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Show \ * ) '\ }I X '} i 4 ^ i b to Page 2 \ \ Friday, Oct. 26, 2007 Celebs&People Today'slssue NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Lohan wants to patch things up with his family. "Reconciliation and redemption across the board," says Lohan, a born-again Christian. "Just all of us getting right with God." Lohan's 21year-old daughter Lindsay, star of "Mean Girls," Today is Friday, October 26, 2007. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Ashley Penrose, a sophomore majoring in dietetics from West Jordan, Utah. "Freaky Friday" and ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 797-1762 or TSC 105. Nat'lBriefs" Green River potential source of cooling water SALT LAKE CITY (AP)- A stale lawmaker who wants to build a nuclear-power plant in Utah is proposing to use the Green River as a critical source of cooling water, a newspaper reported Thursday. A contract to secure the rights to nearly 10 billion gallons of water a year identified the river, The Salt Lake Tribune said in a copyright story. "We still don't know basically where the thing is going to go," said Rep. Aaron Tilton, R-Springville. He is trying to develop a power plant as chief executive of Transition Power Development LLC. It would have two units. "One unit doesn't give you the scale of economy to give the best competitive advantages," Tilton said. Transition Power wants to find a site, acquire property rights and conduct studies necessary to get preliminary approvals from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said Reed Searle, a partner in the company. Green River Mayor Ed Bentley said he'd welcome a power plant in his community, which is on the Grand County-Emery County line, 70 miles west of Colorado. "Anything that would provide good-paying jobs would be excellent for our community," he said. Transition Power has a contract with the Kane County Water Conservancy District. It still would need approval from the Utah Division of Water Rights. Utah teacher accused of having sex with student HURRICANE, Utah (AP) - A 29-yearold Hurricane High School teacher was arrested on allegations of having sex with a student. "Under Utah law, a juvenile student is incapable of consenting to sexual relations with a teacher," the Hurricane Police Department said in a statement Wednesday. "Under the law, sexual intercourse without legal consent constitutes rape." The female teacher, who taught social science, was placed on leave by the Washington County School District. She has not been charged. The student in the case is a boy. I N THIS PHOTO SUPPLIED BY N A S A , smoke from the Califronia wildfires drifts over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. AP photo Despite calming winds fire fight far from over SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Santa Ana winds that helped fires explode across Southern California were dying down Thursday, but the fight was far from over: Despite a massive aerial assault, several blazes remained far from containment as flames drew perilously close to thousands of homes. Some of the hundreds of thousands of evacuees were being allowed back into their neighborhoods, and shelters were emptying. Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, which sheltered more than 10,000 people at the height of the evacuations, had just 2,500 people left Thursday morning. Crews found two burned bodies in a gutted house north of San Diego, authorities said Thursday, raising the number of deaths directly caused by the fire to three. The San Diego medical examiner's office listed seven other deaths as connected to the blazes because all who died were evacuees. More than 482,000 acres — about 753 square miles — were burned in a broad arc from Ventura County north of Los Angeles east to the San Bernardino National Forest and south to the U.S.-Mexico border. In San Diego County, which received the worst of the fires, crews cut fire lines around the major blazes, but none of the four fires was more than 40 percent contained and more than 8,500 homes remained threatened. To the northeast, in the San Bernardino County mountain resort of Lake Arrowhead, fire officials said 16,000 homes were in the path of two wildfires that had destroyed more than 300 homes. The fires remained out of control, but were being bombarded by aerial ankers and helicopters that dumped more than 30 loads of water. In Orange County, firefighters lost ground overnight on a nearly 23,000acre fire. President Bush, who has declared a major disaster in a seven-county region, took an aerial tour of the burn areas with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "It's a sad situation out there in Southern California," Bush said outside the White House before leaving for California. "I fully understand that the people have got a lot of anguish in their hearts. They just need to know a lot of folks care about them." So far, at least 15 fires have destroyed about 1,500 homes in Southern California since late Saturday. The hot, dry Santa Ana winds that have whipped the blazes into a destructive, indiscriminate fury since the weekend were expected to all but disappear. "That will certainly aid in firefighting efforts," National Weather Service meteorologist Jamie Meier said. Officials continued to lift evacuation orders, the latest in Escondido, which was particularly hard hit. Despite the improving news, nearly 18,000 customers in the San Diego area remained without power Thursday. A San Diego Gas & Electric Co. helicopter attempting to restore power crashed Thursday morning, but all four people aboard escaped injury. The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known. Medical examiners were trying to establish the identities of the man and woman whose bodies were found near Poway, north of San Diego, said Sheriffs Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell. The bodies were found in a cinderblock, garage-sized building behind a home that sits alone atop a hill overlooking the San Diego Wild Speak Up "It's a sad situation out there in Southern California, I fully understand that the people have a lot of anguish in their hearts. They just need to know a lot of folks care about them. " -President Bush Animal Park. The pair are believed to be related, officials said. Neighbors said they last saw them around midnight Monday when they told the two to evacuate, according to Caldwell. Flames also claimed the life of a 52year-old man in Tecate. Economic losses total at least $1 billion in San Diego County alone, and include a third of the state's avocado crop. The losses are half as high as those in Southern California's 2003 fires, but are certain to rise. The more hopeful news on the fire lines came a day after residents in some hard-hit San Diego County neighborhoods were allowed back to their streets, many lined with the wreckage of melted cars. Running Springs resident Ricky Garcia returned to his house in the San Bernardino Mountains on Wednesday, panicked that his street had been wiped out and his cats, Jeff and Viper, were lost. LOHAN other films, has said that her father's behavior and her parents' divorce have caused her to act out. Michael and estranged wife Dina Lohan settled their long-simmering divorce in August, months after he left a New York state prison where he served almost two years for drunken driving and other charges. He reunited with Lindsay in September after a 3-year estrangement. She had entered a drug and alcohol treatment center the previous month after reaching a plea deal on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges. Lohan's visit to the Cirque Lodge in Utah was her third trip to rehab since January, a frenetic year in which she wrecked a Mercedes-Benz, released the box-office flop "I Know Who Killed Me" and was arrested more than once. She left the center earlier this month. Does Lohan blame himself for Lindsay's troubles? "Absolutely. How can I not? I mean, we lead by example," Lohan said in an interview Wednesday with AP Television News. He entered a Christian-based drug and rehabilitation center in West Babylon, N.Y., after he was released from prison in March. Lohan had repeatedly said Lindsay needed the same kind of treatment. "I made a commitment when I was in there to God and to myself that, when I got out, I was going to do God's work, and I was going to share with other people what I've been through and how God changed my life," Lohan said. 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