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An aggressive environmental group is losing a lawyer and KSL TV is losing a political reporter as a Utah power couple head to Colorado.
Heidi McIntosh, John Daley and their 9-year-old daughter plan to relocate sometime this holiday season after McIntosh accepted a job as the managing attorney for Earthjustice’s Denver office, where she will lead a team of litigators focused on environmental issues throughout the Intermountain West.
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A planned three hour power outage in Moab early this morning, lasted a little more than an hour..much to the delight of local law enforcement and operators of all night businesses. Rocky Mountain Power did planned maintenance on a substation near Moab.
>>Taking A Bite Out Of Crime Statistics

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Crime statistics are on the decline around the U.S. and in Utah. The FBI's annual Crime in the U.S. Report found violent crimes fell four-percent last year while property crimes fell one-percent. In Utah, violent crimes dropped more than seven-percent, with the exception of homicides which rose two-percent. Utah property crimes were down more than five-percent in 2011.

>>Report Calls Utah's Teachers Union 'Weak'

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A new report finds Utah's teachers union one of the weakest in the nation. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington, DC think-tank, released its new study of teachers union across the country. It ranks Utah's union 39th and labels it "weak." The report said the low ranking reflects the union's poor resources, membership and perceived influence.

>>Activist Jailed For Assault On Girlfriend

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- An environmental activist in Utah is sentenced to jail for a 2008 assault. Jeffrey Salt says he acted in self-defense when he tried to break up with his girlfriend. A judge ordered Salt to spend 90 days in jail.

>>SLC Volunteer Heads East To Hurricane

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Volunteers from Utah are heading east to help those effected by Hurricane Sandy. A volunteer worker from the Salt Lake City Red Cross said they'll stay to help in Albany, New York for about three-weeks. Power's been lost to more than two-million people along the east coast due to the storm and some areas are experiencing heavy floods.
>>LDS Church Helps With Storm Relief

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is doing what it can to help super-storm Sandy victims. A warehouse in Maryland is stocked with food and emergency supplies for residents in the hardest hit areas. Both members and non-members are encouraged to seek help. The LDS church is also organizing a website where volunteers can sign up to help with the relief efforts.

>Fugitive Wanted For Deadly Shooting Turns Himself In

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A fugitive wanted for a deadly shooting at a west Salt Lake party is behind bars. Police say Phillip James Lucero turned himself in yesterday afternoon after the incident over the weekend. His photo and a description had been published by many news organizations. Authorities suspect Lucero shot 20-year-old Valentin Sigala, Jr. to death early Sunday morning.
(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Utah Democrats are telling voters if they choose Senator Orrin Hatch, they will be voting for death. The party sent a news release today saying Hatch took campaign donations from 12 of the 13 corporations the website brainz.org lists as the world's most deadly. The group claims Hatch voted in ways that favored those corporations. Hatch's campaign manager told the "Salt Lake Tribune" Hatch's Democratic opponent Scott Howell and his Democratic friends are losing their "grip on reality."

WEST POINT — A West Point man is in serious condition after a pickup he was working on fell on top of him when the jack he was using failed.
The 42-year-old male, whose name has not been released, was working between the wheel and the left fender of the truck with the vehicle jacked when the vehicle fell on top of him.
Travis Fausett, who was working on the car with the man, said the two had the truck jacked up, but it "slipped off somehow" and pinned him.
　
NEW YORK - Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.
Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta planned Sunday night to cancel all flights into and out of three area airports in New York
Utahans are stuck on the East Coast because of cancelled flights and there are visitors to Utah stuck here as well. The frustrating part for everyone is not knowing when they'll get home. Here in Utah, every major airline listed cancellations for Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Boston, and Washington.
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Utah’s texting-while-driving law has been called one of the toughest in the nation.
The class C misdemeanor charge can be heightened to a class B misdemeanor or even a third-degree felony if the offender causes bodily harm or death while texting and driving.
But prosecutors say the narrow construction of the 2009 law has made it almost impossible to get convictions.
But an amended version of the law, which took effect May 8, makes it illegal to be doing anything on a hand-held wireless communication device except making or receiving a call, or using GPS navigation.
That means a driver may not use a cellphone to send data, read a text, use an app or view an image. And that should make it easier for prosecutors to prove cases in which such devices are suspected to have distracted a driver.
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