S. commander in Iraq before becoming the Army chief of staff at the Pentagon in April, said recently. "We have to come off that." He said a decision on cutting tour lengths could be announced in three months or four months. WASHINGTON in y INSIDE BRIEFING A3 EDITORIALS AS B1 OUR TOWNS OBITUARIES 83 SPORTS CI LIFE 4 STYLE Univision debate focuses on immigration HIGH 32 LOW 17 ' THE WASHINGTON CORAL GABLES, Fla. POST Contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, who have taken a tough stance on immigration issues affecting many were called upon Sunday night to defend their positions in front of viewers of the nation's largest Spanish-languag-e s, C6 D1 Peter Whoriskey VOLUME 85 ISSUE 132 O SCORE BOARD WEATHER Some clouds 0005 nil 6 Wl,61055 ;; II w mmmm . t.-S- lift M television network. The first Republican presidential forum to be conducted in Spanish took place at a time when opinion polls are showing Hispanic voters moving away from the party. 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