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Matthew D. LaPlante

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Tyler Bingham, of Honeyville, competes in the bull riding event at the National High School Finals Rodeo in Gillette, Wyo., on Saturday. Tyler won the bull riding championship.

Utah dominates High School Finals Rodeo

Matthew D. LaPlante Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, July 24, 2011 - 8:04pm

GILLETTE, Wyo. -- Paige Hadlock of Ogden. Garrison Cannon of St. George. Tyler Bingham of Honeyville.

National champions.

The National High School Rodeo Association crowned winners in 12 events on Saturday night -- and three of them were from Utah. Hadlock combined three near-perfect scores to take the cutting horse title. Cannon dragged down his final quarry in just over eight seconds to jump from fourth to first place in tie-down roping.

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(Photo courtesy of Julie Rhodes) (From left) Mike Rhodes and Jason Burton help Taye Eshetu Alagaw, who is believed to be about 19, with the movement of his crippled right hand at Where Love Is, a boys shelter, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Liberty woman's belief in miracles saves Ethiopian teen

Matthew D. LaPlante Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 18, 2011 - 8:22am

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The walls are crumbling plaster. The roof is canvas and mud. A plastic washtub, half full of grimy water, sits under a rickety rack of shelves. It is four paces one way, five paces the next, over benches and beds and a small stack of beat-up books. It is dark and dirty and smells of the chickens and cows that trot about in the courtyard next door.

But for Taye Eshetu Alagaw, this was home. And it might as well have been a castle.