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ID V-z- &Jv Standarc xammer httpwww standard net a $ Spurs end Jazz streak Tongues are gets home Thursday’s forecast: High 50 Low 32 Chance of showers 1 50 cents WtUrtP Jtn flew SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 COLORADO SCHOOL MASSACRE: killed including the two student gunmen 23 taken to hospitals 1 6 still hospitalized today Killers died in suicide mission Worried about bombs and booby traps specially trained officers painstakingly checked thousands of lockers and castoff backpacks today in the suburban Denver high school It is the deadliest US school rampage on record Close to 30 explosive devices were found More coverage45A 15 The teen killers were Columbine High School juniors in Littleton Colo Eric Hams Dylan Klebold DAY OF TERROR: r Columbine High School students react Tuesday to the horror after two classmates opened fire '' GEORGE KOCHANIEC Denver Rocky Mountain News A MO OKIE MM©WS WHY bloodbath that is difficult to stop A Local schools seek ways to avert tragedy By TUSTIN AMPLE Davis Bureau FARMINGTON - Davis School Board members and colleagues gasped in shock Tuesday night as Superintendent Darrell White announced to them the extent of the student killings at Columbine High School in Littleton Colo Fifteen students and faculty members were dead after a shooting rampage motivated perhaps by hatred maybe by revenge The feelings of those at the meeting were reminiscent of Feb 8 1998 when a student at Syracuse Junior High School held students hostage with a gun in the school cafeteria Although the student fired the weapon the boy was tackled by a police officer and no one was in- jured “We’re prepared for tornadoes we’re prepared for floods Educators spent time before the school board meeting expressing their sorrow and fear of copycat crimes hazardous material spills on the in- “It's very upsetting to me that that is where we are at as a society” terstate Board Vice President Cheryl Phipps said Nancy Mickelson a teacher at Bountiful’s Holbrook Elementary School said media reports of the killings caused her to reflect upon the similarities of the suburb and Utah neighborhoods “It's an affluent area” she said “That’s why they didn’t have more security Here we have that same feeling - a secure place I hate to think that we need more security but I don’t know are we living m the dark ages?” Today more than a year after the Syracuse hostage incident principal James Schmidt said he didn't expected any repercussions today at his school See EDITORIAL: time-ou- REACT4A A call t GEORGE KOCHANlEGDenver Rocky Mountain News students embrace Tuesday after the attack at Columbine High School m See WHY75A By MCUSA ANN WILSON Scwum Examiner stall - Eventually nearly the current population of this Box Elder County discity could be employed at a new Wal-Matribution center to be built just west of town The building itself will be 860000 square feet located on 20 acres The center will distribute dry refrigerated and frozen foods to superstores m the Rocky Mountain region including Arizona Colorado Idaho Nevada Wyoming and of course Utah A project this massive makes Connne Mayor DaVon Day a little nervous “It will be a big economic shock for such a small community” he said Day along with county commissioners and CORINNE By MDJSA ANN WILSON stall LOGAN - A media circus it wasn't Around 300 press representatives and others were expected to attend today's start of the John Daniel Kingston poly gamy related trial But they didn't all show this morning Though the Daily Telegraph London the Guardian London and the British Broadcasting Corporation all had press passes only representatives from three local TV' stations and four state newspapers were on hand for the start of the tnal m I irst District Court It wasn’t quite what Steve Bower expected See TRIAL1 2A two-thir- rt -- POOR COPY the Denver suburb of Littleton Corinne braces for Wal-Ma- rt Kingston trial gets under way without circus r prepare for” said Bill Slade police chief in Pearl Miss where on 1997 Oct Luke Woodham shot and and her best friend on the killed his first anniversary of their breakup Copycat incidents are a big fear for educators “You never know if you might have a kid in your own student body whose having these kinds of thoughts” said Aurora Colorado's Rangeview High School Principal Marc Stine Aurora Public Schools has a crisis response plan “but I think it needs updating” said distnet spokeswoman Debbie Lynch Short of installing metal detectors and searching students at the door the reality is that very little can be done to prevent school violence experts say After Michael Cameal walked into Heath High School in Paducah Ky and opened fired on a group of students killing three in 1997 officials at the McCracken School District in Padu- 1 SURVIVORS: Two Standard-Examine- but something like this comes up and it’s difficult to deal with or fora day to discuss school violence1 0A national DICK FOSTER DENVER - It can’t happen here And then it does Springfield Ore Fayetteville Tenn Edinboro Pa Jonesboro Ark West Paducah Ky And now Littleton Kids killing kids At school A place to learn becomes a place to die Experts say school violence is on the rise But when you ask why the answers are almost as varied as the places “No one knows who ‘those kids’ the kinds of kids who do this are” said Tim Schlenvogt president of Colorado Secondary School Principals Suspects in Tuesday's slaughter apparently were members of a group of students who called themselves the “Trench Coat Mafia” But the motive for the bloodbath still isn’t clear and educators fear it won't be the last of its kind Police chiefs and sheriffs in four towns struck by school violence said they too had absolutely no preparation or warning of what exploded in their midst By JaNAE FRANCIS Standard-Examin- and Scnpps Howard News Service AUGUST MILLER Standard-jtarnre- r Members of the media interview Tapestry of Potygamy members Rowenna Dickson and Carmen Thompson m Logan this morning AT CACHE C0UVTY COURTHOUSE: See WAL-MART- 1 2A Primed on recycled peper |
