Show i&jMMco A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday October 21 2003 Nation J In brief Judge orders Kobe Bryant to stand trial in rape case i L Q Political parties use technology to get to know individual voters EAGLE Cola (AP) — Kobe Bryant must stand trial on a resort worker a charge of sexually assaulting a for the a ruled clearing way celebrity trial the 'Monday judge likes of which hasn’t been seen since O J Simpson Eagle County Judge Frederick Gannett chided prosecutors for presenting “a minimal amount of evidence” but said it was enough to order the trial The Los Angeles Lakers guard could face a life sentence if convicted His next appearance in district court is set for Nov 10 Bryant has said the sex was consensual His attorneys sug- gested the woman's injuries came during sex with other men in the days before her encounter with Bryant at a posh resort in nearby Edwards The defense can appeal Gannett’s ruling but such appeals are rare legal experts said Bryant practiced with the Los Angeles Lakers at their El Segundo Calif facility on Monday and it wrapped up pbout two hours before the judge issued his ruling After Monday’s practice Bryant was asked how much anxiety he was feeling “Basketball zero anxiety Other stuff a little anxiety” he said “But now I just pretty much you know give it up I’ve pretty much done all I can Now I’ll let God carry me the rest of the way I feel comfortable with that” : Judge tells teachers to 'grow up’ ' ordered Marysville teachers back to work by Wednesday to end the longest teachers strike in state history “It is time for all the adults to grow up and start looking at their obligations to these children’’ Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Linda C Krese said peeved that four days of court- - ‘ ordered negotiations failed to yield a contract agreement ' School district Superintendent Linda Whitehead said “I’m excited the teachers and students are coming back v'-to school” rN:local of the However head the Ordered to teach: ers union said she expects teachers to -- Education ’ Association President defy the order despite the threat that Elaine Hanson listens violators would face $250 in daily while the Judge cfiscuss- - fines : “I feel es the teacher strike very firmly that we won’t go back without a contract” said Elaine Hanson president of the Marysville Education Association' teach-Marysvil- le : ' Deficit hits record $374 billion V The federal deficit soared to $3742 WASHINGTON (AP) billion in 2003 the White House said Monday a record total that more than doubled last year’s red ink and looked like-- pre- ! ! ' hide to even gloomier numbers! j Because the shortfall marked an improvemenpfrom$45r billion projection the White House made ui July Bush administration officials cited it as evidence that their attempts to fortify the weak economy were working “Today’s budget numbers reinforce the indications we have seen for some months now: that the economy is well on the path to recovery” Treasury Secretary John Snow said Democrats mocked the administration's sunny interpretation and tried to focus attention bn the numbers for the budget year just ended They noted that last year’s red ink was more than twice 2002’s $158 billion and surpassed the $290 billion record set in 1992!" ' a - ' Humor added to speed limit signs J MOUNT HOLLY N (AP) — The familiar black and white speed limit signs in some rural parts of Burlington County aren’t getting drivers to slow down They’re also not getting any laughs Officials believe new signs going up on a few roads should do Iboth The signs include messages like “Free Speeding Tickets Ahead” and “Meet Our Judge — Exceed 25 mph” Vincent Farias a Burlington County freeholder saw similar signs in Long Beach Township and thought they might work in Burlington County too “The signs are designed to attract attention by employing humor to make people more aware of speed limits” Farias said The signs are destined for places where speeding is a persistent problem The brightly colored signs are scheduled to go up next week along county roads in Shamong and Medford Lakes If they reduce speeding they might be put up elsewhere in the county Farias said ' ‘Mother’ of conservation dies at 101 CHEYENNE Wyo (AP) — Margaret “Mardy” Murie considered by many the mother of the modem conservation movement has died She was 101 Murie who was instrumental in enacting the Wilderness Act and creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge died Sunday at her ranch in Grand Teton National Park She was to be laid to rest during a private family ceremony with a public memorial planned at The Murie Center on her ranch later this year No dates were immediately announced Murie and her late husband Olaus a wildlife biologist are credited with sowing the seeds for the 1964 Wilderness Act — which banned development on millions of acres in national forests parks and other land — and creation of the wildlife refuge Murie who also helped found the Grand Teton Science School in Jackson recruited former Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas to help persuade President Eisenhower to set aside 8 million acres in Alaska as an arctic wildlife range The area was later expanded to 19 million acres and renamed the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1980 She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998 from President Clinton who called her “a pioneer of the environmental movement” -- (AP)— Voters’ ballots : “Data- - Mart” a new 158-milli- ' record database of voter informa-- tion connected to AP photo EVEREXt Wash (AP) — Telling negotiators on both sides to “grow up” a judge on Monday - WASHINGTON are still secret but technology is helping ' political parties get a pretty good idea who will vote how they’ll vote and the best way to make sure they vote — long before people actually head to the polls The Democratic and Republican