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Show Celebs&People Ibrfgy'slssue Today is Monday, March 23, 2009. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is dedicated to Robert Kitteridge, a junior majoring in civil engineering, from Payson, 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 Quirky regional dictionary nears finish MADISON, Wis. (AP)-Ifyou don't know a stone toter from Adam's off ox, or aren't sure what a grinder shop sells, the Dictionary of American Regional English is for you. The collection of regional words and phrases is beloved by linguists and authors and used as a reference in professions as diverse as acting and police work. And now, after five decades of wide-ranging research that sometimes got word-gatherers run out of suspicious small towns, the job is almost finished. The dictionary team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is nearing completion of the final volume, covering "S" to "Z." A new federal grant will help the volume get published next y ea r, joining the first four volumes already in print. "It will be a huge milestone," said editor Joan Houston Hall. The dictionary chronicles words and phrases used in distinct regions. Maps show where a submarine sandwich might be called a hero or grinder, or where a potluck - as in a potluck dinner or supper - might be called a pitch-in (Indiana) or a scramble (northern Illinois). Space shuttle moves to avoid space junk CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Confronted with orbiting junk again, NASA ordered the astronauts aboard the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of a piece of debris Sunday. Discovery's pilots fired their ship's thrusters to reorient the two spacecraft and thereby avoid a small piece from a 10-year-old Chinese satellite rocket motor that was due to pass uncomfortably close during Monday's planned spacewalk. Mission Control said keeping the spacecraft in this position for about three hours - with Discovery's belly facing forward - would result in a slow, natural drag of about a foot per second, enough to get the complex out of the way of the 4-inch piece of junk. 15 year old dies after police Taser him BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) - Police in Michigan say a 15-year-old boy has died after being Tasered by officers who were trying to break up a fight. Police didn't release his name and say state police are investigating. A Bay City police news release says officers answered a report of an early morning fight on Sunday. The statement says two males were arguing in an apartment, and one of them "attempted to fight the officers." Police say officers Tasered him, and his reaction led them to immediately call for emergency medical help. He was pronounced dead at Bay Regional Medical Center. Deputy Chief Thomas Pletzke tells WNEM-TV police placed one officer on administrative leave. CHICAGO (AP)-Oprah Winfrey offered to share the cover of O magazine with Ellen DeGeneres, and DeGeneres - who's been campaigning for the spot has accepted. Winfrey surprised DeGeneres DEGENERES with a video telephone call on Friday's episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." She told a shocked DeGeneres that she was "calling to officially invite you on the cover of O." DeGeneres, who's been mounting a campaign for the cover during A FIRE BURNS inside the Holy Cross Cemetery after a small, singe-engine plane crashed in an area just her "Ellen" talk show, told Winfrey: south of the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, Mont, on Sunday, March 22. Seventeen people, including several "I can't believe you're serious about children, were killed in the incident, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. AP photo this. I'm freaking out right now." Winfrey had gone solo on the cover of O magazine for nine years before sharing the spot with first lady Michelle Obama. MALIBU, Calif. (AP)-British singer Natasha Bedingfield has gotten married in Malibu. People Magazine reports the pop songstress wed California businessman Matthew Robinson Fergus said the Pilatus PC-12 aircraft was manu• BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - A small plane crashed in a 30-minute outdoor ceremony factured in 2001. Sunday as it approached an airport in Montana, overlooking the Pacific Ocean on I. Felkamp is listed as Eagle Cap's president killing 17 people, including several children, a Saturday. in Oregon corporate records. Attempts to reach Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. About 150 guests watched Felkamp by phone were unsuccessful. The single engine turboprop plane crashed Bedingfield walk down the aisle In California, Tom Hagler said he saw a group about 500 feet from the airport in Butte while in a Vera Wang dress beside the of about a dozen children and four adults Sunday attempting to land, said spokesman Mike Fergus. chateau at the Church Estates morning at the Oroville Municipal Airport, about The Montana Standard reported in an online story Vineyards. 70 miles north of Sacramento. that it crashed in Butte's Holy Cross Cemetery. Bedingfield's albums include Hagler, owner of Table Mountain Aviation, The aircraft had departed from Oroville, Calif., "Unwritten," "N.B." and "Pocketful described the children as ranging from about 6- to and the pilot had filed a flight plan showing a desof Sunshine." 