Monday, January 7, 2013

>>Boy, 11, Suffers Cardiac Arrest Playing Soccer

(Provo, UT) -- A family in Provo faces tenuous times after a young boy collapses during a soccer game. KSL-TV says eleven-year-old Alan Zapata is in a coma at Primary Children's Medical Center after suffering cardiac arrest late last week. The boy apparently said he had a headache and asked to come out of the game before collapsing a short time later. The boy's family says he had no pre-existing conditions.

>>Female Getaway Driver IDd

(Murray, UT) -- Murray police release the identity of a woman wanted for acting as the accomplice of a costume-wearing robber. Authorities say 40-year-old Sandra Chotia-Thompson helped the suspect during a Saturday night robbery at Scaddy's restaurant in Murray. She allegedly aided a man with a plastic nose and Charlie Chaplin costume by operating a getaway car. Both suspects are at-large.

>>College Accounting Majors Finding Most Jobs

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- College students, listen up -- majoring in accounting might be your best choice if finding a job after graduation is your top priority. The "Deseret News" says a new survey finds nearly 70-percent of accounting majors get a job in that field immediately upon graduation. That's the highest rate of all majors. The authors of the study say the reason is the increased demand in audit and tax professionals.

>>Senator Pushes For Legislative Transparency

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- State Senator Aaron Osmond says he's pushing for legislative transparency. Osmond wants to do away with the so-called "boxcar" practice that lets lawmakers keep bill contents under wraps until the legislative session is nearing an end. Osmond says he wants the public affected by a bill to have a lot of time to react before the measure is presented to the legislative body.

>>Vernal Lawsuit Accuses Police Of Intruding After Wife's Death

(Vernal, UT) -- A former Vernal resident is suing Vernal and city police for what he says is a violation of his rights. Ben Mahaffey's wife died at home last May from cancer. Mahaffey says he was waiting for the mortician and hospice when police came and counted his wife's prescription drugs and took them. The "Salt Lake Tribune" reports Mahaffey's attorney says "the government might be interested in trying to solve the problem of prescription drug abuse" but adds, "this is not the way to go about it."
 
 


>>Kearns Woman Sentenced For Death Of Disabled Woman

(Kearns, UT) -- A Kearns woman is saying she will never forgive herself for the death of a woman in her home. Sherrie Lynn Beckering is getting five years to life in prison for aggravated abuse of a disabled adult and plans to appeal the sentence. Christina Harms died in March. Beckering's husband is in prison for his abuse conviction. Harms' legal guardian is accused of murder and goes to trial next year.

>>Justin Bieber Visits Fan In Hospital

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Seven-year-old Millie Flamm is a big fan of Justin Bieber but couldn't make it to Saturday's Salt Lake concert. So her favorite musician came to her. Millie Flamm had show tickets but the girl is fighting leukemia and had to go back to the hospital. Some mothers worked online to get Bieber to visit Millie at Primary Children's Hospital and that's just what he did before his concert.

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah’s highest-ranking elected executives get sworn in on Monday, one with a ceremony at the Utah State Capitol and one with a unique ceremony downtown.
Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor-elect Ben McAdams will step of an old-school bus painted orange at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center at 8:45 a.m. Monday.
The bus was the symbol of his campaign, and now he’s calling it the bipartisan bus.
Governor Gary Herbert has been in office since Aug. 2009, and Monday’s inauguration will be his third.
The first came after Jon Huntsman, Jr., retired in 2009, the second after a special election in 2010, making this week’s inauguration his third in four years.
The inauguration will include the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing patriotic tunes, Herbert’s sons singing the national anthem, a National Guard artillery salute and a flyover, plus Herbert’s inaugural address.
-0-SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon Tabernacle Choir dedicated Sunday's "Music and the Spoken Word" to the 26 children and adults who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Associate Music Conducter Ryan Murphy spent his early years at the school and wanted to offer comfort to their families.
Singing a Swedish melody — "Children of the Heavenly Father" — members of The Mormon Tabernacle Choir added their voices to those of millions throughout the world who mourn the deaths of 20 students and 5 faculty and staff of Sandy Hook Elementary.
The program was an opportunity for Murphy, to personally pay tribute. He is a native of Newtown, Connecticut and attended Sandy Hook Elementary from Kindergarten through second grade.
"One of the great roles of the choir is to bring peace and hope through music, especially for those who are healing,"
 LOGAN — A Utah State University student has received a grant to study rural towns along a scenic southern Utah road.
Kim Harris, a junior, will examine towns along Utah's Scenic Byway 12, located in the southeast corner of the state traveling across the Colorado Plateau,connecting Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef National Park and crossing part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Harris' goal is to combat the dilemma of towns that are struggling to preserve their agricultural heritage while also maintaining economic stability.
in these towns has been greatly challenged.
On one hand, local residents are struggling with the recessional economy. On the other hand, the growing visitor population disturbs their rural life. The recreational activities remain weak in bringing in profits to these towns.” She says.
She hopes to fill the gap between the current services in place and the development opportunity of environmentally friendly recreational services that have the potential of bringing needed revenue to each town.
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A pedestrian was injured Sunday afternoon when he was struck by a TRAX train near the Trolley Square station in Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City police Lt. Scott White said the man told firefighters that he had purposely jumped in the path of the train near 600 East and 400 South about 1 p.m. in an attempt to kill himself.
But White said the train was already slowing for the Trolley Square stop so it didn’t kill the man, who was described as being in his late 30s or early 40s.
He said the man was conscious when he was transported to the University of Utah Hospital.
Utah Transit Authority spokesman Gerry Carpenter said the injuries were not initially believed to be life-threatening.

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