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Show i i t i ¥ St Celebs&People Today is Friday, March 20, 2009. Todays issue of The Utah Statesman is dedicated to Samantha Griffiths, majoring in English from Riverton, Utah. 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 orTSC105. \ Briefs Philly firefighters hurt when 2 trucks collide PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Two fire trucks responding to a call collided at a downtown intersection Thursday, injuring nine firefighters, one seriously. Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said none of the injuries appeared life-threatening after the crash, which involved a ladder truck and a fire engine in a residential neighborhood. The most seriously injured firefighter, a lieutenant on the ladder truck, was knocked unconscious and had to be cut from the wreckage. Ayers said he spoke at a hospital with the injured lieutenant, whose first question was, "How's my guys?" The ladder truck slammed into a utility pole, smashing in one of its sides, while the fire engine crashed into the back of a parked car. No other injuries were reported, but a woman inside a flower shop nearly struck by the ladder truck was taken to a hospital for observation because she was shaken up, Ayers said. Famed fossil hunter to admit dinosaur crimes BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A famed paleontologist who discovered the world s best perserved dinosaur intends to plead guilty to stealing dinosaur bones from federal land. The change of plea motion from Nathan Murphy follows state and federal investigations into his alleged attempts to cash in on the highly lucrative fossil market. Murphy, 51, is a self-taught dinosaur expert who spent much of the last two decades searching for bones in central Montana's Hell Creek formation - a rocky badlands once stalked by the fearsome tyrannosaurus rex. In 200, he famously discoved a mummified, 77-million-year-old duckbilled hadrosaur known as Leonardo, considered the best preserved in the world. Former Nazi guard deported WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Nazi concentration-camp guard was deported from Wisconsin to Austria on Thursday, despite objections from his lawyer that the guard was simply present at the camp but committed no acts of persecution. Prosecutors said 83-yearold Josias Kumpf(yoh-SEE-uhs KOOMF) served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen(ZAHK'-zen-how-zen) concentration camp in Germany, the Trawniki (trafh-NEE-kee) labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and slave labor sites in occupied France. U.S. investigators alleged that he participated in a 1943 mass shooting in Poland in which 8,000 Jewish men, women and children were murdered in pits at Trawniki in a single day. "Josias Kumpf, by his own admission, stood guard with orders to shoot any surviving prisoners who attempted to escape an SS massacre that left thousands of Jews dead,H Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita Glavin said in a statement. A N AIG OFFICE BUILDING is shown Tuesday, March 17 in New York. Americans have stomached bailout after bailout as necessary medicine, but the revelation that millions of the taxpayer dollars to keep AIG afloat are being paid out as bonuses has hit a mammoth nerve. AP photo House passes bill taxing bonuses WASHINGTON (AP) - Acting swiftly, the Democratic-led House approved a bill Thursday to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses at firms bailed out by taxpayers. The bill would impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses given to employees with family incomes above $250,000 at American International Group and other companies that have received at least $5 billion in government bailout money. "We want our money back now for the taxpayers," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. Democrats led the charge in an attempt to get in front of raging public anger over the AIG bonuses, even though a provision that would have made such payouts illegal was stripped from last month's $787 billion stimulus bill by its Democratic sponsors. The vote to tax back most of the bonuses was 328-93. Voting "yes" were 243 Democrats and 85 Republicans. It was opposed by six Democrats and 87 Republicans. The bonuses, totaling $165 million, were paid to employees of troubled insurer AIG over the weekend, including to traders in the unit that nearly brought about the company's collapse. U See BILL, page 11 Mexico nabs suspected cartel leader MEXICO CITY (AP)-A purported top leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel was in police custody Thursday, as authorities extended a cross-border crackdown on the gang that has included the arrest of 755 of its members in the U.S. Vicente "El Vicentillo" Zambada was arrested before dawn Wednesday at a home in an elite Mexico City neighborhood, said Gen. Luis Arturo Oliver, the Mexican Defense Department's deputy chief of operations. Oliver said Zambada became a top Sinaloa cartel leader last year, with control over logistics and the authority to order assassinations of government authorities and rivals. "This significantly affects the organization's ability to operate and distribute drugs," said Ricardo Cabrera, who runs the terrorism and drug traf- ficking unit in Mexico's federal Attorney General's office. Zambada's father, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, also is considered a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel and is among Mexico's most-wanted suspects. Last month, President Barack Obama's administration announced that investigators had arrested 755 Sinaloa cartel members in cities and towns all over the United States. The U.S. is seeking Zambada's extradition under a 2003 trafficking indictment, but he will have to face charges in Mexico before the request can be considered. The Sinaloa cartel is alleged to have bribed top Mexican security officials including former drug czar Noe Ramirez, who is accused of accepting $450,000 to tip cartel leaders to police operations. Ramirez has denied