parties both are collecting information about mil- lions of individual voters a key ingredient in their 2004 campaign game The close 2000 presidential election showed how important getting even a fraction more of a party’s supporters to the polls can be The Democratic National Committee has “Demzil- - as his own attorney sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad handles a rifle sight telescope as he cross examines British Army sniper expert SgL Maj Mark Spicer Airing Muhammad's trial at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach Va on Monday Acting la” which tracks and manages u suspect OCl’dl foi serve as lawyer 4 party contact with donors 'Vand activists The Republican National data-baCommittee has a called “Voter Vault” “We can tell you exactly which house on VIRGINIA BEACH Va (AP) — gas station last October He was die sevwhich street we need to get out the vote enth victim in a three-weshooting Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad because we know that the issues they are won the right to serve as his own lawyer spree that left 10 people dead in Vir- -' y concerned about are Democratic issues” Monday in a surprise ginia Maryland and Washington DC party Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo 18 request at his murder trial He broke a “And we know what to say and we know'! were arrested last Oct 24 at a highway year of stony silence by proclaiming his " what not to say” V innocence in a rambling opening state- rest stop in Maryland Prosecutors have The DNC has 306 pieces of information & said the shootings were part of a plot to ment and asking a witness: “Have you attached to every name he said ever seen me shoot anyone?” V ' - y extort $10 million from the government In addition to its value in Zy ' It was not clear why Muhammad :y Malvo was in the courtroom for about vote efforts the data the parties accumudecided to fire his lawyers who will 4 !$' two minutes Monday to allow a prosecuwho can use it to late helps ' serve as standby counsel in the first trial tion witness to identify him vV voters who identify with a party but spot Prosecutors say Malvo has made sevto come out of last year’s sniper spree haven’t yet donated to it Just last week Muhammad told the Q eral statements to police and jail guards ! It also can help parties lavish special satisfied with in which he confessed involvement in ? was that he his judge direct mail and phone calls on attorneys Muhammad’s decision to rep--' many of the attacks But Muhammad donors who have become resent himself in die death penalty case ? barely spoke to investigators and even more valuable now that the campaign means he could end up answers to offered only terse finance law has banned corporate union y! in his accusers perhaps survivors of the pretrial hearings many questions and unlimited individual donations n- Muhammad "w shootings spoke at length dining his v The Democratic Party’8 databasi6‘'“' 'yy? u Yincludes In his " Census data such as block-levopngwatement V opening statement about the nature of Muhammad said nothing ab0ut the ' truth’ saying at one point “Jesus said demographic information national con-- : ‘Ye shall know the truth’” He also said shootings except to deny involvement! sumer data which provides individual “I know what happened I know what he hopes to be found innocent “by the details such as whether a person is d didn’t happen They’re basing what they owns a home and has children voter :i grace of Allah” said about me on a theory If we monitor r “There’s three truths The truth the : files which are available from several whole truth and nothing but the truth I states and show a pepon's party identifiCa- - J (die evidence) step by step it will all show I had nothing to do with these was there one always thought just tipn and which elections he or she has crimes” he told the jury voted in and rundowns on how precincts W truth” he said “The facts should help ' Muhammad 42 is charged in the us identify what’s a lie what’s not a Voted in past elections The Republican National Committee lie’ slaying of Dean Harold Meyers a Vietnam veteran who was declined to say what kind of data Voter ' See LAWYER on A12 Vault has gunned down outside a northern Virginia Smipeir ek 3 last-minu- se te A-- - yY get-out-t- fund-raise- rs small-doll- ar - cross-examini- ng t wywy te - '1 one-wo- rd ! : el mar-lie- y - Annual mat saleA Gay men’s 20 40 OFF summit on health looks Protect Your Floors a beyond AIDS “ SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — ACHE I For so long discussing the HouMhoM Cooling Syotem Oil SanricoaTtanomisaiona- - oommarcW mats mat AntMtigu Safety mafflnq 752-445- health of gay men meant one topic: AIDS That was not the case during a summit last weekend on gay Brain State Safety Inspection 5 )aU 'Chemical Timing Mta Watarpump 3131 N Main 787-004- Satirical Prabtama State Impecfona 0 Fual Infection j men’s health issues sponsored by the Utah AIDS Foundation Planned Parenthood and members of the gay community The goal was “to expand the notion of gay men’s health beyond HIV” one of the coordinators David Ferguson said “For about 20 years gay men’s health has been equated with a person’s HIV status We’re not minimizing HIV but gay men deal with lots of issues: relationships spirituality substance abuse” he said About 160 people attended the summit up from 100 over the past two years Topics addressed by speakers included aging and HIV fitness substance abuse sex in public places and relationships Kristen Ries an infectious disease physician at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center touched on other health issues that affect homosexuals during her keynote address Gay men for example use drugs alcohol and tobacco at a higher rate than the general population and also have a higher incident of anxiety suicide and depression self-hypno- '10 i iTrUUll nr V i n rv' iriSSt v 1 |