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2 Monday, February 1, 2010 1 BULLETIN Monday Partly cloudy www.dailyutahchronicle.com 3 Wednesday 2 Tuesday 39/24 Chance of snow 36/25 Partly cloudy • Free Monday at Utah Museum of Natural History: 9:30 a.m. to • Science Movie Night: Jurassic Park: 6:30 p.m. @ Salt Lake City 8 p.m. @ UMNH Public Library • Phun With Physics at UMNH: All day @ UMNH • Dolowitz Lecture Film Screening-Sophie Scholl: The Final Days: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Salt Lake City Public Library •Toastmaster's Key Club: 11 a.m. to noon @ Sill Center • Dolowitz Lecture-Human Rights and Resistance in Nazi Germany: 5:30 p.m. @ Tanner Humanities Building 39/25 • Winter Celebration and Women in Medicine Career Mixer: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ Alumni House •Wind Ensemble: 7:30 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall • LGBTQ Film Series: 4 p.m. @ Union • Dramatis Personae: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. @ Marriott Library Weather from the department of atmospheric sciences: http://forecastutah.edu All stories and photos from The Associated Press 13 students killed during party in Mexico border ci MEXICO CITY—Armed men stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses thought was an attack prompted by false information. The deaths in Ciudad Juarez were part of a total of 24 people killed across Mexico since Saturday in violence caused by ongoing turf battles between powerful drug cartels. About two dozen teens and young adults were hospitalized following the late Saturday assault in Ciudad Juarez, one of the deadliest cities in the world located across the border from El Paso, Texas. Grieving witnesses and family members told The Associated Press on Sunday they thought the victims, mostly residents of the housing complex where the attack occurred, had no ties to drug traffickers. "It must have been a huge mistake," said Martha Lujan, who lives at the housing complex. The young adults had gathered to watch a boxing match, Lujan said, when two trucks pulled up loaded with armed men who opened fire. Ten people were killed at the scene and three others died at local hospitals, said Chihuahua State Attorney Patricia Gonzales. The bodies of the victims, whose ages ranged from 15 to 20, lay scattered around the house where the attack happened. A witness said he was just outside when the gunfire broke out. Hector, who only gave his first name because he feared retaliation, said the party was an innocuous gathering of friends who must have been Sorority suspends Rutgers chapter in hazing probe NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. National leaders of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority have suspended its Rutgers University chapter amid a probe of hazing — allegations in which six members have been criminally charged. The North Carolina-based sorority took the action this week after the six wornen were charged with aggravated hazing based on allegations they paddled prospective pledges and denied them food. Rutgers has also suspended the sorority. L — Soldiers stand inside a bloodstained room after a group of gunmen opened fire a day earlier on a gathering of students, killing at least 13 and injuring dozens in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday. targeted incorrectly. "I think there was some confusion," he said. "We're seeking justice." Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million people, is home to several drug cartel bosses who are battling for turf as thousands of troops and federal police try to stop them. More than 2,250 people were killed there last year alone. On Sunday morning in the border town of Nogales, just south of Arizona, state police found three bodies burned inside an abandoned vehicle in what appeared to be an execution, officials said. Also early Sunday, three women and two men, all identified as Mexican citizens, were murdered while driving in their van with California license plates near the western the kids have living parents, who were apparently told the children were going on a holiday from the post-quake misery. The church group's own mission statement said it planned to spend only hours in the devastated capital, quickly identifying children without immediate families and busing them to a rented hotel in the Dominican Republic without bothering to get permission from the Haitian government. Whatever their intentions, other child-welfare organizations in Haiti said the plan was foolish at best. "The instinct to swoop in and rescue children may be a natural impulse but it cannot be the solution for the tens of thousands of children left vulnerable by the Haiti earthquake," said Deb Barry, a protection expert at Save the Children, which wants a moratorium on new adoptions. "The possibility of a child being scooped up and mistakenly labeled an orphan in the chaotic aftermath of the disaster is incredibly high." The church members, mostly from Idaho, said they were only trying to rescue abandoned and traumatized children. "In this chaos the government is in right now, we were just trying to do the right thing," the group's spokeswoman, Laura Silsby, told the AP from inside Haiti's judicial police headquarters, where she and Corrections and Clarifications DAILY others were being held until a Monday hearing. Officials said they lacked the proper documents for the children, whose names