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Vol. 99 No. 073
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Weather
By Matthew K. Jensen
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Post-Sept. 11
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The Cache County Sheriff’s
Office announced Friday
afternoon that police authorities in Pueblo, Colo., have
arrested Robert W. Ferretti,
42, in connection with the
murder of Tiffany Britt Jarmon, whose body was found
in Logan Canyon on Nov. 8.
Jarmon, 33, of Salt Lake
City, was discovered by a
fisherman just yards from
U.S. Highway 89 near the
Birch Glenn summer home
area, about 10 minutes east
of Logan. Officials found a
gunshot wound in the back of
her head after removing her
from a spot just feet from the
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said detectives believe Ferretti and Jarmon were friends
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On the skeleton crew
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campus to themselves
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tah State University’s campus
was so quiet this week, you’d
almost expect to see a tumbleweed rolling down Old Main Hill.
With a mandatory unpaid furlough
in place, the school was virtually
deserted — but not quite.
A handful of people could be found
inside the quiet buildings, which were
also empty of students due to Spring
Break. Administrators had deemed
these employees as necessary and
gave them permission to work during
the furlough.
All will have to take five unpaid
days off later in the year except student employees, who are exempt from
the furlough plan. By imposing this
sacrifice, USU administrators hope to
save nearly $5.65 million, which was
cut from their coffers two months ago.
On Friday, The Herald Journal
spoke to a handful of employees who
worked during the week to learn their
views of the furlough and hear what it
was like to have the whole campus to
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Index
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See FAKES on A8
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Logan, Utah
Arrest made in canyon homicide
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WASHINGTON (AP)
— Using phony documents
and the identities of a dead
man and a 5-year-old boy,
a government investigator
obtained U.S. passports in a
test of post-9/11 security.
Despite efforts to boost
passport security since the
2001 terror attacks, the
investigator fooled passport
and postal service employees four out of four times,
according to a new report
made public Friday.
The report by the Government Accountability Office,
Congress’ investigative arm,
details the ruses:
• One investigator used
the Social Security number
of a man who died in 1965,
a fake New York birth certificate and a fake Florida
driver’s license. He received
a passport four days later.
• A second attempt had
the investigator using a 5year-old boy’s information
but identifying himself as
53 years old on the passport
application. He received that
passport seven days later.
• In another test, an investigator used fake documents
to get a genuine Washington,
D.C., identification card,
which he then used to apply
for a passport. He received it
the same day.
• A fourth investigator used
a fake New York birth certificate and a fake West Virginia
driver’s license and got the
passport eight days later.
Criminals and terrorists place a high value on
illegally obtained travel
documents, U.S. intelligence
officials
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World leaders
split over how
to fix economy
WASHINGTON (AP)
— The leaders of the world’s
most powerful economies are
deeply split over how to fight
a downturn that is intensifying around the globe, with
no nation in a position of
strength as finance ministers
gather to talk about the crisis.
The United States is pushing for more worldwide stimulus measures, but Europe
wants world leaders to focus
instead on stricter oversight,
arguing that lax American
regulation is to blame for the
economic decline in the first
place.
Complicating the international tension, the premier
of China, which holds more
than $727 billion in U.S.
Treasury securities and is by
far the biggest U.S. creditor,
expressed concern Friday
See FIX on A8