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Money for Nothing
An alleged immigration scam ruins dozens of lives.
POSTED // May 6,2009 - In July 2005, when Uruguayan couple Edgardo Flores and wife Sylvia Mendes heard about a woman in a Hispanic ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who might be able to help them...
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Gone Baby Gone
A Mexican grandmother fights Utah’s impossible bureaucracy for custody of her nieta.
POSTED // Apr 29,2009 - Medina Garcia was brushing her teeth in a North Salt Lake apartment at 10:45 p.m. on July 18, 2007, when the lights went out. The front door crashed open and a Salt Lake City Police Department SWAT team stormed in.
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Dream State
Two Bosnian youths displaced by ethnic strife find a life together in Utah.
POSTED // Apr 15,2009 - The gunshot was so close to 12-year-old Nermin Uvejzovic, he felt the sound like a slap against his cheek. He was running for his life through mountain forests near his village Godjenje in eastern Bosnia ...
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Beetles Attack!
An imported leaf-eating bug is chewing up the scenery from Moab to Salt Lake City.
POSTED // Mar 11,2009 - When University of Utah biologist Kevin Hultine went down to where the Colorado River meets the Dolores at Dewey Bridge, just outside Moab, one afternoon in June 2006, he was shocked.
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Hear My Plea
Sandy teen Kareena MacGregor was pressured into admitting she killed her newborn. The full story didn’t seem to matter.
POSTED // Feb 19,2009 - Ashcroft suggested Kareena, the middle child, take a bath. She felt better, but after getting out of the tub, she threw up. Kareena lay down for a while and started moaning.
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City Guide 2009 | Swept Away
The Utah Opera & Utah Symphony
POSTED // Jan 28,2009 - Utah OperanMuch of the pleasure of Utah Opera comes from the attention to detail, particularly the sumptuous colors of their costumes that adroitly work with the music to sweep audiences up into the full force of the operatic musical storm. Finally, though, it’s the passion of their singers that melds everything together. When Utah Opera’s at the top of its game—which is more of...
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News | Greek Tragedy: USU fraternity president insists hazing charges in pledge's death make no sense.
POSTED // Jan 21,2009 - When 20-year-old Sigma Nu fraternity president Cody Littlewood checked on freshman pledge Michael Starks at 3:15 a.m. on Nov. 21, 2008, he says Starks was snoring. Earlier that night, Starks, 18, had been mock-kidnapped by members of a neighboring sorority on Logan’s Greek Row, across the road from Utah State University. At a private residence, the women told Starks and a second pledge to st...
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Feature | Swap Meet: Want to swing? You may find your answer at this Utah church.
POSTED // Dec 24,2008 - “I don’t know who are the animals and who are the humans in this zoo,” the bare-chested man in yellow shorts shouts as he bounces on a trampoline inside a nondescript Salt Lake City warehouse. He suddenly stops and lies down, half covered by a blanket, on the trampoline surface. A woman with spiky red hair and wearing a red chemise starts bouncing up and down beside him. As other...
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Diary of a Suicide
For two years Jason Ermer fought to make it home from Iraq. Last New Year’s Eve, he gave up.
POSTED // Dec 3,2008 - It was just after midnight on Dec. 31, 2007, and bitterly cold outside, when two Ogden police officers knocked on the door of Jason Ermer's home.
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News | Shake-up at the Leonardo: Body Worlds 3 a success, but museum barely clings to life.
POSTED // Nov 20,2008 - While the old library building in downtown Salt Lake City blazes with the energy of the highly successful Body Worlds 3 exhibition, across Library Square the offices of the Leonardo are shrouded in darkness. That darkness marks the Leonardo’s management team shifting offices to the third floor of the old library building. It also heralds the abrupt dissolution of a partnership that for some ...
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