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Show MONDAY, MARCH STATE Pioneer Peak. None of the PARALYMPIC CLOSING CEREMONIES END SIX WEEKS OF OLYMPICS: The paralympic flame was extinguished Saturday evening after nine thrilling days of competition, Singer Patti Labelle performs. UNIVERSITY JOURNAL 18, 2002 during which the U.S. team collected 43 medals. The 90-minute closing ceremonies took place at the Olympic Medals Plaza. The ceremony included a 35-minute show by Patti Labelle, during which athletes joined on stage, singing. Phil Craven, the newly elected head of the International Paralympic Committee, pronounced the games the best yet, and the night ended with fireworks. MAN PULLED OVER, CHARGED WITH MURDER: Patrick Daniel, 31, has been charged with two counts of murder and is being held in the Sevier County Jail. A Utah Highway Patrol trooper pulled Daniel over Thursday on westbound Interstate 70, about 15 miles south of Richfield and found a woman’s head and arm inside a cooler on the seat, and the rest of her corpse and a man’s body stuffed into the trunk. Both victims lived in Michigan, and have been identified, but their names have not been released. Investigators are trying to find connections between Daniel and the victims and are still looking for a motive. AVALANCHE CLAIMS TWO LIVES: One of the largest avalanches Brighton Ski Resort has seen took the lives of two men Saturday. The 18-year-old Nevada man and 19-year-old Salt Lake County man were part of a group of 12 who ventured out of boundaries at the Big Cottonwood Canyon resort into the back country near group was properly equipped for a trip into the high mountains, where avalanche danger was severe. The wall of snow—800 vertical feet—came thundering down just after 12:30 p.m. and left an 8-foot gash at the fracture line where the slide originated. NATION soldiers wounded in the fighting of Operation Anaconda were awarded Purple Hearts Saturday. The Purple Heart is X Houston mother guilty of capital murder in the bathtub drowning of her children took only 40 minutes to decide her fate. Russell Yates, her husband, accused the court system of victimizing his wife after the medical comm- EIGHT WOUNDED IN FIGHTING AWARDED PURPLE HEART: Eight h FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS awarded Soldiers awarded (o Purple Hearts for service role in memAfghanistan. bers wounded or killed in battle. The men honored Saturday were wounded on March 2 during a fierce fight with Taliban and al Qaeda forces, said Maj. Gen. Frank L. Hagenbeck, commander of the coalition joint task force in Afghanistan. SIX TEENAGERS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT: A minivan crossed an Interstate 71 median in Ohio and crashed into a tractor-trailer, killing six teenagers Friday evening. The minivan was traveling north on Interstate 71 when the driver lost control of the vehicle, spun and continued backward into oncoming traffic when it was struck by the tractor-trailer. All six of the victims were 19 years old and were pronounced dead at the scene. Traffic was blocked in the southbound lanes for neatly five hours Friday night. YATES GETS LIFE IN PRISON: Andrea Yates was sentenced to life in prison for drowning her children after a Texas jury spent less than an hour deliberating. She won’t be eligible for parole for 40 years. The same eight women and four men who found the unity had mistreated Andrea ates. her by not recognizing how sick she was and not giving her the right treatment. Yates, 37, was convicted earlier this week on two counts of capital murder for drowning 6-month-old daughter, Mary, her sons Noah, 7 and John, 5. The charges didn't cover the deaths of Paul, 3, and Luke, 2 MOBILE MEMORIAL BEGINS CROSSCOUNTRY TREK: Three retired Port Authority police officers began a crosscountry trek in a recreational vehicle Friday honoring their fallen comrades and sharing the memory and experience . The traveling memorial for Sept.11. of the World Trade Center attacks with their fellow Americans. Retired Lts. Gene Smith, Chester Weekes and Tony Zeoli will display an exhibit called the World Trade Center Traveling Memorial, which includes a pictorial display and artifacts from the World Trade Center, such as parts of the planes that slammed into the towers. So many towns across the country have asked for the exhibit that it will likely run through October. “We're trying to bring the World Trade Center throughout the country to people who haven't had the The GOVERNOR’S HONORS ACADEMY PAGE 5 WORLD chance to come here,” Weekes said. POLICE OFFICER CONVICTED OF RAPE: A suspended police officer was convicted Thursday of raping a woman after responding to a call at her apartment. Christopher Scaggs, 29, who served as a police officer in the Philadelphia suburb of Glenolden, faces five to 20 years in prison. The woman testified that Scaggs repeatedly asked whether she was alone when he entered her home after answering a domestic