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Show 2 Monday, March 15, 2010 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com All stories and photos from The Associated Press 15 Monday 3 with ties to US consulate rey in 2008. U.S. State Department spokesman Fred Lash said the three slain people had attended the same social event before the attacks Saturday. But police said they had no information on a possible motive or whether the attacks were related. Civilians have increasingly gotten caught in the middle of drug gang violence that has made Ciudad Juarez one of the deadliest cities in the world, with more than 2,500 people killed last year alone. At least II people were killed in Ciudad Juarez during the weekend. The three died during a particularly bloody weekend in Mexico, with nearly 5o people killed in apparent gang violence. Nine people were killed in a gang shootout early Sunday in the Pacific resort city of Acapul- 54°/28° • Social Justice Series: Eating Disorders in Sports: Challenges Beneath the Surface: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ College of Social Work •Our Town: 7:30 p.m. @ Pioneer Theatre • Mothers of a Nation Photo Exhibit: All day @ Union Art Gallery • Marking Time: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. @ Marriott Library killed in Mexican border city CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico—A U.S. consulate employee and her husband were shot to death as they drove in this drug-plagued Mexican city with their baby in the back seat, minutes after gunmen killed the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two children, officials said Sunday. President Barack Obama expressed outrage over the killings, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon said he was indignant and promised a swift investigation. Several U.S. citizens have been killed in Mexico's drug war, most of them people with family ties to Mexico. It is very rare for American government employees to be targeted, though assailants hurled grenades at the U.S. consulate in the northern city of Monter- Sunny 16 Tuesday Sunny 57°/38° • 2010 Organic Lecture Series: Reinventing the Automobile: 7:30 p.m. @ Warnock Engineering Building • Boguslaysky Scholarship Concert: 7:30 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall • India: Its People, Dignity, and Challenges: All day @ Marriott Library Weather from the department of atmospheric sciences: http://forecastutah.edu DAILY UTAH Suspect in poker heist released BERLIN Berlin police said Saturday they had released a man previously suspected of taking part in the storming last weekend of a poker tournament in which armed robbers made off with $328,000 in jackpot money. A spokeswoman for Berlin police said the suspect had been set free because of a lack of evidence. The suspect, who was detained late Friday, denied throughout several hours of questioning having taken part in the heist at the Grand Hyatt hotel in the capital. CHRONICLE — Soldiers stand guard at a crime scene where the crashed car of a U.S. consulate employee sits in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday. The consulate employee and her husband were shot to death Saturday in their car, where their baby was found unharmed in the back seat, near the Santa Fe International bridge linking Ciudad Juarez with El Paso, Texas. co, one of Mexico's spring break attractions. The State Department authorized U.S. government employees at Ciudad Juarez and five other U.S. consulates in northern Mexico to send their family members out of the area because of concerns about rising drug violence. The cities are Tijuana, Nogales, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros. Advertising 801-581-7041 News 801-581-NEWS Fax 801-581-FAXX EDITOR IN CHIEF: Rachel Hanson r.hanson@chronicle.utah.edu MANAGING EDITOR: Sara Copeland s.copeland@chronicle.utah.edu PRODUCTION MANAGER: Alyssa Whitney a.whitney@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. PRODUCTION MANAGER: Rebecca Isbell NEWS EDITOR: Michael McFall m.mcfall@chronicle.utah.edu Garn resigns after hot tub confession Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature on Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager. Republican Rep. Kevin Garn's Thursday night confession came in a speech before House colleagues and stunned the conservative state. On Saturday, he apologized in an email to House Speaker David Clark for becoming a distraction. "After discussing this matter with my family, I have decided that it is in the best interests of them, my colleagues and the people of Utah," he wrote. Garn, 55, acknowledged the indiscretion with the legal minor immediately after the Legislature adjourned for the session. "Although we did not have any sexual contact, it was still clearly inappropriate—and it was my fault," he said from the House floor Thursday night. Lawmakers responded with a standing ovation for his honesty and embraced him—a move some found offensive given the nature of what Garn was saying. In hindsight, the ovation might not have been the best move, but it shouldn't be misconstrued to indicate support for unethical behavior, Clark said Saturday. Garn told colleagues he paid the woman, Cheryl Maher, after she began contacting reporters about the incident during his unsuccessful bid for a congressional seat in 2002. Democrats look to resurrect college aid plan WASHINGTON—Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage. The student loan measure would be the biggest change in college assistance programs since Congress created them in the 196os. The bill would end federal subsidies to private lenders and have the government originate all loans to needy students. Democrats in the House and Senate were working to incorporate the legislation, which passed the House last September but got bogged down in the Senate, into a single, expedited budget bill that could pass in the Senate with a simple majority. After a presidency marked by stalemate, the strategy would give President Barack Obama the best opportunity to achieve simultaneous victories on two of his top priorities in a single, swift act of Congress. Consolidating the college aid package with health care would create a double sweetener for Democrats. It would make it easier to pass the college aid plan in the Senate, where it seemed unable to muster 6o votes to overcome procedural hurdles. And it would give House Democrats a popular incentive to ease their anxieties over voting for health care changes. The health care bill "is a controversial, difficult bill for a lot of people," said Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J. "The more things that you can go home and say were in the bill that are sort of universally popular, yeah, it helps." Sen. Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said lawmakers had an opportunity for a "twin victory" by joining the student loan measure to the health care package. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the budget package, known as a "reconciliation bill," would be a means to pass the student aid plan. "This is an important reform for the president," he said. To ease the way for the far-reaching health care legislation, Democrats have had to resort to a fast-track process. The House would pass an already approved Senate version of the bill, then use a separate measure to make changes more to their liking. Utah higher education officials relieved over budget Utah higher education officials say students will feel some pain under a budget approved by state lawmakers, but the cuts could have been much deeper. Utah's nine colleges and universities will face at least 24,00o more students this fall than two years ago, but with nearly sioo million less under the budget approved this past week. The Legislature trimmed spending for the system by 13 percent. Legislative leaders had proposed a 29 percent base reduction. The cutback was further softened by the unexpected diversion of millions to fund the college-readiness scholarship known as New Century and the construction of major build- N I. ings on Utah's three fastest growing campuses. "We were thrilled with it," Commissioner of Higher Education Bill Sederburg told The Salt Lake Tribune. "We think we were huge victors." But he said students will feel some pain as he expects about woo course sections will be cut and tuition will rise by io percent. The cuts also are expected to cost about 200 campus jobs. "The schools will continue to trim faculty and staff, but it's balanced somewhat by the tuition we'll be charging and the enrollment increases and some efficiencies," Sederburg said. During the session, Sederburg had warned that huge cuts would result in "soft" enrollment caps at Salt Lake Community College and Utah Valley University, forcing an estimated 15,000 students to leave school. Officials at those two schools and Dixie State College were elated Thursday when lawmakers diverted road money to fund $110 million in much-needed campus projects. Lawmakers also threw a $3.85 million lifeline to the New Century and Regents' scholarships, programs that give high school students incentives to prepare for college. Their increasing popularity has drained their meager budgets, prompting regents to announce reductions in the amount of awards. Both scholarships must be used at Utah universities. EWS ODDITIES WELL-ENDOWED SPOKANE, Wash.—A fraud bust, indeed: Spokane County sheriff's deputies said a woman was hiding nearly $26,000 in her bra when she was booked into jail for investigation of theft. Lukeisha A. Harris was one of three Seattle-area residents arrested Friday as part of an alleged fraud ring. Deputies said they used phony Oregon driver's licenses and counterfeit credit cards to obtain cash advances from Spokane banks. Sheriff's spokesman Dave Reagan said the three were arrested after a worker at one bank reported that they tried to obtain money using a stolen credit card. The investigators followed the ring to two other banks before making the bust. Reagan said that during a search at the Spokane County Jail, guards found that the 24-year-old had the cash hidden in her bra, along with bank receipts. DEAD MAN ROLLING NEW YORK—A police tow truck removed a minivan parked outside a New York City funeral home, giving its dearly departed passenger an unexpected side trip. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said there was "nothing to indicate it was more than just an illegally parked car." Redden's Funeral Home director Paul DeNigris said a windshield placard had fallen flat. The van's tinted windows helped obscure the white cardboard box that held the remains. DeNigris said he was "a wreck" after discovering the van missing Monday in Manhattan. He rushed to the tow pound, where he discreetly explained the circumstances and got the van back. He also got the body to an airport in time for a scheduled flight to Miami. He plans to fight the $115 parking ticket. ASST. NEWS EDITOR: Trent Lowe OPINION EDITOR: Craig Blake people die in NJ home fire a day after moving in FORT LEE, N.J.—Two people who'd moved into a northern New Jersey town house a day earlier have died in a fire that started in their kitchen and spread upstairs. Police say 52-year-old Eliot C. Nisenbaum and 55-year-old Ronald Sandberg were found Saturday night in the second-floor master bedroom of their home in Fort Lee. Police Chief Thomas Ripoli said the fire was an accident. 2 c.blake@chronicle.utah.edu SPORTS EDITOR: Paige Fieldsted p fieldsted@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. SPORTS EDITOR: Bryan Chouinard ARTS EDITOR: Joseph Peterson j.peterson@chronicle.utah.edu PHOTO EDITOR: Tyler Cobb t.cobb@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. PHOTO EDITOR: Mike Mangum ONLINE EDITOR: Richard Payson r.payson@chronicle.utah.edu PAGE DESIGNER: Tyler Pratt COPY EDITORS: Joseph Peterson, Jessica Blake, Lindsay Beardall PROOFREADER: Beverly Jackson ADVISER: Jim Fisher GENERAL MANAGER:Jake Sorensen Utah State earns at-large berth, faces Texas A&M LOGAN Utah State's loss in the Western Athletic Conference tournament championship game didn't keep the Aggies out of the NCAA Tournament. Utah State got an at-large berth and is the No. 12 seed in the South region. The Aggies (27-7) will play Texas A&M (23-9) on Friday in Spokane, Wash. Utah State won the WAC regular-season title but lost to New Mexico State in the conference tournament title game. j.sorensen@chronicle.utah.edu DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING: Tom Hurtado t.hurtado@chronicle.utah.edu — Correc ions ADV. 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