were written on pink tape on their shirts. The children, ages 2 months to 12 years old, were taken to an orphanage run by Austrian-based SOS Children's Villages, where spokesman George Willeit said they arrived "very hungry, very thirsty, some dehydrated." "One (8-year-old) girl was crying, and saying, 'I am not an orphan. I still have my parents,' " Willeit said. "And she thought she was going on a summer camp or a boarding school or something like that." The orphanage was working Sunday to reunite the children with their families, joining a concerted effort by the Haitian government, the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other NGOs. In Idaho, the Rev. Clint Henry denied that his Central Valley Baptist Church had anything to do with child trafficking and said he didn't believe reports that some of the children had parents. He urged his tearful congregation to pray to God to "help them as they seek to resist the accusations of Satan and the lies that he would want them to believe and the fears that he would want to plant into their heart." Police: Former mother-in-law killed Utah teacher A 70-year-old woman shot and killed her former daughter-in-law in the parking lot of the preschool where the young teacher worked, Utah police said Saturday. Mary Nance Hanson is accused of firing multiple shots into the car of Tetyana Nikitina, 34, as she prepared to leave Friday from the Salt Lake Community Action Program Head Start school. Police said the suspect called 911 and was waiting at the scene when officers arrived. When asked why she had fired the shots, she told a 911 dispatcher, "I don't know, and that's all I'm going to say." Nikitina, a single mother of two, was behind the steering wheel when officers arrived. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. According to court records obtained by the Deseret News, Nikitina filed for divorce from Poll: Most Utahns back anti-bias laws for gays Sixty-seven percent of Utahns favor anti-discrimination protections for gays and lesbians, according to a statewide poll. The Salt Lake Tribune poll found support for such protections climbed it percentage points across the state from a year ago, when pollsters asked the same question. The poll also showed that 66 percent of those surveyed support expanding Salt Lake City's anti-discrimination ordinances statewide. Mexican city of Navolato. The bodies of the five victims, including a r6-year-old girl, were found riddled with bullets, said Martin Gastelum, attorney general for The policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is to correct any error made as soon the state of Sinaloa, where Navolato as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please is located. contact the editor at 801-581-8317. Violence also rocked the oceanside Mexican community of Lazaro Cardenas overnight. 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Americans deny child trafficking in Haiti P 0 RT-AU-P RINC E, Haiti—Ten U.S. Baptists detained trying to take 33 children out of earthquakeshattered Haiti without government permission say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children. But their "Orphan Rescue Mission" is striking nerves in a country that has long suffered from child trafficking and foreign interventions, and where much of the aid is delivered in ways that challenge Haiti's own rich religious traditions. Prime Minister Max Bellerive on Sunday told The Associated Press that the group was arrested and is under judicial investigation "because it is illegal trafficking of children, and we won't accept that." The Americans are the first people to be arrested on such suspicions since the Jan. 12 quake. The government and established child-welfare agencies are trying to slow Haitian adoptions amid fears that parentless or lost children are more vulnerable than ever to being seized and sold. Without proper documents and concerted efforts to track down their parents, they could be forever separated from family members able and willing to care for them. Bellerive's personal authorization is now required for the departure of any child. The orphanage where the children were later taken said some of Pakistan investigates report Taliban chief is dead ISLAMABAD The Pakistani government was investigating reports Sunday that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike launched in mid-January after he helped orchestrate a deadly bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan. The U.S. unleashed more than a dozen drone strikes in the month following the Dec. 3o suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, and Mehud's death would be further proof of the ability of the unmanned aircraft to target Taliban and al-Qaida leaders holed up in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas. Dale Jankowski in February 2005. Police say they believe Jankowski is Hanson's son. Records show that twice after the divorce, in August 2005 and in January 2006, Nikitina filed for protective orders against Jankowski, claiming cohabitant abuse. Unified Police Lt. Don Hutson told the Deseret News they can't identify a specific event that triggered the shooting. He said there were ongoing custody battles, "but that's nothing new." Hanson, a concealed weapons permit holder, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on suspicion of murder. She lives in Taylorsville, as did Nikitina. 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