SPORTS
February 9, 1992 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Neil Roberts resigned as basketball coach at Southern Utah, four days after he was arrested for allegedly shoplifting a necktie. Roberts, 46, was arrested Tuesday and charged with misdemeanor theft at a department store in Moscow, Idaho. He said he inadvertently walked out with the tie after buying a dress shirt. Roberts posted bail and coached Southern Utah against Idaho that night.
NEWS
July 2, 1996
Burch Mann, 87, founder and director of the American Folk Ballet. She was brought up in the Midwest and moved to New York in 1928 to study ballet. She began her career as a choreographer for nightclubs there in the 1930s and later worked in the same capacity for films and television. In 1962, Mann established the folk dance troupe called American Folk Ballet and toured internationally with it.
SPORTS
July 1, 1987 | Associated Press
Bob Schermerhorn, the head coach at Southern Utah State University the past four seasons, has been hired as an assistant basketball coach at Arizona State, school officials announced Tuesday. He previously coached at UC Irvine, Chaffey College and Canyon High School in Anaheim. The addition of Schermerhorn, 44, completes the Sun Devils' staff under Coach Steve Patterson.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 15, 1996 | BRETT ANTHONY COLLINS, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
A memorial service will be held Saturday for Brent Leon Richey, a law student and business owner who was among the 230 passengers and crew members who perished when TWA Flight 800 crashed off Long Island, N.Y., last month. Richey, who turned 26 the day before the crash, was traveling to Europe with his fiancee, Seana Anderson. The couple lived together in Van Nuys and had planned to wed in Italy.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 18, 2000
Each year, high school students who lead their classes in the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys are honored as valedictorians. A variety of criteria are used to choose the students, but basically, they are the best and brightest at their schools. Several of them share their thoughts as they embark on their journeys into adulthood. Melissa Hwang, Chatsworth School: Bishop Alemany High GPA: 4.
NATIONAL
August 31, 2003 | David Kelly, Times Staff Writer
Each year when summer ends and the tourists leave, the economy plummets in this little town nestled among the crimson cliffs and twisted juniper of southwest Utah. That gave Mayor Gerald Sherratt an idea. He decided to boost off-season revenue with a festival of feasts, shows and pageantry based upon its Viking heritage. And he didn't let the lack of that heritage stand in the way.