Family News Home Archive for January, 2008

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. There may have been four GOP contenders for the White House on stage Wednesday, but the debate before so-called “Super-Duper” Tuesday was really only between two of them newly anointed front-runner John McCain and Mitt Romney.
The pair sparred several times [...]

Utah’s current 70-cents-per-pack cigarette tax should be increased by more than 70 percent, with the $25 million or so increase in funds going to various health-improvement programs, including cancer screening and smoking cessation programs, a Utah legislator says.
Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, introduced a bill Wednesday [...]

The number of visitors paying their respects at President Gordon B. Hinckley’s viewing today and Friday is expected to top 60,000 each day, but people waiting in line will be able to use the Conference Center’s 21,000-seat auditorium instead of braving the cold outside.
The Church [...]

As Mother Nature gathers steam for another string of winter storms about to hit the state, public works officials are starting to cringe when they look at the sky.
The extraordinary amount of snow and ice that’s fallen on city streets so far this winter season [...]

Salt Lake County leaders on Wednesday axed a consultant hired to do a study on a county Broadway-style theater.
Duncan Webb, of Webb Management Services, failed to disclose that he already completed a similar study for Sandy leaders, who are angling to build the theater in [...]