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Show t paee 2 - - - 4 - - 4 - - 4 - - U Wednesday, March 18, 2009] - - i • - •; i American dream ends in 2 NJ. workers' brutal deaths Today'slssue Today is Friday, March 16, 2009. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is dedicated to Stella Amon, a senior majoring in public relations from Dares-salaam, Tanzania. ClarifyCorrect Reference in a March 16 article to faculty positions lost as a result of the fall 2008 budget reduction was incorrect. No full-time, tenure-track faculty were laid off. The reduction in force was absorbed mainly by employees in classified and staff positions. Nat '/Briefs Teacher pleads not guilty to sex charges FARM1NGTON. Utah (AP) - A Bountiful Junior High School teacher accused of having sex with a 14-yearold student has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and forcible sodomy, both first-degree felonies. Defense attorney Rich Gallegos entered the pleas for Valynne Asay Bowers, 39, in 2nd District Court on Monday. He says Bowers will enter discussions on a possible plea deal in the case. Fellow teacher Linda Richins Nef, 46, is charged with rape of a child and sodomy on a child, both first-degree felonies, in the case. Court documents say the boy was 13 when Nef first had contact with him and was 14 by the time Bowers became involved. Nef is due in court on March 27. Online court records did not list an attorney for her. Both women resigned from their positions at the school. 10-year-old boy wins Utah chess tournament SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A 10year-old West Jordan boy has won the 2009 Utah Game/60 Chess Championship - and he could be ranked first in the nation in his age group. Kayden Troff won $120 in prize money Saturday and has been invited to attend U.S. Chess School this summer. Troffs quick game is rated 2125, which is higher than any active tournament player in the state. His long game is rated 1933. He needs to reach 2500 to attain grandmaster status, the highest title a chess player can achieve. Damien Nash, an expert-level player and director of the tournament, says he thinks Troff will be ranked No. 1 in the nation in the rapid chess category for kids under 13. Kayden has been playing since he was 3, and practices up to seven hours daily. MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) - Alex Aguilar left his family and farm hand job in Honduras seven years ago to pursue a better life, eventually finding work cleaning stables and feeding thoroughbreds six days a week at a New Jersey horse farm. His mother worried for him. "It was a tremendous sadness for us all, but it was especially hard for her to say goodbye," Alex's brother, Jose Aguilar, said in Spanish. "It's hard for any mother, or brother to say goodbye, not knowing when, or if, you'll ever see someone again." But no one imagined that fellow Honduran immigrant workers, also in the U.S. seeking a better life, might be his biggest threat. Last month, Alex Aguilar, 29, and a co-worker, Marcial Morales-Maldonado, 48, were found hacked to death with a machete at the Sterling Chase Horse Farm in Springfield, a 118-acre thoroughbred horse breeding farm south of Trenton where they worked and lived. Two other workers, also Hondurans who shared living quarters at the farm, are charged in their deaths. Carlos Reyes faces two counts of murder, and his brother, Cesar Reyes, is accused of being a material witness. The suspects were arrested after fleeing to Houston, and are now in a Texas jail awaiting extradition to New Jersey. "We are mystified by this, all of us - here and in Honduras," Edis Morales, Maldonado's nephew, said in Spanish during an interview along with Jose Aguilar at a community center in Mount Holly. "We've talked about it for hours and hours: how could this have happened?" The victims' mutilated bodies were discovered face down in front of the living quarters the workers shared. The men were hacked with a machete used for farm work, according to police. Morales and Jose Aguilar said they knew Carlos Reyes through the small but growing community of Hondurans in New Jersey. He was known for having a short temper that Oared up over small things, they said, but they never imagined a minor spat could lead to two brutal deaths. Police say both the victims and the accused were in the U.S. illegally, and immigration officials have not said if they plan to bring charges against the farm owners who hired them. Messages left for the owners at the horse farm were not returned. Alex Aquilar, one of eight children, left school in the fourth grade to work alongside his parents in the vegetable fields of Honduras. Since coming to New Jersey, he had been the main provider for his family in the small rural village ofVarsovia, near Tegucigalpa, Honduras, his brother said. i j L Celebs&Peopte BOSTON (AP) - Don Imus told listeners Tuesday that he assumes he'll be fine in his battle with prostate cancer, He earned $300 to $350 each because that's week at Sterling