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>>Utah's Largest Gas Refinery Gets Approval For Expansion

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Utah's largest gas refinery is getting approval for a small expansion. The "Salt Lake Tribune" reports the Tesoro refinery will be allowed to expand to increase daily production by four-thousand barrels. The refinery already produces about 58-thousand barrels per day. The approval process did reveal that the additional capacity would create more of the type of pollution that plagues the valley each summer and winter.

>>BYU Study: Exercise Decreases Interest In Food

(Provo, UT) -- Researchers at BYU have come up with another good reason to exercise. They tell the "Deseret News" their study showed that people who exercise for 45 minutes on a treadmill had less interest in food afterward. After the exercise, participants were wired up for a brain scan and showed pictures of food. The difference in interest was the same among obese and thin people.

>>Layton Man Arrested For Threatening Repo Man

(Layton, UT) -- A Layton man is in jail, and he's not going to have his car much longer either. Police tell the "Salt Lake Tribune" a repo man with a tow truck went to claim a Honda along Meadow Way Drive early yesterday morning. The driver says a man came outside the home with a gun and fired it into the air. The driver dropped the car and left after the gun was pointed at him.

>>BYU Caffeine Facebook Page Shut Down

(Provo, UT) -- A BYU student is shutting down his Facebook page called "BYU for Caffeine." He tells KSTU-TV he originally created the page to gauge interest. After the LDS Church recently clarified its stance on hot drinks but not caffeine, it was suggested that BYU could start serving caffeinated sodas on campus. The student says he shut down the page because of the heated opinions from both sides, and he didn't like what he called the "general animosity" it created.

>>City: Santa Clara Floods Do $4-Million In Damages

(Santa Clara, UT) -- Nearly four-million-dollars in property damages are suffered in the recent flooding in Santa Clara. City officials presented the preliminary cost estimate yesterday. A surge of water and mud overtook dozens of homes there leaving extensive damages. Sixty-one homes in all suffered damage. Officials say the final estimates may even be higher.

>>Wildlife Officials Start Fish Kill In Daggett Co.

(Daggett County, UT) -- Utah wildlife officials are killing some state fish populations on purpose to make way for one special species. At Spirit Lake in the northeast-Utah county of Daggett state and federal officials say they're killing every non-native fish there with the hope the native "cutthroat" trout will make a strong return. Cutthroat trout inhabits less than 15-percent its original range in Lakes throughout Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Officials say they used a small amount of rotenone in the fork of the Sheep Creek drainage to initiate the fish kill.

>>Egyptian Diplomat Talks MidEast Peace In Salt Lake

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- World-renowned Egyptian diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei is welcomed yesterday in Salt Lake City where discusses Middle East peace. ElBaradei is the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Speaking before a group of students from the University of Utah he said getting the delicate Middle East in balance will come down to communication and not military might. ElBaradei, said, quote, "this is because security is not a matter of 'weapons, it's whether countries believe they can live together in peace."

>>Missile Contrail Spotted In Vegas

(Gallup, NM) -- Early risers in the Vegas Valley witnessed a missile test contrail from New Mexico. Officials with the White Sands Missile Range conducted the test on a PAC-3 missile from Fort Wingate early yesterday morning. A Juno missile was used as a target, and the result was a "light show" that could be seen from Southern Nevada, Phoenix and Salt Lake City. Officials say the test "performed as expected." It was the 14th time a large ballistic target missile was fired from Fort Wingate since 1998.