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Show Celebs&People Today'slssue Today is Monday, April 13, 2009. Todays issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Alexis Hutchinson, a freshman majoring in social work from Pleasant Grove, Utah. LOS ANGELES (AP)-Katie Holmes is headed back to the stage, this time for the annual Memorial Day weekend concert in Washington, D.C. Holmes and actor Gary Sinise are among the stars confirmed for the event, set for Sunday, May 24. The wife of Tom Cruise along HOLMES with actress Dianne Weist will team up to read one veteran's personal story. Those readings have been based on veterans' letters home in past concerts. The concert will include appearances by Laurence Fishburne, Katharine McPhee, Trace Adkins, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Broadway stars CREW MEMBERS OF the ship celebrate after their captain was released, on the deck of the Maersk Brian Stokes Mitchell and Colm Alabama at the Mombasa port in Kenya, Sunday. AP photo Wilkinson. NEW YORK (AP)-Stephen Colbert is still clinging to hope that NASA will name a new room at the international space station after him. Obama said Phillips had courage that was MOMBASA, Kenya (AP)-An American ship The space agency said Friday "a model for all Americans" and he was pleased captain was freed unharmed Sunday and three of it would announce the name of about the rescue, adding that the United States his captors were killed in a daring rescue by U.S. the module Tuesday on Comedy needs help from other countries to deal with the Navy Seals that ended a five-day standoff between Central's "The Colbert Report." threat of piracy and to hold pirates accountable. the world's most powerful Navy and Somali Astronaut Sunita Williams will The Navy said Phillips was freed at 7:19 p.m. pirates in a lifeboat far off the Horn of Africa. appear on the program. local time. He was taken aboard the Norfolk, Capt. Richard Phillips was in "imminent danThe agency held an online conVirginia-based Bainbridge and then flown to the ger" of being killed before U.S. Special Operations test, letting the public vote on a San Diego-based USS Boxer for the medical exam, name for a future addition to the forces shot the pirates in an operation personally 5th Fleet spokesman Lt. Nathan Christensen said. station. "Colbert" beat out NASA's approved by President Barack Obama, U.S. officials said. Christensen said Phillips was now "resting four suggested options: Serenity, comfortably." The USS Boxer was in the Indian Phillips' crew, who said they had escaped after Legacy, Earthrise and Venture. Ocean off the coast of Somalia, Christensen said. he offered himself as a hostage, erupted in cheers TORONTO (AP) - Billy Bob U.S. officials said a fourth pirate had surrenaboard their ship docked in Mombasa, Kenya. Thornton's band has canceled the dered and was in military custody. FBI spokesman rest of its Canadian tour after the Some waved an American flag and fired flares in John Miller said that would change as the situation actor compared the country's fans celebration. became "more of a criminal issue than a military Phillips, 53, of Underbill, Vermont, was not to mashed potatoes with no gravy hurt in several minutes of gunfire and the U.S. in a testy interview that caused a issue. Navy's 5th Fleet said he was resting comfortably A spokeswoman for the Phillips family, Alison sensation online. on a US. warship after receiving a medical exam. McColl, said Phillips and his wife, Andrea, spoke The cancellation came two days *"* "Tm just the byline. The real heroes are the by phone stiortly after he was freed. after Thornton made world headNavy, the Seals, those who have brought me "I think you can all imagine their joy and what lines with a belligerent appearance home," Phillips said by phone to Maersk Line a happy moment that was for them," McColl said on CBC radio's "Q." Limited President and CEO John Reinhart, the outside of the Phillips home in Underhill. "They're The actor apparently didn't like company head told reporters. A photo released by all just so happy and relieved. Andrea wanted me that host Jian Ghomeshi started the Navy showed Phillips unharmed and shaking to tell the nation that all of your prayers and good the interview with references to hands with the commanding officer of the USS wishes have paid off because Capt. Phillips is safe." Thornton's Hollywood career. Bainbridge Clarify/Correct 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. NatWrteH 2 Houston firefighters die in house fire HOUSTON (AP) - Two firefighters in Texas have died in an Easter Sunday house fire. Houston Fire Department District Chief Tommy Dowdy said the department responded to a house fire call early Sunday in the southeast part of the city. Dowdy confirmed that two firefighters died at the scene. He would not release additional details pending notification of their families. Neighbors said firefighters had entered the house after the blaze appeared to be dying down. But witnesses said flames suddenly shot through the roof and erupted sideways through the house. • •Authorities said firefighters were then ordered out of the house but two failed to answer roll call. Red River tributary poised to flood HORACE, N.D. (AP) - Residents of the Fargo area already have survived one threatening flood crest this spring on the Red River and are hunkered down for another. For others in the region, it's been more like slow torture as they wait for high water to peak on one of the Red's little brothers. The Red River crested at Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., late last month just short of 41 feet, after an intense sandbagging effort that raised levees and helped the two cities largely escape major damage. The river's second crest is projected to reach 38 feet to 40 feet by next weekend. 6 die after organ transplant plane crash ANN ARBOR. Mich. (AP) - A copilot may have accidentally activated the autopilot on a medical plane shortly before it crashed and killed both pilots and a four-member organ transplant learn, according to a federal safety agency's report. The report on a simulation of the ilight's final minutes came from a National Transportation Safety Board team, the Detroit Free Press reported Sunday. U.S. sea captain freed Pope urges hope for end to war, poverty VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI sought to give a message of hope on Easter Sunday to victims of wars, poverty and financial turmoil, saying it was urgently needed to overcome the miseries that are plaguing Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the globe. Benedict delivered his "Urbi et Orbi" message - Latin for "to the city and the world" - after celebrating Easter Mass before tens of thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square and the boulevard leading up to it. The piazza, decorated with yellow tulips, azaleas, apple blossoms and other spring flowers, overflowed with the faithful celebrating the most joyous and important day in the Christian church calendar, Christ's resur- rection. In his speech, Benedict said hope was urgently needed around the globe, despite mounting reasons for despair. "At a time of world food shortage, of financial turmoil, of old and new forms of poverty, of disturbing climate change, of violence and depravation which force many to leave their homelands in search of a less precarious form of existence, of the ever-present threat of terrorism, of growing fears over the future, it is urgent to rediscover grounds for hope," he said. In Jerusalem, the faithful celebrated Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to mark the site where Jesus was crucified, buried and then resurrected. Brown-robed Premier Student Apartments SOLD OUT NEXT SCHOOL YEAR -TAKING. SUMMER APPLICATIONS ONLY ClARKSUURG ._. _ ___._ BRESLAW ' STONELEIGH David Letterman's Top Ten Signs Your Monkey Needs a Bath July 17, 2008 10. 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