Farm, where what he always he had worked for the past five thinks. years. The 68-yearJose Aguilar remembered his old radio personbrother as a laid-back, humorality bantered ous man whose scant free time with listeners was spent playing soccer, wiring at Boston radio money home, or buying clothstation WTKKIMUS ing, shoes and other basic neces- FM during his sities to send to his family. live annual St. Patrick's Day "Kiss Maldonado had a wife and Me, I'm Imus" show, the day after six children, ages 8 to 24, back announcing he has cancer. home in the central Honduras Imus said that when he was fired city of Comayagua, Morales said. from a previous job, he assumed, His uncle was a humble, hard"I'll be fine," and he was right. He's working man devoted to helping taking the same attitude with the his family, he said. cancer. He also mixed in chat about "He was very popular," politics, culture and current events Morales said. "He was so helpin front of a live audience of about ful, always doing favors for 950 people at the Wilbur Theatre. people." Imus announced Monday that he has cancer on his morning show, which airs on ABC Radio Networks and cable's RFD-TV. Imus said he was surprised more than anything about the diagnosis, since he's followed a healthy diet for the past decade. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A dancing stunt knocked down Steve-O. The reality star was forced to skip Monday's "Dancing With the Stars" after falling on his back during a dress rehearsal earlier in the day. He landed fiat on his back after a failed front flip, smashing his spine into the microphone pack all performers wear. The 34-year-old was already nursing a pinched nerve in his back. The funnyman didn't break any bones, said dance partner Lacey Schwimmer, but he hasn't yet been cleared to dance on future episodes. LOS ANGELES (AP)-Talk show host Carson Daly has a new full-time guest. Daly's publicist Heather Lylis said the 35-year-old TV personality and girlfriend Siri Pinter are the proud parents of a baby boy. Jackson James Daly was born Sunday, weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces. New York City goes green ST. P A T R I C K ' S D A Y P A R A D E passes St. Patricks Cathedral Tuesday, March 17 in New York. SL Patrick's Day revelers took a break from worries about the global economy to enjoy a day of shamrockthemed frivolity, dyeing city fountains green, taking icy ocean plunges and crowding sidewalks along parade routes to see and be seen.AP photo LgfeMfeHumor David Letterman's Top Ten Ways The GOP Can Become More Hip - Friday, March 13,2009 10. Change mascot from an elephant to a can of Mountain Dew. Wall Street resumes rallyfollowing housing report 9. Buy one of them computers all the kids are using. NEW YORK (AP) - You know things have changed on Wall Street when the housing industry saves the day. A surprise government report that home construction picked up in February caught traders off guard and injected a week-old stock market rally with new energy Tuesday. Stocks of homebuilders and banks jumped as bullish investors saw yet another sign that the deeply troubled economy was beginning to show signs of stabilizing. Tuesday's rally, which picked up momentum as the day went on, wound up pushing the Dow Jones industrial average up 179 points, or 2.5 percent and the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index up more than 3 percent. It was the market's fifth gain over the past six trading days. The housing report was the latest checkmark in a growing list of upbeat news. Traders began reconsidering their dire view of the economy early last week when Citigroup Inc. said it had generated a profit in the first two months of the year. Other troubled banks handed out similarly upbeat assessments, followed by encouraging reports on key measures of the economy's health such as retail sales. Since the rally began last week, the Dow is up 849 points, or 13 percent. That's the kind of percentage gain that might normally take a year to assemble. The market has established a clear shift in tone over the past week. Jittery traders had blown apart earlier rallies this year by selling just as stocks managed to advance. A 20 percent gain from late November until the start of the year vanished as worries grew7 about the tattered balance sheets at large banks and signs that consumers will pulling back on their spending. LARKSBURG^B&ESLAW • STONELEIGH vgan's ' Pr.e'mie-r-indent Apartments SCHS(5L>TEXk^-TAKING SUMMER APPLICATIONS ONLY BRESLAW STONELEIGH For more information all Darin (455) "S>-8>^ • Pager (435) 206-1929 • durUWarkJ'pai.ncr 8. Appoint Michael Phelps chairman in charge of chillaxing. 7. They should totally start a band. 6. Change Rush Limbaugh's name to Spongerush Fatpants. 5. Add highlights to combovers and hairpieces. 4. Four words: Lil Wayne for Senator. 3. Bring back this guy. 2. How 'bout stealing and ordering hits like when Nixon ran things. 1. Fewer reactionary old white guys. 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