KCYN-KCPX News 26July2012

Utah Gun Sales Rise After Colorado Movie Theater Shooting

(Undated) -- Utah is joining a growing list of states that are seeing an increase in gun sales in the days after a gunman killed a dozen people in a crowded Colorado movie theater. According to the "Deseret News," the state saw a ten-percent increase in background checks on Friday and Saturday and up to a 40-percent spike Monday. A gun store manager in Ogden claims his gun sales have gone up 70-percent since Friday and over the past two days, he's seen double the number of online orders.

PAGE, Ariz. — Controversy is boiling over the West's biggest coal-fired power plant, located just south of the Utah-Arizona border near the shores of Lake Powell.
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A shutdown of the plant would put nearly 1,000 people out of work on the Navajo Indian Reservation that is already deeply mired in unemployment and poverty.
　
(Moab Utah)- A Moab resident didn’t mow the grass in his backyard. Police say it was potentially worth an illicit fortune.
This particular growth consisted of marijuana plants, some 11 feet high, that the Moab Area Narcotics Enforcement Team estimates would have brought $430,000 on the streets, if it had been harvested .
During a search warrant raid early last Friday morning on the home, which is adjacent to the Scott L. Matheson Wetlands Preserve, Moab police and Grand County sheriff’s deputies seized 45 plants — and arrested 51-year-old WQilliam Randall. He facea potential charges of marijuana cultivation and possession, as well as possession of hashish and methamphetamine, being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of synthetic narcotics.
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The Grand County Council with one councilmember absent, tied 3 to 3 and therefore, rejected a candidate for the Administrators job asking for a 10- thousand increase from the 75-thousand dollar offer the county had made. Altho no conter offer was amde, the candidate still has the option of accepting the job at the 75-thousand dollar level.
　
>>Police Looking For Rapist Who Pretended To Have Car Trouble

(Orem, UT) -- Orem Police are on the lookout for a man who raped a woman after pretending to have car trouble in the parking lot of a movie theater. Police tell the "Salt Lake Tribune" the woman had just left the Cinemark theater on 800 East when she saw a man with a flashlight standing next to a pickup truck with the hood raised. She offered to help and that's when police say he handed her the flashlight and slammed her head into the side of the truck.

>>Ruling Soon On Motion To Dismss Challenge To Bigamy Law

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A federal judge is promising to decide as soon as possible whether to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges Utah's bigamy law. The lawsuit was filed by the polygamous Utah County family featured in the "Sister Wives" reality TV show. A federal prosecutor stressed in court yesterday that the state already chooses not to prosecute consenting, polygamous adults. The state wants the suit dismissed. Kody Brown and his four wives did not appear in court yesterday. They moved to Nevada after their TV show premiered and said yesterday in a statement they plan to stay there.

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A conservative group of lawmakers holding a national conference this week in Salt Lake City say they won't be intimidated by threats from liberals. The "Tribune" is reporting the American Legislative Exchange Council believes its members are in the sights of national critics by way of threats and letters. The groups's executive director told its members attending yesterday's conference that he knows conservative lawmakers are being quote, "attacked by leftist groups" over a variety of issues.

>>Utah Professor Receives Top Honor

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A national top honor is bestowed on a professor at the University of Utah. Chemistry professor Peter Stang has been awarded the 2013 Priestley Medal for lifetime achievement in organic chemistry. The "Tribune" says the 43-year-old professor says he gets his inspiration from Bryce Canyon for ways to better understand the study of organic molecules and how they assemble themselves.


>>Jet Ski Tumbles Onto I-15 Causing Huge Pileup

(Murray, UT) -- A man hauling a jet ski along Interstate 15 is to blame for a multi-car pileup in Murray. Troopers say the owner didn't properly tie-down his jet ski to his trailer which caused it to dump into the middle of the Interstate yesterday morning. Behind the trailer four cars crashed into each other but thankfully no injuries are reported. The jet ski owner was cited.
　Navajo Generating Station say an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to clear the air in the region's national parks may push the plant into an unacceptable financial situation. They've indicated it could force a shutdown as early as 2017.