>>City Council Approves Property-Tax Increase

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- People in Salt Lake City are facing a property-tax increase. Last night the City Council approved hiking the taxes by almost 14-percent to pay for roadwork, improving parks and other projects. Some taxpayers in the audience criticized the Council for boosting taxes during hard economic times and hurting the "middle class."

>>Woman Loses Wedding Venue Due To Rockport Fire

(Summit County, UT) -- A woman says her wedding will still take place tomorrow though the Rockport Fire is forcing her to change the location. Tawni Sprouse and Travis Mann were planning to get married at Sprouse's parents' house until the fire began, and the home had to be evacuated. The fire has destroyed more than a dozen homes and threatened hundreds more. Sprouse says luckily her parents' home is still intact and officials allowed her to briefly go back there to get her wedding dress.

>>Deferred Deportation Program Keeps Thousands In Utah

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Thousands of people in Utah are part of the Obama administration's "deferred action for childhood arrivals" program. It lets people who are illegal immigrants stay in the country if they got here before age 16, have lived here continuously since at least June of 2007 and meet other requirements. Nadia Torres tells the "Salt Lake Tribune" the program is allowing her to finish her high-school degree and to try to get into college and nursing school.

CEDAR CITY, Utah – A man is in police custody after he fled from a traffic stop and then shot a motorcyclist on Main Street in Cedar City. According to information from the Cedar City Police Department, an officer attempted to pull over James Alan Reynolds for a moving violation at about 5:40 p.m.The suspect continued north on Main Street, and the pursuing officer noticed Reynolds had a firearm. Reynolds allegedly fired the weapon several times at another motorcyclist who was also traveling north.The victim was struck with multiple rounds, and he crashed his motorcycle. The 21-year-old male victim was taken to Dixie Regional Medical Center in serious condition.As the suspect attempted to flee from the officer he collided with westbound traffic at Center Street. The suspect and the occupants of the vehicle he hit sustained minor injuries.

>>Utes Celebrate New Football Center

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- University of Utah officials say the new football center will help the team. The Utes held a grand opening of the new 32-million-dollar Spence and Cleone Eccles Football Center yesterday. The 150-thousand-square-foot center has modern technology and equipment, including an underwater treadmill. Utes athletics director Dr. Chris Hill told KSL-TV "We are now competing with the biggest of bigs."

>>Erin Brockovich Will Help Fight Medical-Waste Incinerator

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Well-known consumer advocate Erin Brockovich is joining the fight to try to get a medical-waste incinerator in North Salt Lake closed. Investigator Bob Bowcock tells the "Salt Lake Tribune" he's worked with Brockovich before and he "wouldn't let the dog pound move next door" to the incinerator due to its pollution. Homeowner Alicia Connell is leading the campaign to get the site closed and says the support from Bowcock and Brockovich has invigorated her.


>>Patch Springs Fire Reaches 14-Thousand Acres

(Tooele County, UT) -- Terra Fire Chief Gerry Neil fears the Patch Springs Fire could burn for at least another week. He says they don't have as many resources on the front lines because of the Rockport 5 fire in Summit County.

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More than two dozen Willow Springs residents have been evacuated. The fire has burned about 14-thousand acres.

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Willow Springs resident Cheri LeFevre evacuated her home with just a car full of stuff.


>>Seventh Wildfire In Utah

(Juab Co., UT) -- Firefighters now have another fire to contend with in Utah. A wildfire ignited around one yesterday afternoon in western Juab County. It's currently around 100 acres. No homes are threatened right now. This blaze is the seventh fire this summer.


>>Area 51 Officially Acknowledged

(Undated) -- Some information is being released about the mysterious Area 51 in Nevada. New CIA documents officially acknowledge the site. However, there is no mention of alien spacecraft or other things paranormal as some conspiracy theorists have long believed are associated with the place. The reports state that Area 51, about 125 miles northwest of Las Vegas, was a test site for the government's U-2 and OXCART aerial surveillance programs, including over the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The documents, including a map, were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted back in 2005.

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is in the final testing phases of a project that will make wireless Internet available to a majority of people on the vast reservation. Tribal officials attended the opening of an $8 million commercial data center on Tuesday and recalled how a teenage girl who had won a laptop computer in a school contest wasn't able to connect to the Internet because she had no phone line at home and how residents in isolated communities climb mesas in search of cellphone service. NTUA spokeswoman Deenise Becenti said Wednesday that Internet service will be available to residents later this fall. For now, businesses and organizations that want to rent server capacity from the data center can do so.

　

(Moab Utah)-

Red Devil Sophmore football player Sam Woodruff's funeral is this afternoon at 4pm in the High Scholl Auditorium. Woodruff died of unknownn causes at his home Saturday just hours after a heavy Saturday morning team practice and workout. REsults of a autopsie and related toxicology test won't be known for weeks. The team will be working at the cemetery Saturday morning to help pay for Sam’s burial plot, according to the team’s Facebook page. Saturday evening at 7 p.m., the team will hold it’s Red and White scrimmage game at the high school, at which it will have cans where people can donate to the Woodruff family, to cover expenses.

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