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TOP: Youth soccer referee Eulogio Alejandre (left) shakes hands with players after a match at Mount Ogden Park in Ogden on Saturday. Alejandre, who has 29 years of referee experience, says he has taken steps to protect his volunteer staff from violence on the field. (REYNALDO LEAL/Standard-Examiner)

Ref's death leads to worry about sports violence; many say parents key in modeling proper behavior

Last updated Monday, May 13, 2013 - 2:29pm

The sun beat down from a cloudless sky Saturday afternoon during a youth soccer game at McCall Field Park in Roy, and cheers from parents cascaded in intermittently from the sidelines as the action on the field intensified in waves, then receded.

Doubtless, similar scenes were playing out on thousands of fields across the country.

But for some parents at the park in Roy, the impact of the recent death of soccer referee Ricardo Portillo loitered in the air. Portillo died May 4, a week after a yellow-carded 17-year-old player allegedly punched him in the head in Taylorsville.

It was a chilling reminder, the parents said, of the violence that has embedded itself in youth sports.

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Gun violence makes sharp decline

Jerry Markon The Washington Post

Last updated Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 12:11pm

WASHINGTON — Gun violence has dropped dramatically nationwide over the past two decades, but nearly three-quarters of all homicides are still committed with a firearm, the Justice Department said in a report released Tuesday.

The report, by the department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, painted an encouraging picture of long-term trends at a time of divisive political debate over guns and legislation to regulate them. Firearms-related homicides declined 39 percent between 1993 and 2011, the report said, while nonfatal firearms crimes fell 69 percent during that period.

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Talk takes on media, social violence

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 5:35pm

OGDEN — Weber State University on Thursday will offer a lecture, “The Terminator and Spectator: Does Media Violence Cause Societal Violence.”

Brad Bushman, Ohio State University professor of communication and psychology, will give the free talk at 7 p.m. in the Dumke Legacy Hall of the Hurst Center.

For more information, call 801-626-6232 or email francisharrold@weber.edu.

Weber State is at 3848 Harrison Blvd.

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Taylor Chivers, of Top Gun Arms, shows a Para 1911 45 caliber to Chad Larsen during the Rocky Mountain Gun Show Sunday, March 3, 2013, in Sandy, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Violent gun crime down. Are more guns the reason?

Marc Fisher The Washington Post

Last updated Monday, March 4, 2013 - 2:33pm

WASHINGTON — Back in the crack-infused 1980s, young men with guns and drugs ruled the single block of Hanover Place NW in Washington, D.C. People who lived in the two-story rowhouses one mile north of the Capitol fell asleep year round to the sounds of the Fourth of July, a pop-pop-pop that they hoped was firecrackers. It rarely was.

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Guns and play part of childhood for many boys

Eli Saslow The Washington Post

Last updated Friday, March 1, 2013 - 12:39pm

MOUNT AIRY, Md. — Chanse Mullinix arrived home from fourth grade on the school bus, carrying a Cherry Coke and a plastic bag of his classmates’ handmade valentines. He shouted goodbye to the bus driver - “See ya!” — and ran down the sidewalk, because a youth football coach had recommended once that he run everywhere. He climbed the steps to a two-story townhouse — the only home he had ever known, and the place he sometimes referred to as a “great gun museum.”

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Utah bill would create dating violence protection

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 15, 2013 - 3:24pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is closer to extending violence protection to people in dating relationships.

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Employers urged to have plan for workplace violence

Gabrielle Banks The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 4:11pm

Schaun D. Henry was leading an onsite training session on violence prevention in the workplace when a stranger barged into the room, headed straight for him and threatened: “I have a gun.”

The participants looked shaken as they sat frozen in place -- until Henry, a partner at the Harrisburg, Pa., law firm of McNees Wallace & Nurick, explained that the assailant was actually his colleague and the exercise was meant to illustrate the lack of a contingency plan.

