>>Utah Members Of Congress Oppose Syria Airstrikes

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Every member of Congress hailing from Utah is opposed to President Obama's desire to strike militarily against Syria. The "Tribune" says Senator Orrin Hatch was the latest member of Congress to express his doubts over a possible airstrike. Hatch said he wants to see a diplomatic answer to the problem instead.

BRIGHAM CITY — A man, his stepdaughter and a family dog have all been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide, Brigham City Police said. Police said the mother came home at night to find her 16-year-old daughter, Alix Norman, dead in the basement at 545 N. 100 East. Police found the girl's stepfather, 45-year-old Michael Woodruff, dead in a different room with a .40-caliber handgun near his body. They believe he shot the girl and then turned the gun on himself, Brigham City Police Lt. Michael Nelson said. The family's dog was also shot and killed.


>>Exec. Depositions In Park City Fraud Case Today

(Park City, UT) -- The judge presiding over a case of fraud by a Park City ski resort is denying attorneys access to internal emails from the resort. The emails won't be available when attorneys are scheduled to begin depositions of Park City Mountain Resort executives today. Park City executives are accused of fraud after they allegedly back-dated a letter so it appeared as though a land lease was renewed before a deadline.

>>Schools To Offer Healthy Vending Options

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Schools in Utah are about to get a little bit healthier. The "Tribune" says beginning with the next academic year Utah schools will limit vending machines to sell only healthy options for food such as trail mix and fruit juice. The vending machine limits are thanks to new federal guidelines aimed at getting school kids to eat healthier when they're not at home.

>>Man Arrested For Shaking Girl

(Layton, UT) -- An arrest is made in Layton where police say a man violently shook his girlfriend's eleven-year-old daughter. The girl was still in critical condition last night at a Layton-area hospital. Tyler Geary was arrested for investigation of child abuse. Police say Geary shook the girl and threw her onto a bed because she wouldn't stop crying.

>>Environmental Groups Down On Coal Project

(Undated) -- Environmentalists are trying to bury a coal project in southern Utah. A consortium of environmental groups led by the Sierra Club released a statement yesterday condemning the Coal Hollow Mine Expansion project near Alton. The statement contends the project would "industrialize" the lands near Bryce Canyon National Park for quote, "low-cost dirty fossil fuel." The statement accompanied more than 47-thousand signatures that were later handed to Utah's Bureau of Land Management.

>>Senators John Morse, Angela Giron Recalled

(Pueblo, CO) -- State Senate President John Morse and Senator Angela Giron are the first state officials to be recalled. Gun rights advocates led the recall because of their support on new gun regulations. While close to 51-percent of voters in Morse's district voted to oust him, 56-percent voting in Giron's district chose for her to step down.

　

SALT LAKE CITY — With a declaration from one of its senior leaders that "all citizens benefit from a robust and vigorous religious freedom," The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has published several new tools to be used by people of all faiths in the battle for religious freedom. "In many countries, including the United States, religious liberty is slowly and dangerously eroding," says Elder L. Tom Perry, a senior member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve, in a video introduction to the new materials posted on the LDS Newsroom website late Tuesday evening. "These essential freedoms of conscience, embedded in religious liberty, must be diligently preserved and protected."

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