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Many selling at loss to avoid foreclosure
Evelia Castrejon moved to Utah 13 years ago from her native Mexico in hope of finding her American dream, which included owning a home.
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Lawmakers push quick bank-stock purchase
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders on Sunday that isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreading financial crisis. With a new trading week dawning, U.S. lawmakers urged quick action by the Bush administration on measures to make direct purchases of bank stock to help unlock lending.
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Immigration laws untenable and need reform, bishop says
A call for compassion and a renewed recognition of human dignity highlighted Salt Lake Catholic Bishop John Wester's address Sunday evening on U.S. immigration reform.
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Ed officials in limbo on tests
Since receiving the green light from the Utah Legislature on computer-adaptive testing, State Office of Education officials are now hitting up the federal government for approval.
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Utah Jazz: Kirilenko experiment paying off
Carlos Boozer was back, a pretty big deal in itself. But the real million-dollar case for the Jazz on Sunday Andrei Kirilenko and coach Jerry Sloan's club. Hitting 7-of-10 from the field, Kirilenko again came off the bench and had a team-high 15 points the Jazz's 93-80 preseason win at Portland.
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Utah Utes football: Special teams, defense shine
Utah quarterback Brian Johnson got right to the point after Saturday's 40-7 victory over Wyoming.
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BYU football: Cougars gear up for short week
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall gave his team all of six seconds — one second for each win this season — to celebrate its 21-3 victory over New Mexico.
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MormonTimes.com: Anyone can help with FamilySearch indexing anytime, anywhere
The vision of FamilySearch's volunteer indexing projects is spreading worldwide from Latin America to Asia and from the old to the young.
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Can drinking coffee help control type 2 diabetes?
Nutrition scientists aren't ready to recommend coffee as a dietary supplement, but they say something in it is definitely beneficial to controlling the course and perhaps the onset of type 2 diabetes — a mostly diet-based, self-induced metabolism disorder linked to dozens of serious illnesses.
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Piano man: Teacher uses fun exercised to instruct in music theory
Jerald M. Simon, in addition to being the vice president of programs for the Ogden chapter of the Utah Music Teachers Association and a piano teacher, is also an entrepreneur.
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