KCYN-KCPX News  Friday June 15, 2012

>>Former Utah Reporter Killed In Bike Accident
(Anniston, AL) -- A former Utah reporter has died in an Alabama bicycle accident. Thirty-seven year-old Derek Thomas Jensen was hit by a truck early yesterday morning in the town of Anniston. He died nearly an hour later. Jensen spent five years as a police reporter with the "Deseret News," and was working with FEMA's Center for Domestic Preparedness at Fort McClellan. He's survived by a wife and three children.

>>Court Orders New Trial For Doctor

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Utah's Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a Cache County doctor accused of fondling his female patients. Fifty-one year-old Raymond Bedell was convicted in 2007, but police told jurors they were investigating allegations made by nine other women. The appeals court said the comments could have prejudiced the jury, and Bedell's attorney should have lodged an objection. Prosecutors are considering an appeal to the state Supreme Court.

>>Hatch Rolls Out Million Dollar Ad Blitz

(Washington, DC) -- Senator Orrin Hatch is rolling out a major TV and radio campaign. The "Salt Lake Tribune" says the Republican lawmaker will spend one-million dollars on media buys. His primary challenger, Dan Liljenquist, is spending about 152-thousand dollars. While Hatch has raised nearly ten-million dollars, Liljenquist has nearly 800-thousand dollars, with half coming from his own pocket.

>>Player Pianos For Downtown Salt Lake

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Don't be surprised if you feel the need to tickle the ivories in downtown Salt Lake City. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is setting up ten player pianos on downtown sidewalks, with signs that read "play me." There will also be a blog to post your pictures and videos at the keyboard. The "Play Me, I'm Yours" project kicks off today, and continues for the next two weeks.

>>West Valley City In Line For 200 New Jobs
(West Valley City, UT) -- An online health insurance broker is bringing more than 200 jobs to West Valley City. EHealth, Incorporated just announced it's setting up operations in the Lake Pointe business area and will hire more than 200 full-time and seasonal workers as it expands Medicare sales and customer care operations in Utah. EHealth, Inc. is the parent company of eHealthInsurance, which is an online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses.

(Panguitch, UT) -- The former Public Defender for Garfield County is accused of extorting money and personal property from people the county paid him to defend. Attorney John Hummel is charged with more than a half-dozen felonies for allegedly getting defendants to give him money and personal property for defending them. Hummel will be in court next week.

>>War On Weeds Escalates In Western Utah

(Undated) -- State, federal, and private agriculture specialists are stepping up their war on invasive weeds in western Utah. They'll be using chemical sprays and a host of insects in their effort to wipeout a strain of knapweed that chokes out native vegetation and provides fuel for wildfires. The Utah Legislature provided a million dollars to battle the knapweed. That money will be available July 1st.

>>Millcreek Festival Set For Saturday

(Millcreek, UT) -- The seventh annual Millcreek Township Venture Outdoor Festival has enough planned to fill all day and most of the night on Saturday. So-called pre-festival events that begin at eight a.m. include the Millcreek Canyon hike, Playworks, Volksmarch and a basic volleyball clinic. The festival officially begins at three Saturday afternoon at Canyon Rim Park, with games, demonstrations, live entertainment, and food. Also on Saturday, the Millcreek Bike Safety Rodeo begins at nine a.m. at Big Cottonwood Park.

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal agents drove a Blanding Utah doctor to suicide after interrogating him and searching his house for an ancient artifact they never found, his family's lawyers argued Thursday in a wrongful-death case against the government.
The U.S. Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge
Dr. James Redd, 60, killed himself a day after his arrest
The family says the government agents can’t properly identify alleged evidence, manufactured evidence, used excessive force, abused their powers and illegally confiscated the family's personal belongings. They're demanding the government return family photos, Dr. Redd's personal diary, banking records, a telephone, three digital cameras and other items.
"They took everything in the house except for furniture and clothes," said Shandor Badaruddin, a lawyer from Missoula, Mont., who represents the family.
After his death, according to the lawsuit, a BLM agent told Jeanne Redd and her daughter that Dr. Redd "took one for the team" by killing himself.
During the search of the house, the Redds were shackled by the legs and hands with chains linking leg irons and hand iron to a chain belt around the waist. Allegedly, one agent told Mrs. Redd during the search… “This is the worst day of your life…it will be like someone died.” Another agent is said to have told Dr Redd that he would never practice medicine again.
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　Ted Stewart to throw out the lawsuit, saying federal agencies were protected by immunity in the sweeping investigation into the trafficking of American Indian artifacts allegedly taken from federal and tribal lands. In 2009, federal agents swept up 26 defendants in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.