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Glen Mower (left), an instructor with the inmate education program at the Tooele County Jail, prepares material for class while instructor John Thomas works with inmate Jon Giblon on getting his GED. Both Mower and Thomas are full-time elementary school teachers who help out with classes at the jail three days a week.<br>-- photography / Troy Boman
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Education helping put inmates back on track
by Jamie Belnap
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Prison plus education equals no more prison — at least that’s the formula Tooele County Detention Center officials are banking on as they continue to encourage inmates to get GEDs and high school d...
School board rejects bid to lower tax rate
by Tim Gillie
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The Tooele County School Board approved a $177 million budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year but rejected a proposal by Tooele County School District administrators to reduce the property tax rate tha...
Fine-dining restaurant on the menu for downtown
by Doug Radunich
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An independent, fine-dining restaurant is scheduled to open in downtown Tooele this fall, adding another piece to the puzzle of revitalization efforts in the historic district. The building that o...
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Police guard the driveway of the home of Mary Kennedy in BedfordNEW YORK (Reuters) - The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. died from asphyxiation due to hanging, an autopsy revealed on Thursday, in an apparent suicide at the family's suburban New York home. A spokeswoman for the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office, Donna Greene, said the autopsy performed on Mary Kennedy, 52, revealed she died of suffocation. "The cause of death was put at asphyxiation due to hanging," Greene said. Results of toxicology tests would not be ready for several months, she said. ...


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Police Department announced changes on Thursday to its controversial crime-fighting tactic known as "stop and frisk," saying it would revise the way it trains officers and make clear to them that its policy prohibits racial profiling. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly outlined the changes in a letter to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a leading critic of the policy which, some say, unfairly targets black and Latino New Yorkers and alienates minority communities. ...
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