dispute call in June 2000. He then began to compliment her and suddenly demanded sex, she testified. Scaggs denied having sex with the woman. But in tapes played for jurors, Scaggs was heard apologizing to the woman and saying, “I did something I probably shouldn’t have done.” 125-CAR PILEUP CLAIMS LIVES OF FOUR: As fog cut visibility to less than a car length, about 125 vehicles, including 20 tractor-trailers, smashed into each other Thursday morning on Interstate 75 south of Chattanooga, Tenn., killing at least four people, injuring some 39 and backing up traffic for miles in each direction. The chain-reaction crash began when a tractortrailer heading north toward Chattanooga drove into a wall of fog and slammed into the back of another tractortrailer. One of those trucks crossed the median into the southbound lanes, spreading the wreckage across all lanes of the main connection between Chattanooga and Atlanta. OREGON FAMILY OF SIX FOUND DEAD: An Oregon family of six was discovered dead Thursday night after authorities were notified by local residents that none of the family had been seen recently. The sheriff’s office said that the evidence indicated that Robert Artie Bryant, 37, shot his wife and four children, aged nine to 15, to death before turning the gun on himself. small reservoir in central Cuba Thursday, killing 16 GRENADE GOES OFF IN CHURCH, KILLS FIVE: A igrenade attack Sunday at a church in Islamabad, Pakistan, claimed the lives of at least five people, including an American woman and her 17-year-old daughter and some 40 people were injured. At least 60 people were inside the church for morning services when police believe up to six hand grenades were thrown into the building. Two exploded, according to police and witnesses. SATELLITES LAUNCHED TO MAP EARTH’S GRAVITY: NASA and the German Space Agency successfully launched two satellites into orbit on a fiveyear mission to study Earth’s gravity field. The twin spacecraft of the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment, or Grace, blasted off early Sunday. Academy, please feel free to contact the Academy Director, Jared Wilcken at 865-8190 or wilcken@suu.edu. COLUMBIAN ARCHBISHOP MURDERED: Archbishop Isaias Duarte Cancino, 63, was shot and killed Saturday after he left a church in Cali, about 185 miles from the capital Bogota, Colombia. Duarte, who was known for his outspoken criticism of Colombia’s rebels, was shot SPORTS The satellites will communicate using microwave signals. TWO BIG UPSETS IN NCAA TOURNAMENT: Grace will map variations in the Earth’s gravity field as it changes over time. The twin satellites will fly together about 137 miles apart, circling the Earth 16 times a day. Subtle variations in Earth's gravity field will cause tiny shifts in the distance between the two as they orbit. The satellites’ measurements of the distance between the two will be combined with data from the Global Positioning System, allowing scientists on the ground to assemble a composite map of the gravity field. The 10th-seeded Kent State Golden Flashes won over No. 2 seed Alabama 71-58 Saturday during the second round of the South Regional. By winning, Kent State extended the nation’s longest winning streak to 20. Kent State (29-5) advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time with the Flashes’ third tournament upset in two CUBAN AIRPLANE CRASH KILLS 16: A years, The Golden Flashes beat No. 7 seed Oklahoma State in the first round. On Sunday afternoon, the 11thseeded Salukis of Southern Illinois upset No. 3 seed Georgia, 77-75 in the Eastern Regional. The win marks the first time since 1977 that Southern Illinois has made it Cuban plane crashed into a to the Sweet 16. GAI Tension Setting Exclusively at Castro & Co. $600 stipend and upper If you have any questions regarding the phenomenon similar to “a small tornado” or “whitlpool” of wind appeared to have triggered the crash. Part of the left wing had broken off 35 minutes into the flight from the southern town of Cienfuegos to an archipelago off Cuba’s northern coast. Wind conditions were the probable cause of the crash based on accounts by 21 eyewitnesses. in a poor district in Cali. He was dead on arrival at Carlos Holmes Trujillo Hospital in Cali, hospital director Ricardo Vanegas said. The archbishop was well-known for being a hatsh critic of the region’s guerrilla groups. Counselor Applications for the upcoming Governor’s Honors Academy are currently being accepted in the School Relations Office. The academy runs from July 10-20", 2002. A selected. The deadline for the application is March 20, 2002. Institute, said a weather by two men on motorcycles AT SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY division college credit is available to the counselors people, including tourists from Canada, Britain and Germany. Rogelio Acevedo, head of Cuba’s Civil Aviation Castro & Co. Jewelers c© Gemologists L ! 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