Tuesday, July 9, 2013

>>Murray Water Main Breaks

(Murray, UT) -- Residents of a Murray neighborhood are cleaning up after yesterday's water-main break. Authorities say no one was hurt when the pipe burst through the asphalt and sent a 30-foot jet of water into the air. The area near 55-hundred South and 11-hundred West now has a large sinkhole. The cause of the break hasn't been determined.

>>Anti Wolf Group Audit

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- An anti-wolf group is facing a state audit. Big Game Forever has received thousands of Utah's dollars since 2010 to get the gray wolf off the federal conservation list. However, officials say the group has not disclosed what that money's paying for. The group is scheduled to receive another 300-thousand dollar state grant this coming year. State lawmakers say they want answers before any more money's given out.

>>Home Based Gun Business

(Woods Cross, UT) -- A proposed home-based gun business alarms some people in Woods Cross. City administrator Gary Uresk says Tyler Murri is selling, not manufacturing. And he would not be allowed to advertise outside the home.

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The Woods Cross Planning Commission will take public comment on the matter tomorrow. The meeting at the Municipal Building starts at 6:30 p.m.

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Ria Van Lent says guns have no place in a family-oriented neighborhood.



>>Ineligible Inmates Receiving Benefits

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A new audit finds the state's paying public assistance to ineligible prison inmates. The Legislative Auditor General’s preliminary report took a small sample of both inmate and fugitive populations. The report found 179 inmates got some form of public assistance. It's not clear how much public money has been given to inmates or fugitives.



>>AG Restraining Order Denied

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A businessman is not getting a restraining order against the attorney general's office. Marc Sessions had said his family's being harassed by government officials, but the judge threw his request out. Assistant Attorney General John Reed says that was the right thing to do.
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Sessions is being tried for fraud. He claims attorney general John Swallow arranged for federal bribes for him.


VERNAL, Utah – Vernal police said they found a body in a Vernal apartment Saturday, and they said there are signs of a fight.

Officers said the body was in the living room of a residence at the Pheasant Glen Apartments.

The victim has been identified as 52-year-old Christopher Alan Miller of Vernal. Police said they do not have any suspects at this point, and they are still waiting to hear from the medical examiner’s office regarding the cause of death.




 


>>Furloughs Announced For Civilians At Hill A-F-B

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Close to eleven-thousand civilian employees at Hill Air Force Base are facing furloughs. The eleven mandatory off-days being scheduled between now and late September will reportedly save the Defense Department over 30-million-dollars. A statsement by the base blames the government's sequestration for the furloughs.



AMERICAN FORK CANYON — A flight instructor and a student survived a helicopter crash into a mountainside near Tibble Fork Reservoir on Monday.

Rescuers say not only were the victims lucky to survive the crash, but they were fortunate to have cellphone service and to be found so quickly.

Pilot Gregory Walther, 28, of West Valley City, and his 24-year-old student, Terrance "Bud" Oakley, of Sandy, were on an instructional flight from Heber City to Salt Lake City. The training flight was operated by Upper Limit Aviation, according to the Utah County Sheriff's Office.
 


(Murry Utah)- A man’s body was found in Big Cottonwood Creek in Murray, police said.

A passerby was walking over the creek about 1:20 p.m. Monday on the bridge at 850 E. Van Winkle Expressway when he noticed a body in the water, said Murray police spokesman Jeff Maglish. Officers confirmed the man was dead; his body was caught on some trees, Maglish said. There were no obvious injuries to his body, Maglish said. A medical examiner was trying to determine the cause of death as of Monday evening. The man was carrying no identification and officers do not know who he is.

 

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah has a shortage of doctors that practice family medicine, and that shortage could be compounded next year as millions of newly insured patients around the country gain coverage under the health care law.

Utah ranks last in the country for primary care doctors, with 58.4 active primary care physicians per 100,000 people, according to 2011 American Medical Association data. That's below the national average of 79.4 primary-care doctors per 100,000 people.

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