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24 February, 2010 05:54
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House backs ban on smoking in car with young children
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Utah lawmakers on Tuesday passed a proposed ban on smoking in a vehicle in which children are riding. HB82, sponsored by Rep. Jay Seegmiller, D-Sandy, would bar smoking in the vehicle when a child younger than 8 and requiring a restraining device is present. The proposed penalty is a $45 ticket. Several lawmakers argued passionately for keeping children...
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24 February, 2010 05:54
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Rolly: Subtle legislative messages
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This is definitely the year of message bills at the Utah Legislature. There are resolutions declaring state sovereignty, and proposals for Utah to opt out of federal gun regulations, government health care reform and global warming legislation. And, not so coincidentally, it's an election year. But besides the obvious messages declaring the federal...
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24 February, 2010 05:54
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Money fight between Jordan and Canyons continues
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Parents from the Jordan and Canyons school districts are mobilizing for a showdown today that strikes at the core of issues that have been brewing for years. Each side is hoping to make its voice heard at a committee meeting where lawmakers will consider a bill, HB292, that would shift about $15 million from Canyons to Jordan by bringing property...
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24 February, 2010 05:54
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Ethics commission bill clears Senate
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Three ethics bills cleared the Senate with unanimous approval Tuesday and now head to the House for their consideration. The main one, sponsored by Sen. John Valentine, R-Orem and the senate's other 28 members as co-sponsors, SJR3 would set the structure and rules for a new independent ethics commission that would screen complaints against lawmakers...
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24 February, 2010 05:54
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House passes canal management bill
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The state would encourage canal companies to create management plans for risky stretches of canals but shield those plans from public scrutiny under a bill that passed the Utah House on Tuesday. Rep. Fred Hunsaker, R-Logan, said the substitute version of his bill, HB60, could help prevent canal failures like the one that killed a mother and her two...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Signature-removal bill advances in Utah Senate
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Sen. Howard Stephenson's bill that would streamline removal of signatures from initiative petitions advanced Tuesday in the Senate after a fierce debate that revealed a partisan split. Stephenson, R-Draper, argued it is easy to sign a petition in a grocery store parking lot without reading the details. So it should be just as simple, he added, to...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Police identify South Salt Lake homicide victim
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Steven Leon Villiard Steven Leon Villiard spent years entangled in the drug world before he died Monday of a single gunshot wound at his South Salt Lake home. The 64-year-old man's body was discovered by a relative near 75 E. and Claybourne Avenue (2700 South) around 1:10 p.m., and South Salt Lake police classified the death as a homicide. On Tuesday,...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Police: Provo woman raped, strangled by nephew
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Damien Allister Candland Evidence from the crime scene and an autopsy are painting a horrific picture in the slaying of a Provo woman, allegedly by her nephew. Provo police Capt. Cliff Argyle said Tuesday that detectives found a roll of duct tape in the house of Amy Candland, 41, that appeared to be the same type used to bind her wrists. Candland's...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Utah House votes to curb stream access
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The Utah House has voted to restrict public access to streams that cross private property except where anglers and others can prove a continuous use has existed for at least 10 years. The bill, a substitute version of HB141, responds to a 2008 Utah Supreme Court ruling that said state law gives access to public waters. Representatives who supported...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Utahn says agents misled him in artifact case
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A suspect in the Four Corners artifacts-trafficking case says evidence gathered against him the morning of his arrest last summer should be thrown out because federal agents failed to properly inform him of his civil rights. Testifying Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart, Blanding resident and high school teacher David Lacy described the...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Photo exhibit show early days of Zion National Park
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Like water to a fish or soil to a tree, so cameras have been to Zion National Park for more than 100 years. The camera's love affair with the towering sandstone cliffs of the southern Utah park is on display now at an exhibit of digitally enhanced photographs at the Bingham Gallery in Mount Carmel in Kane County. The photographs, selected from a...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Former Utah jailer must pay almost $1.5 million for raping inmate
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Louis J. Poleate was convicted of rape for attacking a prisoner in 2002, but a judge awarded that inmate nearly $1.5 million in a civil suit on Tuesday. A federal judge has ordered a former prison guard to pay almost $1.5 million to an inmate whom he "brutally and viciously" raped for an hour and a half while she was in shackles. In an order handed...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Cardinal tells BYU: We must work together for religious liberty
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Provo » A Roman Catholic cardinal told a huge audience Tuesday at Brigham Young University that Mormons and Catholics must strive together to proclaim truth even as pressures mount to exclude religion from the public square. Nearly 12,000 students and faculty gathered at BYU's Marriott Center to hear Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of the...
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24 February, 2010 01:24
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Utah A.G. may gain broader power to demand Internet, cell-phone records
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A proposal that would broaden the power of the Attorney General's Office to demand Internet and cell phone companies turn over information about customers won broad approval Tuesday from a Utah House committee. HB150, sponsored by Rep. Brad Daw, R-Orem, would grant prosecutors the ability to obtain an administrative subpoena, compelling Internet and...
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23 February, 2010 17:58
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Utah Health Exchange: Plan for statewide adjuster draws stern opposition
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Utah lawmakers this year have spared no energy trumpeting their dislike for federal health reform, passing bills asserting states' right to govern themselves. But Utah's own health care fix, an online insurance market called the Utah Health Exchange, has gotten off to a wobbly start. And legislation to repair it, sponsored by Republican House Speaker...
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23 February, 2010 17:58
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Biologists find three dead condors
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Three rare California condors, two of which spent a great deal of time foraging in southern Utah, died recently due to lead poisoning. These are the first confirmed lead poisoning deaths in three years. According to The Peregrine Fund, necropsies to determine the cause of death were performed at the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research....
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23 February, 2010 07:00
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AG seeks authority to access Internet, cell phone records
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The Utah attorney general is seeking a dramatic expansion of his office's power to compel Internet and cell phone providers to turn over the identities of customers suspected of committing a crime. But many legislators are unconvinced that the broad new powers are necessary, and one former intelligence officer says the unchecked subpoena authority...
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23 February, 2010 07:00
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Police let fugitives go
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Police were in arm's length of the suspects in the slaying of a Millard County sheriff's deputy when an officer told the men to evacuate the Salt Lake City neighborhood where they were hiding. Shirley Cleverly said she and her two sons did not know that Roberto Miramontes Roman and Ruben Chavez-Reyes were fugitives when they followed police orders...
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23 February, 2010 03:07
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Intoxicated minors need not fear to call for help, says Senate panel
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A Senate committee gave a unanimous thumbs-up to a bill that would give consideration for good behavior to an intoxicated minor who calls for emergency medical care for another underage drinker. HB277 seeks to prevent situations like that of Michael Starks, the Utah State University freshman who died during a hazing incident in 2009 due to alcohol...
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