FARMINGTON — A man was injured Wednesday night following a shootout with police, the result of a high-speed chase and reports of shots being fired at a vehicle on Legacy Parkway.Police say a 37-year-old Hispanic man driving a rental car with Texas license plates fired a gun at a white pickup truck about 5:30 p.m. on Legacy Parkway. The vehicles then exited the highway at Park Lane.Police pursued the car at high speeds through Farmington, eventually exchanging fire with the man near 650 West and State Street. The man sustained "superficial" injuries in the incident, but wasn't hit by gunfire, Farmington Police Chief Wayne Hansen said.Neither police nor the occupant of the pickup were injured, he said.The man was treated at Davis Hospital and released. Police were still interviewing him Wednesday night.Hansen said the incident "appears to be related" to a similar shooting Tuesday on I-215. According to the Utah Highway Patrol, the male driver in a newer model blue Toyota Camry opened fire on a white pickup truck about 2:30 p.m.

>Sensitive Medicaid Data Of Thousands 'Misplaced'

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Utah health officials admit they've misplaced personal information belonging to thousands of Medicaid recipients around the state. The Department of Health admitted yesterday a worker from Goold Health Systems, hired as a third-party contractor, misplaced a USB memory drive containing the sensitive data. Officials say the information allegedly misplaced includes names, Medicaid ID numbers, the person's age and their prescription drug use history.

>>West Valley City Woman Vanishes In Mexico

(West Valley City, UT) -- A West Valley City woman is the focus of a search in the Gulf of Mexico. The "Tribune" says Tamara Lashlee went missing Monday while vacationing off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico. Lashlee's mother says Mexican officials are aiding in the search for her daughter.

>>Man Arrested For Teen Girl's Disappearance

(Herriman, UT) -- Unified Police say they've arrested a man in connection with the teen who disappeared from her Herriman home a week ago. Authorities say Angel Garcia was arrested yesterday evening on suspicion of child kidnapping. Thirteen-year-old Brooklyn Gittins was found unharmed two-days following news of her apparent disappearance. Authorities say Garcia and Gittins knew each other before the alleged abduction.

>>Feds Looking At Another Utah AG Donor

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Yet another donor to Utah's attorney general is in the sights of federal regulators. The Federal Trade Commission says The Tax Club is just the latest in a long line of donors who gave money to former AG Mark Shurtleff and current AG John Swallow. The FTC is suing The Tax Club -- which the "Tribune" says has roots in Saint George -- alleging the business scammed customers out of more than 200-million dollars since 2008.

>>Avalanche Survivor Tells Tale

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The survivor of a Utah avalanche is recounting her harrowing story. Elisabeth Malloy was climbing in Mill Creek Canyon last weekend when an avalanche suddenly overtook her without warning. The 43-year-old was treated and released yesterday, thankfully with all her fingers and toes intact. Malloy says she'll return to the mountains one day.

>Utah Congressional Delegation Against President Obama's Gun Reforms

(Washington, DC) -- Utah's entire Congressional delegation wants nothing to do with the gun reforms introduced today by President Obama. Representative Jim Matheson is the lone Democrat in the group, and when asked by the "Salt Lake Tribune" to name any part of the President's proposal he liked, he couldn't. Senator Orrin Hatch wondered if Obama was moving too fast.

>>Nasty Inversion Settling In

(Undated) -- A very nasty air inversion continues to settle in along the Wasatch Front. Forecasters are expecting the air quality to get worse every day for the next several days. What's making this inversion really bad is the big difference in temperature at the floor of the valley and above the smog. That difference, combined with a consistent high pressure system, helps create a tighter trap for that gunky air in the valley.

>>Restaurant Serving Locals Only During Sundance

(Park City, UT) -- Celebrities are going to have to stay away from a particular restaurant in Park City, unless they happen to be locals as well. "Karleen's Uptown Fare" is planning to serve locals only during the Sundance Film Festival, which begins tomorrow and runs for ten days. Karleen Reily tells the "Salt Lake Tribune" she's even hiring a doorman to keep out-of-towners away from her soup and sandwich shop. This will be the fifth year she's done this as a response to the poor treatment she believes locals usually get from businesses during Sundance.


SALT LAKE CITY — Detectives with the Unified Police Department made an arrest Wednesday in the kidnapping of a 13-year-old Herriman girl who disappeared last week.After two days of searching, Brooklyn Gittins was found alive and well. But her return only raised more questions. The public got some answers a late-night press conference Wednesday, where Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder announced the arrest of Angel V. Garcia of Draper. Winder said the 55-year-old man was arrested at around 7:30 p.m. on separate counts of child kidnapping, harboring a runaway, obstructing justice and endangering a child. An investigation indicates Brooklyn knew Garcia through common friends prior to the disappearance and "significant" premeditation went into the kidnapping, arcia was aware of the extensive search effort and media coverage surrounding the case, and he moved the girl between several locations to avoid detection,

CLINTON — Crews responding to a house fire here early Wednesday had to battle heat, freezing temperatures — and bullets.Just before 1 a.m., a passer-by saw a truck on fire parked outside 1010 N. 2850 West. Inside the truck were boxes of .22-caliber ammunition. Attached to that was a trailer with propane tanks. When fire crews first arrived, the heat from the fire was causing the propane tanks to explode and the ammunition to go off, said Clinton Deputy Fire Chief Justin Benabides."We try to keep safe and put the fire out from a distance," he said of the initial plan for fighting the fire. Fortunately, the ammunition was spent in a timely manner, allowing fire crews to move in closer.An initial investigation showed the fire started after the homeowner cleaned out his fireplace and put coals into a bucket.

WASHINGTON • Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversaw a moratorium on offshore drilling after the BP oil spill and promoted alternative energy sources throughout the nation, will step down in March.A former U.S. senator from Colorado, Salazar ran the Interior Department throughout President Barack Obama’s first term and pushed renewable power such as solar and wind and the settlement of a longstanding dispute with American Indians.

(Moab Utah)- The Grand County COuncil voted unanimously this week to send a messaage to President ob ama opposing the creationg of a Greater Canyonlands national monument. Councilmember Lynn jackson, himself a retired BLM employee, proposed the latter which opposed the viewpint of the Outdoor industry Association promoting the expansion of Canyonlands. The letter says the plan would have "Serious consequences for Grand County." It also says the OIA dos not represent all the recreation bsiness and industry in the SE Utah region...particularly the motorized outdoor receation segment.

Copies of the letter also were sent ot the Governor, the Utah Congressional delegation and the Interior Department.

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