90% of Provo rapes not reported to police
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PROVO More than 90 percent of rapes in the city go unreported, according to the lead rape investigator for the BYU Police Department.
BYU officer Arnie Lemmon said only 43 rapes were reported last year in Provo, leaving the actual number of rapes estimated at more [...]
Mitt McCain intensify fight
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LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. With Florida’s GOP primary looming on Tuesday, the competition between front-runners Mitt Romney and John McCain intensified Saturday as Romney continued to push his economic plan while McCain went back to talking about Iraq.
In his quest to get Florida’s 57 Republican [...]
Kirilenko now happier #151; plus trade values up
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Andrei Kirilenko seemed genuinely happy on Friday night after the Utah Jazz downed the Sacramento Kings.
And why wouldn’t he be?
The self-proclaimed “cold-blooded Russian” had just finished his best scoring game and perhaps his best all-around game of the season. Kirilenko went off [...]
Miss Utah Jill Stevens eliminated from Miss America Pageant
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LAS VEGAS The journey to Miss America ended for Miss Utah Jill Stevens tonight as she was eliminated from the competition after landing in the finals as the “America’s Choice” candidate, chosen by voters on the Web.
Though she had one of the largest cheering sections [...]
BYU impresses Lobos rookie coach
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PROVO First-year New Mexico basketball coach Steve Alford got his first taste of coaching against BYU, with his Lobos getting outshot and outplayed in the Cougars’ 83-66 victory Saturday afternoon at the Marriott Center.
The result: UNM’s season-worst shooting percentage and its season-worst loss.
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Majerus is now someone elses problem
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Brilliant, bodacious basketball coach Rick Majerus is in trouble again. Not so much on the court as off. And not because he’s driving drunk or dealing drugs. Those were never his vices. His problems always come from his mouth the food he puts in it and the words [...]
McCain wins Florida primary
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. After a grueling month of campaigning that began in Iowa, Florida voters have finally anointed a Republican front-runner in the race for the White House.
Arizona Sen. John McCain now stands with an open road ahead moving into next week’s Super Tuesday delegate-palooza [...]
LDS leadership succession plan wellestablished
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Latter-day Saints take comfort in the fact that their church is never without leadership, even when the presiding First Presidency is dissolved upon the death of the president.
Leadership automatically shifts to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in a move formally termed “apostolic interregnum.” That [...]
Lawmakers try again to hike tuition for illegals
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On the outside, Elizabeth looks just like any other Utah teenager. She’s white, as is an estimated 83 percent of the state’s population, and she shares the majority LDS faith.
Yet, even though this Southern Utah University student never crossed the border illegally and her parents [...]
Giuliani officially drops out endorses McCain
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially dropped out of the GOP presidential race Wednesday and endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain, saying he hoped the party’s nominee would be decided quickly.
Giuliani’s announcement came just hours before the remaining Republicans in the [...]