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Matheson wants to require video game ratings

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 8:51am

SALT LAKE CITY -- U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson has resurrected legislation that would require ratings on video games and vendors to check the identification of those purchasing video games with adult or mature content.

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Nehemiah Griego, 15, is seen in an undated photo provided by the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Deptartment. Griego is charged with killing five family members on Jan. 19, 2013, including his father, mother, and three youngest siblings in Albuquerque, N.M. Authorities in New Mexico say Griego had reloaded his guns after the attacks and planned to go to a Wal-Mart and randomly shoot people. Instead, they say he texted a picture of his dead mother to his 12-year-old girlfriend, then spent much of Saturday with her. The two went to the church where his father had been a pastor, and Griego eventually confessed to killing his parents and three younger siblings. (AP Photo/Bernalillo County Sheriff's Deptartment)

Teen who shot, killed family liked violent video games

Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 5:32pm

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico teenager accused of gunning down five family members over the weekend ambushed his father as he returned home from an overnight shift at a rescue mission, then reloaded his rifles and planned to go to a Wal-Mart and randomly shoot people, authorities said Tuesday.

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Newtown parents launch initiative to curb gun violence

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 14, 2013 - 6:08pm

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Parents of children slain in the Connecticut school massacre held photos of their sons and daughters, cried, hugged and spoke in quavering voices as they called for a national dialogue to help prevent similar tragedies.

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A Filipino resident,right bottom, drinks from a broken hose as others salvage belongings after a fire hit a slum area in suburban San Juan, east of Manila, Philippines on Christmas day Tuesday Dec. 25, 2012. Fire Officer 2 Noel Binwag said about 2,000 families were left homeless during the fire. Six people also died when a row of apartments went up in flames in a separate fire in suburan Quezon city. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Violence erupts as blaze ravages shantytown

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - 10:41am

MANILA, Philippines — Angry residents beat a man to death and threw rocks at firefighters after a shantytown fire left thousands of people homeless, and another Christmas Day blaze in the Philippine capital left seven people dead, officials said Wednesday.

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The National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre gestures as he speaks about the violent online video game "Kindergarten Killers", left, during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington. The National Rifle Association broke its silence Friday on last week's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 children and staff dead. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Newtown kids pledge to toss violent video games, movies

Thomas Hargrove Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Friday, December 21, 2012 - 3:43pm

WASHINGTON — The school massacre in Newtown, Conn., has renewed discussions -- and perennial disagreements -- among politicians and researchers about how violent movies and video games affect the nation’s youth.

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Violent programs canceled, delayed after Newtown shooting

Edmund Lee Bloomberg News

Last updated Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 11:26am

NEW YORK - Movie studios and television programmers have postponed or canceled violent films and TV shows after a shooting left 20 children and six adults dead in a Connecticut elementary school last week.

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Exposure to violence physically ages children, study says

Eryn Brown Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 11:32am

Children who are exposed to violence experience wear and tear to their DNA that is similar to that seen in aging, according to a new study that may help explain why they face a heightened risk of mental and physical disorders as adults.

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Egyptian protesters shout anti-military council slogans in front of a banner showing Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, left, carrying ousted President Hosni Mubarak, during a demonstration at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday April 20, 2012. Tens of thousands of protesters packed Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest demonstration in months against the ruling military, aimed at stepping up pressure on the generals to hand over power to civilians and bar ex-regime members from running in upcoming presidential elections. Arabic on the banner reads, "Tantawi and Mubarak are one hand." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)Egyptian protesters attend Friday prayers during a rally at Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt Friday, April 20, 2012. Tens of thousands of protesters packed Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest demonstration in months against the ruling military, aimed at stepping up pressure on the generals to hand over power to civilians and bar ex-regime members from running in upcoming presidential elections.(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Tens of thousands protest military's rule in Egypt

Aya Batrawy The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 9:20am

CAIRO -- Tens of thousands of protesters packed Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest demonstration in months against the ruling military, aimed at stepping up pressure on the generals to hand over power to civilians and bar ex-regime members from running in upcoming presidential elections.

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