(Washington/Orem) With the immigration reform initiative moving through the Senate Judiciary Committee, this will be a key week in deciding how the nation's broken immigration system gets fixed.

Immigration lawyer Christopher Keen from Orem, Utah, a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, says Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee have a lot of work to do in looking over the 844-page Gang of Eight bill:

"They'll need to pass the bill this week so the full senate will be able to vote on it after the Memorial Day recess. And with all these amendments, they'll have to work even harder so that it continues to have bipartisan support. Well actually, it's been decades since we've had a chance to fix the system in a bipartisan way and bring people out of the shadows. This could be good for business, good for families and serves our country in every way, just as the so-called Gang of Eight intended when they put this bill together," said Keen.




　


>>Search Ends For Susan Cox Powell

(West Valley City, UT) -- The search for Susan Cox Powell is over. West Valley City police say they'll keep following all leads and still hope to find her.

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West Valley City Deputy Police Chief Mike Powell said at yesterday's news conference the "active" search for Cox Powell is over but they'll still follow up on leads. Officials believe Cox Powell's late husband, Josh Powell, was "involved in her disappearance," but they're unsure if he killed her. Josh Powell killed himself and the couple's two sons last year.


SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday the funeral services to be held for Frances J. Monson, the wife of LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson. She passed away Friday.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at noon in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. The public is invited to the funeral service, according to a release on the church's website. There will be no public viewing.

Monson passed away peacefully Friday morning in a Salt Lake City hospital after having been hospitalized for several weeks. She was 85 years old.


>>Father Killer Sentenced

(Kaysville, UT) -- A man who killed his father in a Kaysville motel knows his fate. Joseph Nance will spend 30 years behind bars. He shot his father in 2011. His attorney said Nance suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from years of abuse.

>>Prosecutors Request More Time In Baby Death

(Provo, UT) -- Prosecutors say they need more time in a baby-death case. They say they want more details on Joshua Petersen's medical records. They want to find out about his mental state at the time his son Ryker died. Petersen's charged with shooting Ryker in the head with a rifle.


>>Two Arrested For Having Loaded Guns At Airport

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Two people are under arrest after TSA officials at Salt Lake International Airport find two loaded guns inside their luggage. The two passengers say they forgot they had loaded weapons in their bags. There have been 18 gun discoveries at the airport this year. There were 20 discoveries last year.

>>Three Charged For Serious Beating

(Undated) -- Charges are filed against three people wanted in the beating in eastern Utah that left a man critically injured. Emmett Duncan Junior, Megan Murray and Eric Welsh Junior were all charged yesterday with assault and theft. The May 15th beating at a gas station outside Roosevelt left victim Johnny Maez with critical injuries.

>>W-W-Two Munitions Found Outside Tooele

(Undated) -- The recent discoveries of World War Two-era munitions at Utah's shuttered Desert Chemical Depot are under investigation. Nearly 30 makeshift dumps have been found with munitions containing a liquid blistering agent. The "Tribune" says the depot's disposal facility was shuttered in 2012.

SALT LAKE CITY – A pickup truck dangling from a crane in front of the Utah State Capitol on Monday acted as a visual message about seat belt safety.The truck, suspended by seat belt material, kicked off this year’s Click It or Ticket campaign.

The Utah Highway Patrol says most Utahns – around 80 percent – use a seat belt, but that still leaves hundreds of thousands of drivers and passengers who don’t buckle.

Starting Monday, troopers will have extra eyes on the road, focusing on commuters who aren’t wearing seat belts.


　


Utah counties asserting legal title to disputed routes over federal land can expect some financial relief under a special appropriation recently authorized the Legislature.

Most of the state’s 29 counties have filed costly lawsuits against the federal government claiming ownership to rights of way under the now-repealed federal law known as RS2477.

While several state lawyers are assigned to litigate these cases, Kane and other counties are generating hefty legal bills with outside firms as they wrangle federal authorities over the status of hundreds of routes covering many thousands of miles.

Because the counties are pursuing a legal recourse that advances Utah’s position against the federal government, the state should assist them, says Kathleen Clarke, who runs Gov. Gary Herbert’s Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office.