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Welcome to Weekend Rewind, a glance back at The Tribune's news stories, top photos and opinions you may have missed over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Top stories this past weekend
Utah foreclosures ease, but glut of houses on market remains • Foreclosures are easing in Utah, but the after-effects of the housing downturn are being felt keenly by those involved with so-called distressed properties, the glut of homes pushed onto the market by the crisis.
Utah data breach no record breaker • There's been no shortage of outrage over Utah's Medicaid data breach, with some calling for employee firings or painting it as proof of government ineptitude. But security failures happen with frightening frequency, more often in the private than public sector. And Utah's was hardly tops in scope, the number of people affected, or cost.
Utahns put artistic selves into their cars • Ted Naanes' art project is four years in the making and boasts around 200 horsepower. Doug Beckstead and his family took their van — equipped with a wheelchair lift for their son — and turned it into a testament of love for the Pittsburgh Steelers. For these Utahns and many others, a car isn't just a way to get from here to there. It's also a mode for self-expression.
Utah crime lab: Evidence, frustration piling up • Ideally, Jay Henry and his staff at the State Crime Lab would take just three weeks to analyze the DNA, ballistics and fingerprint evidence that helps put criminals behind bars or exonerates the innocent. Instead, budget cuts between 2008 and 2010 reduced nearly 30 percent of the lab's funds. That, paired with a steadily increasing caseload, has pushed expected average completion times to nearly 80 days for crimes that aren't given the priority of a violent felony.
Back home, Utah 'greatest generation' vet still leads • To this day, Mark Pace remembers a lesson he learned 44 years ago from his fifth-grade teacher, David Parry. Pace went to the back of the room for a drink, and when he returned, a classmate pulled the chair out from under him. "I fell and everyone was laughing and laughing and laughing. I was humiliated." Mr. Parry didn't let it pass, but he didn't flay the prankster. "He taught us we don't treat people that way," says Pace. "He was a teacher far beyond the curriculum." Parry, now 88, is still teaching, though the World War II veteran has been out of the classroom for more than 30 years. Today, his chief lesson is about living well, well into old age.
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Other news of interest
New rules of the road in SLC's City Creek Canyon
Beethoven series boosts symphony's books
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Columns and opinions
Memorial Day • The war that defined America
Caring for children • Relatives need help from state
Helmet laws • Encourage, but don't require
Pyle: Numbers that don't add up
Follow Lee's example: Walk away from debt