KCYN-KCPX NEWS MON 8 Oct 2012


>>LDS Leader Urges Protection For Children

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- An LDS apostle is calling for everyone, including non Mormons, to protect children. Dallin H. Oaks addressed to the LDS General Conference in Salt Lake City. He told the gathering children, quote, "need decision makers who put their well being ahead of selfish adult interests. The "Salt Lake Tribune" reports Oaks says abortion is "a great evil" and says single and same-sex parenthood put kids at a disadvantage.

>>Mormon Leaders Lower Age For Becoming Missionaries

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The Mormon Church is lowering the age for young Americans to serve full-time missions in hopes of growing the Church's presence worldwide. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Thomas Monson announced that 18-year-old men and 19-year-old women from the U.S. will be eligible to serve as full-time missionaries. Mormon men in 48 countries have been eligible to serve at age 18 for about ten years, but this is the first time American Mormons will have the same opportunity. The change is effective immediately.
>>LDS Mission Requirement Benefits Student-Athletes

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The LDS Church's new minimum requirement for missionary service is having a dramatic effect on student athletes at BYU. School officials say the new requirement that missionaries be at least 18-years-old means student-athletes can depart and return sooner and play their sport of choice four straight years. BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall has nearly 40 players on mission trips in more than a dozen countries.

>>Group Calls For Monument To Submarine At Liberty Square

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The retired submarine USS Salt Lake City may find a permanent home at Library Square. The Utah Chapter of World War Two and Retired Nuclear Submarines is asking the Salt Lake City Library Board of Directors to locate the deck and the conning tower as a memorial downtown. The library board can only made a recommendation and the site has raised controversy.

>>Chase Through Salt Lake Ends In Arrests

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Two men are facing several possible charges after police chased them along Salt Lake streets and on Interstate 80 at speeds up to 120-miles-per-hour. It began Friday when a woman driving a Porsche was carjacked. The two suspects abandoned the car. One was Tasered and caught after a foot chase, and the other was found behind a shed.


>>Man Walking Through Salt Lake On Cross Country Trip

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Salt Lake City is one of the stops along a 35-hundred-mile journey for Barrett Keane. He's going from Miami, Florida across country to San Francisco and he's doing it on foot. Keane hopes to raise money for school uniforms for kids in Haiti and Uganda so they can attend school. Salt Lake is 29-hundred miles from the start and he expects to be in San Francisco by Thanksgiving. To donate or get information go to gowalkamerica.org.

>>Border Investigators: Ivie Shot By Fellow Agents

(Sierra Vista, AZ) -- The Utah-born U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in an Arizona border incident last week was fatally shot by his fellow agents. The head of the Border Patrol agents union made public yesterday the startling revelation. The union says agent Nicholas Ivie fired at two agents Tuesday, wounding one, after he mistook them for smugglers just north of the border near Bisbee, Arizona. Ivie was killed when his comrades allegedly returned fire. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano joined other high-ranking officials in meeting Ivie's family Friday to discuss the investigation. Chris Ivie tells the "Deseret News" Napolitano assured the family the incident was a, quote, "tragic accident ? nothing more."

>>General Conference Of LDS Church Ends Positively

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The 182nd Semi-annual General Conference of the LDS Church closes with the positive message from President Thomas Monson for all to, quote, "be of good cheer." The 85-year-old church leader spoke before a capacity crowd yesterday inside the 21-thousand-seat Conference Center in Salt Lake City. An estimated 100-thousand people attended the weekend church events.

>>Fire Starts In Ogden Canyon

(Ogden, UT) -- Flames break-out in Ogden Canyon on the final day of the Utah fire season. The cause remains unknown but officials say hikers were reportedly in the vicinity of yesterday afternoon's fire. It started on the side of a hiking trail. Crews were still on scene last night as flames moved eastward. About 20 acres have been burned so far.

WEST VALLEY CITY — A 20-year-old woman was killed Sunday morning in an accident on Bangerter Highway.
Yesica Moreno of West Jordan was driving northbound near 2350 South shortly before 6 a.m. when her small pickup truck crossed into southbound traffic and struck the side of a semi tractor-trailer, West Valley City Lt. Bill Merritt said.
Moreno was airlifted to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead, Merritt said. The driver of the tractor-trailer was shaken but not injured, he said.

Chilly nights are expected to continue across parts of Utah.
The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City said people living in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, along the Wasatch Front, the Western Uinta Basin, Castle Country, the San Rafael Swell, west central Utah, Sanpete and Sevier valleys and extreme southwest Wyoming can expect to see frost overnight
The weather service recommends people in those areas cover or bring in cold-sensitive plants, provide shelter for pets or bring them inside, disconnect hoses from faucets and drain and winterize swamp coolers.