the charges. Oliver said police and military personnel were closely watching the exclusive Lomas del Pedregal neighborhood where Zambada was arrested after receiving complaints about armed men in cars. They surprised Zambada and five bodyguards and arrested them without a shot, seizing three AR15 semiautomatic assault rifles, three pistols, three cars, and several thousand dollars in cash. Paraded in front of reporters Thursday in a black blazer and dark bluejeans, the 33-year-old stared straight ahead, stonefaced. His clean-cut look was a sharp contrast from a U.S. Treasury Department photo released in 2007 that showed him in a mustache and cowboy hat. His family has long been tied to drug trafficking. Zambada's uncle, Jesus "The King" Autopsy. Richardson died from brain injury NEW YORK (AP) - Tony-winning actress Natasha Richardson died of a brain injury after falling on a ski slope, an autopsy found Thursday. The cause of death was epidural hematoma (bleeding between the skull and the brains covering), said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office. Richardson was not wearing a helmet and the death was ruled an accident. An epidural hematoma is often caused by a skull fracture. The bleeding causes a blood clot that puts*pressure on the brain. That pressure can force the brain downward to press on the brain stem that controls breathing and other vital functions, causing coma or death. Frequently, surgeons cut off part of the skull to give the brain room to swell. Richardson, 45, died Wednesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after falling at the Mont Tremblant resort in Quebec on Monday. Descended from one of Britain's greatest acting dynasties, including her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, Richardson was known for her work in such plays as "Cabaret" (for which she won a Tony) and "Anna Christie" and in the films "Patty Hearst" and "The Handmaid s Tale." The mourning continued Thursday as v »/ LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Modest Mouse music video directed by the late Heath Ledger is set for release this year. A spokeswoman for the band says Ledger directed an animated video for "King Rat," a track off the band's 2007 album, "We LEDGER Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank." Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock collaborated with Ledger on the video's concept, Lisa Markowitz says, adding that Brock "is supporting the completion of the video in honor of Heath's last piece of work as a director." The actor, who died last year at age 28, had previously directed a music video for one of Ben Harper's songs. NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Rapper Lil Wayne must turn over financial records for his latest album to a folk singer who has accused him of copyright infringement. On Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Daniel Knowles III ordered the New Orleans rapper to hand over records about the sale of 2008s "Tha Carter III." Karma-Ann Swanepoel claims in a federal lawsuit filed in May that Lil Wayne didn't have permission to sample her song "Once" in the track "I Feel Like Dying." The lawsuit says Lil Wayne's record label, Cash Money Records, failed to negotiate a license to use Swanepoel's song before millions of people downloaded "I Feel Like Dying." BOSTON (AP) - Don Imus told listeners Tuesday that he assumes he'll be fine in his battle with prostate cancer, because that's what he always thinks. The 68-year-old radio personality bantered with listeners at Boston radio station WTKK-FM during his live annual St. Patrick s Day "Kiss Me, I'm Imus" show, the day after announcing he has cancer. Imus said that when he was fired from a previous job, he assumed, "I'll be fine," and he was right. He's taking the same attitude with the cancer. He also mixed in chat about politics, culture and current events in front of a live audience of about 950 people at the Wilbur Theatre. He talked to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who was also treated for prostate cancer, about the economy and outrage over reports of huge bonuses for AIG executives. Imus told Kerry that his cancer has so far been limited to the prostate and has not spread. "You're going to be all right, I'm convinced," Kerry said. LateNiteHumor David Letterman Top 10, Wednesday, March 21,2001 Top 10 Things You Don't Want to Hear In A Beauty Salon 10. "Well, I don't know what I'm doing here but here goes." I N THIS APRIL 26, 2005, file photo, actress Natasha Richardson is shown at her opening night performance in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" Studio 54 in New York. Richardson, 45, died Wednesday March 18 in New York. AP photo Broadway theaters intended to dim their lights in honor of Richardson and colleagues offered tributes. Fitting for an actress of Hollywood beauty and classical training, praise came from both tabloid celebrities - "The Parent Trap" co-star Lindsay Lohan - and artists of the theater, like Sam Mendes, who directed the 1998 revival of the Broadway musical "Cabaret." "It defies belief that this gifted, brave, tenacious, wonderful woman is gone," said Mendes, also known as the director of the Academy Award-winning "American Beauty." Theater marquees will be dimmed for one minute at 8 p.m., the traditional starting time for evening performances of Broadway shows. Richardson gave several memorable stage performances, more than living up to some of the theaters most famous roles: Sally Bowles of [ 1 See AUTOPSY, page 11 9. "It's been three whole days since one of our customers got their ear clipped off." 8. "Ohh, a lock of your hair! I'll treasure it always." 7. "You know, I have the Hair Club for Men phone number if you want it." 6. "Hey, this is the first time I've seen you back here since the lice incident." 5. "You know, there are doctors that can correct misshapen heads like yours." 4. "Wait! That's not shampoo, that's Nairf 3. "Nol This isn't the guy that wants the Yankee logo shaved in his headl" 2. 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