>>Red Flag Fire Alert

(St. George, UT) -- Much of southwest Utah is under a red-flag fire alert today. Forecasters say high winds and temperatures, plus low humidity, equal prime fire potential. The warning expires at 10 tomorrow night. Last year, fires killed two pilots, destroyed eight homes and forced evacuations.

>>Child Dies After Hit-And-Run

(West Valley City, UT) -- Police are looking for the driver who took off after hitting and killing a two-year-old. Angela Barnett and her two kids were walking home from a Smith's store Monday night when a driver hit her son Gavyn's stroller. Gavyn died of his injuries yesterday. Police say the vehicle is a gray, white or silver sports car with a spoiler.

>>Missing Man Found

(St. George, UT) -- A missing St. George man is back home. Police say 92-year-old Ronald Bucher vanished yesterday morning during a walk. People in downtown St. George helped Bucher into a taxi.

(Dead Horse Point-Moab)- Using Utah canyon country as a backdrop, senior Sierra Club executives on Tuesday unveiled a renewed effort to protect the nation’s scenic treasures, highlighting environmentalists’ hopes to establish a Greater Canyonlands National Monument and shut the door on tar-sands development. The "Our Wild America" campaign also steps up the environmental group’s commitment to connect kids with nature, restore forest health and reduce the nation’s reliance on the fossil fuels behind climate change.

"Pollution, mining, drilling and fracking are encroaching on some of our last remaining wild wonders, and our society is becoming increasingly disconnected from nature at a time when climate disruption is making it more important than ever to be expanding our conservation legacy," said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, author of the book Coming Clean — Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal. He was speaking at Dead Horse Point.

>>Governor: Swallow Would Be Gone

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Governor Herbert says if Utah's attorney general were working in his office, he'd be fired by now.

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It's the strongest statement yet from Herbert's office about John Swallow. The attorney general's alleged to have helped arrange bribes with federal officials and taking favors from a convicted fraudster. The state House meets next week to discuss the impeachment process.

>>"Naked Gun" Burglar Sentenced

(St. George, UT) -- A burglar caught by a naked homeowner is spending 60-days in jail. Clinton Keller will serve his sentence at the Purgatory Correctional Facility. In March, homeowner Eric Martin caught Keller roaming his home. He held Keller at gunpoint until police arrived.

(Farmington, UT) -- A group of protesters is calling for Utah transportation officials to ditch plans for the West Davis Corridor. A U-DOT spokesperson tells KSL-TV the agency understands the issue is highly emotional for some people. Hundreds gathered yesterday for a protest in Farmington to voice displeasure for the proposed highway. Protesters say the money would be better spent on fixing existing roads.

>>Invasive Quagga Mussels Threaten Utah Lakes

(Undated) -- Divers are working overtime in southern Utah to halt the invasion of the quagga mussel. More than 30 biologists ventured into the waters of Lake Powell yesterday to search boats, docks and pipes for the invasive mussels before they threaten wildlife and infrastructure. Lake Powell is one of four Lakes in Utah under threat by the quaggas. Biologists say once the mussels reach the water they can multiply at an alarming rate.

EMERY COUNTY — A vacation in the San Rafael Desert turned into a major historic discovery when a family unearthed a dinosaur. The Watt family fro Eagle Mountain were enjoying their vacation in the San Rafael Desert over the weekend when they made the discovery. Amanda Watt said the annual trip is part of a longtime family tradition her father-in-law started. Watt said her nephew ran over to the group with the news that he had found something big in the dirt.

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The family alerted state paleontologists so they could safely excavate the bones. Paleontologists believe that the discovery was made on Bureau of Land Management land, and he is trying to arrange for the family to go back to help unearth the discovery.

>>New LDS Missionaries March In Provo

(Provo, UT) -- A so-called army of newly-minted Mormon missionaries takes part in a nighttime march in Provo. KSL-TV says an estimated three-thousand LDS missionaries participated in last night's march to the devotional at BYU Marriott Center in Provo. LDS officials say the new batch of missionaries will reach record numbers of more than 36-hundred come July

 

Colorado Springs, CO) -- At least 40-homes so far have been destroyed in the Black Forest Fire burning in El Paso County. The fire started yesterday afternoon and was zero percent contained last night. Thousands of homes have been evacuated. Nearly 400 firefighters are battling the blaze, but officials are hoping for additional help from crews at the state and federal level.

>>Heat Contributes to Multiple Wildfires

(Denver, CO) -- You need more than one hand to count the number of wildfires burning in Colorado right now, and yesterday's extreme heat didn't help. Denver International Airport showed 100-degrees, making Tuesday the earliest 100-degree day since 1870. The Black Forest Fire broke out yesterday and has so far destroyed at least 40-homes in El Paso County. The Big Meadows Fire in west Rocky Mountain National Park and the Royal Gorge fire both continued to burn yesterday as well, growing to 400 acres and nearly four-thousand acres, respectively