10 year olds. He let the children into his building to tination of Bozeman, about 85 miles southeast of LOS ANGELES (AP)-Peter use the restroom. Butte. But the pilot canceled his flight plan at some Falk's daughter is asking a court to "There were a lot of kids in the group," he said. point and headed for Butte, Fergus said. establish a conservatorship so that "A lot of really cute kids." Preliminary reports indicate the dead include she can continue to visit her ailing Hagler said he showed the pilot where he could numerous children, he said. There were no known father. fill up on fuel, and the pilot said he expected his fatalities on the ground, he added. In court documents filed Friday flight to take two-and-a-half hours. The pilot didn't "We think that it was probably a ski trip for the in Los Angeles, Catherine Falk file a flight plan at the Oroville airport. kids," Fergus said. argues that a conservatorship is the National Transportation Safety Board spokesThe plane was registered to Eagle Cap Leasing only way to prevent the actor's wife Inc. in Enterprise, Ore., Fergus said. He didn't know man Keith Holloway said its investigators were from blocking her regular visits. expected to arrive in Butte late Sunday or early who was operating the plane. The filing states the "Columbo" Monday. Calls to local authorities were not immediately returned. The incident was the country's third major plane actor is suffering from advanced dementia. Witnesses told the Standard that they saw the crash this year. All 155 people onboard survived Catherine Falk was granted one plane go into a nosedive into the cemetery. after a US Airways jetliner landed in New York's supervised visit last month; no Hudson River in January when a flock of geese disMartha and Steve Guidoni, who were at a gas discussion of how that visit went abled both engines, and a commuter plane fell on a station across from the cemetery, said the plane is included in the documents filed house in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., killing all 49 pas"just nose-dived into the ground." Friday. sengers and a man in the home in February. "My husband went over there to see if he could The filing only seeks to establish do anything," Martha Guidoni said. a conservatorship over Falk, not his estate. A hearing was scheduled for Monday. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bruce Willis has tied the knot for the second time. The actor's publicity agency, Rogers & Cowan, says in a stateOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Relatives of CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan ment Sunday that the 54-year-old the man suspected of fatally shooting three President Hugo Chavez on Sunday called Willis married Emma Heming in Oakland police officers said Sunday the 26President Barack Obama "ignorant," saying he a small, private ceremony at his year-old parolee was frustrated about not findhas a lot to learn about Latin America. home in Parrot Cay in the Turks & ing work and feared returning to jail. The Venezuelan leader said he had Caicos Islands. The suspect Lovelle Mixon was slain in a been ready to name a new ambassador in gunfight with police during which two officers Washington when Obama took office, but were killed Saturday, authorities said. Another put that on hold after the new U.S. president officer was fatally shot earlier in the day and a accused him of "exporting terrorism" and fourth gravely wounded after the two of them being an obstacle to progress in the region. David Letttrman Tuesday, August 20, pulled Mixon over for a routine traffic stop, "At least one could say, 'poor ignorant per2002, Top Ten Signs You're Not Going police said. son,'" Chavez said on his weekly television and to Win "American Idol" Mixon's family gathered Sunday at his radio program, adding that Obama "should grandmother's East Oakland home, where he read a little bit so that he learns about... the 10. Only got two phone votes last had stayed on and off since being released reality of Latin America." week, and one was a wrong number. from a nine-month sentence for a parole violaU.S. National Security Council spokestion, family members said. man Mike Hammer declined to comment on 9. Sang one note and your car's He had previously served six years in state Chavez's statements. already loaded with parting gifts. prison for assault with a firearm during an Chavez's relations with Washington grew armed robbery in San Francisco, the family increasingly strained under former President 8. The only other time you sang in said. While he was in Corcoran state prison, George W. Bush. The Venezuelan president public, you received a $50 fine. he married his childhood girlfriend, they said. expelled the U.S. ambassador and withdrew Mixon's uncle, 38-year-old Curtis Mixon his envoy from Washington in September. 7. Amish sect forbids you to appear of Fremont, said his nephew had become Top diplomats have yet to be restored at either on camera or use any audio equipdepressed because he could not find work as a embassy. ment. convicted felon. His nephew expected authoriChavez and Obama both plan to attend a ties to issue an arrest warrant for missing 6. Russian mob strong-armed the summit of leaders from across the Americas parole meetings, even though the he felt he French judge into voting against you. next month in Trinidad and Tobago. There, was not to blame, he said. Chavez said he will make a case for Cuba to be 5. You look like a teenaged Henry included in regional talks, saying "we can no "I think his frustration was building up, Kissinger. longer continue to accept the impositions of the but he was trying to better himself," Curtis U.S. empire." Mixon said. Mixon was wanted on a no-bail warrant for 4. While you sing, you chain-smoke "We ask only for respect for Venezuela, Kools. violating his parole when Sgt. Mark Dunakin, nothing else," Chavez said. "If Obama respects 40, and Officer John Hege, 41, both on motorus, we'll respect him. If Obama tries to keep 3. The "studio"-your basement. The cycles, stopped a 1995 Buick sedan in east disrespecting Venezuela, we will confront the "judges"- your kitties. Oakland just after 1 p.m., police said. U.S. empire." The driver opened fire, killing Dunakin Chavez said he showed some of the U.S. 2. Your ill-advised song, "I Love You, and gravely wounding Hege, Oakland police administration's critical remarks about him Osama." spokesman Jeff Thomason said. to U.S. Rep. William Delahunt when the Police initially issued a statement Sunday Massachusetts Democrat visited Caracas last 1. The only words you can make out saying Hege had died but later backtracked, week. form screaming audience members saying the officer had been declared brain "They keep pointing to me as the bad boy, are "microphone," "shove" and "ass". dead but remained on life support while a as the one who attacks," Chavez said. "Who decision was made about donating his organs. started the attack first? Obama." Children among 17 dead in Montana plane crash Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama Ignorant' Suspect in Oakland cop deaths feared jail LflfeMfeHumor |