KCYN-KCPX News Thursday 28 June 2012
>>Police Investigating Death Of Man Found In Jordan River

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Police recovered a man's body from the Jordan River Wednesday. But just what led to the death of Francisco Perez Cruz remained unclear. A maintenance worker cleaning up trash along the river spotted what looked like a body and called police around 8:30 a.m. Cruz's body appeared to have been in the water for one or two days. An autopsy is planned.
NEW HARMONY, Washington County — Multiple fires have been reported in central and southern Utah, with structures and communities in danger.
An out of control fire is burning
Evacuations have been reported for residents in the immediate fire threat area, including Bumblebee, the Kolob Section of Zion National Park and parts of New Harmony.
SCOFIELD - A fire that is thought to have been started by lightning Tuesday has now forced the evacuation of the town of Scofield, as well as a nearby Scout camp where 300 Scouts were camping Wednesday morning.
It has burned about 19,000 acres.
>>Fast-Moving Wildfire Forces Evacuation Of Oak City

(Oak City, UT) -- A quick-moving wildfire forced the evacuation of the entire town of Oak City on Wednesday. Fire officials say the fire broke out at about 2:30 p.m. High winds fed the flames, which quickly spread to nearby homes. The Clay Springs Fire has already burned more than one-thousand acres. The 800-plus residents were evacuated to the Delta LDS Stake Center.

>>Ex-Cedar Hills Mayor Faces Felony Charge

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The former mayor of the Utah County town of Cedar Hills is facing a federal bank fraud charge. Eric A. Richardson resigned Monday but gave no reason. On Wednesday a felony information was filed in federal court in Salt Lake City alleging he defrauded HeritageWest Credit Union. Officials say he helped file a vehicle loan application containing false information with the intention of skimming off some of it for personal use.


>>West Jordan Six-Year-Old Was Sexually Assaulted, Murdered

(West Jordan, UT) -- Police say a six-year-old West Jordan girl found in a canal near her home Tuesday was sexually assaulted and murdered. An autopsy indicated that someone killed Sierra Newbold and that she had been sexually assaulted. Police would not say how the child was killed or what information led them to classify the death as a homicide. The child's parents reported her missing Tuesday morning, and police discovered the girl's body in a canal near the house.

>>County Mayor Primary Race Headed For Recount

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Mark Crockett is the Republican nominee for Salt Lake County mayor for now. But the Holladay businessman's 239-vote win over West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder appears headed toward a recount. Absentee and provisional ballots that were completed in time but not counted by Tuesday night seem unlikely to widen the margin of victory enough (to 724 votes, one for each precinct in the county) to avoid a recount. The winner will face Democrat Ben McAdams in the November general election.

>>Provo Tops Forbes List Of Best Places For Business, Careers

(Provo, UT) -- Forbes Magazine ranks Provo as the best place for business and careers in the country. According to "Forbes," the 16-billion-dollar economy is thriving largely on the back of Brigham Young University. The school provides a stabilizing presence as the third largest private college by enrollment in the U.S. Job growth was a robust three percent in the Provo metro in 2011, third best in the U.S. It enjoys the lowest violent crime rate in the U.S. and ranks tenth lowest overall for crime, including property crime.
>>Utah County Has Eleven Of State's 12 Fastest-Growing Cities

(Undated) -- Utah County is having quite a growth spurt. Eleven of Utah's 12 fastest-growing cities are in Utah County, and the 12th could be considered a Utah County suburb. City population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau show the fastest-growing community in the state is Heber City, that unofficial Utah County suburb. The next eleven, Saratoga Springs, Spanish Fork, Highland, Eagle Mountain, Springville, Pleasant Grove, Lehi, Lindon, Payson, American Fork, and Orem, are all in Utah County.

>>UVU Childcare Center Receives $1-Million Donation

(Orem, UT) -- Utah Valley University's highly regarded childcare center is growing, thanks to a one-million-dollar donation. UVU announced yesterday that author, speaker and nonprofit foundation CEO Barbara Barrington Jones has donated a million dollars to expand the university's Wee Care Center. UVU President Matthew Holland says lack of access to daycare is one of the greatest barriers to women completing college. Earlier this year Holland and his wife launched a two-point-two-million-dollar campaign to expand the Wee Care Center.

>>Air Force Spending $150-Million To Clear Munitions From Utah Lands

(Undated) -- The Air Force is spending more than 150-million dollars over the next 20 years to clear dangerous munitions from public lands in western Utah. The shells, rockets, and rusting inert bombs are on public land bordering the Utah Test and Training Range. They didn't pose much threat to people for decades because few people went into those areas. Nowadays, however, many people ride ATVs and dirt bikes through craters where the munitions were dumped and partially destroyed in the decade after World War Two.

>>Elizabeth Smart Endorses Phone App For Emergencies

(Undated) -- Elizabeth Smart is endorsing a phone app she says might have saved her from being kidnapped a decade ago. The Hero App, developed by Apptooth, provides users with a button that shares instant video, audio, and GPS coordinates to social network friends. It's designed to be used in emergencies and can be downloaded for free for iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Android. Smart was 14 years old when Brian David Mitchell kidnapped her from her bedroom in 2002 and held her captive for nine months. He's serving a life sentence.

>>West Jordan In Top Ten U.S. Soccer Cities

(West Jordan, UT) -- West Jordan is one of the ten best soccer cities in the U.S., according to new rankings. The survey conducted by the website livability.com ranks communities based on the quality of youth programs, facilities, park systems and other recreational features in small and medium-sized cities. West Jordan is recognized for amenities including the Utah Soccer Complex, which has 20 fields and nearby Rio Tinto Stadium, where professional Major League Soccer's Real Salt Lake plays its home games. The livability.com survey ranks West Jordan the eighth-best soccer city in the country.

>>Most Americans OK Ending Saturday Mail, Poll Says

(Undated) -- The vast majority of Americans support the Postal Service's plan to stop delivering mail on Saturdays, according to a new poll. The "New York Times"/CBS News poll finds that about seven in ten people say doing away with Saturday delivery in order to help the post office trim billions of dollars in debt is a good idea. The Postal Service is losing 36-million-dollars a day. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says the poll confirms that Americans support the Postal Service's plans for getting its finances in order.

Patients at Utah’s two largest hospital chains, Intermountain Healthcare and University Health Care, would be protected from abusive debt-collection practices under proposed rules issued late last week by the U.S. Treasury Department.
The draft rules apply to half the nation’s 5,754 hospitals, those classified as charitable nonprofits. They flow from a little-known section of federal health reform but come in the wake of allegations that a Chicago-based debt-collection firm, Accretive Health, placed bedside bill collectors in nonprofit hospitals in Minnesota, causing some emergency patients to think they would be denied treatment.
　
　east of New Harmony, with multiple structures and homes in risk of fire danger. There has already been one structure lost to the fire.