http://deseretnews.com/utah The latest local news from the Deseret Morning News en-us Copyright 2007, Deseret News Publishing Company Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:00:01 MST Fri, 5 Dec 2008 02:01:14 MST Newspapers http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268191,00.html It almost sounds like a setup to a really bad Johnny Carson joke: The Eureka baseball fields are so bad</I> ... But the punch line is no laughing matter. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268071,00.html Hard times have come to Utah state government. Thursday, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. recommended a budget for the next fiscal year that is $1.1 billion less than his spending plan of just a year ago. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 01:47:06 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268066,00.html Jim Matheson, Jason Chaffetz and Rob Bishop not only won their U.S. House races this year, they raised so much money in the process that they have huge financial head starts for their next races. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268073,00.html Robert Redford will be there, that's a given. But the 2009 Sundance Film Festival may also boast guest appearances by actors Jim Carrey, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Ewan McGregor, Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams, musicians The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, comedians Chris Rock and Bill Cosby, and boxer Mike Tyson. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:44:55 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268158,00.html Six groups filed an administrative protest Thursday with the Bureau of Land Management over the BLM's Dec. 19 lease sale of parcels for oil and gas development that critics say are too close to several treasured areas of Utah. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268161,00.html People who abuse drugs or alcohol are twice as likely to be admitted to intensive care, according to a joint BYU-LDS Hospital study published in the journal Intensive Care Medicine. And that likely drives overall medical costs higher. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268157,00.html A couple dozen American Indian students and community members converged on the University of Utah campus Thursday in opposition to current policies they believe are infringing on their rights. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268211,00.html Nevada officials who want to pipe water from aquifers near the Utah border to users in Las Vegas are being told by Utah leaders that it's OK, with one clear caveat. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268228,00.html Though it happened far away, it hit home. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268094,00.html The air inside aging buildings on the west side of Hill Air Force Base is still OK to breathe, according to results from an air-sampling survey recently completed at the base. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268110,00.html Funeral services for Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin will be held at noon Friday in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. The public is invited, and those who attend are asked to be in their seats by 11:30 a.m. Tabernacle doors will open at 11 a.m. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268155,00.html After a year of providing hope and services to families and individuals with autism spectrum disorder, Lehi-based Autism Journeys now has a place to call home. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268080,00.html Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, raised the possibility Thursday of attaching an extreme, unusual condition to any taxpayer bailout of U.S. automakers: forcing General Motors and Chrysler to merge to save what they have estimated could be $8 billion to $10 billion a year. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268108,00.html Higher education institutions were spared the up to 10 percent cuts recommended by analysts but were dealt additional slashes to their budgets Thursday. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268109,00.html During bad economic times, crime goes up. So do lawsuits over money, foreclosures and other court actions involving economics. But the state courts system will likely be asked to do more with less. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268151,00.html State public education budgets will get a 3 to 4 percent cut for fiscal 2010, as recommended by the governor. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268102,00.html More than $100 million will be cut from the departments that serve the most needy of Utahns. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268114,00.html The Utah Department of Transportation stands to lose $200 million in its capital budget, which is used to fund construction. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268087,00.html There will be layoffs at the Utah Department of Corrections. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268078,00.html Federal authorities have seized bank accounts and a car belonging to a Brigham City physician, accusing him of prescribing hundreds of thousands of pills without bothering to examine patients. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268062,00.html There may be a stand-down in the litigation over the United Effort Plan Trust, but some who live in the fundamentalist border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., don't feel that way. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268112,00.html Just one day after an 11-year-old Salt Lake boy hid under his bed with a phone to report burglars in his house, a 16-year-old Provo girl hid in the shower to call police about an intruder rummaging around her home. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268156,00.html The Bush administration is trying to make it tougher for Congress to block mining and oil and gas drilling on public lands. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:26 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268052,00.html Utah Valley University is cutting positions in order to make up for the 4 percent budget cuts delivered to Utah's higher education institutions in September. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268041,00.html A Green River man has been sentenced to a year's probation and ordered to pay $7,500 in fines and restitution for misusing a pesticide that killed a hound dog on his melon farm. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268097,00.html A man who police say kidnapped a woman over a botched drug deal has pleaded not guilty but asked for time to consider a potential resolution. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268206,00.html Second-graders from Lomond View Elementary School in Pleasant View and David States, an engineer for ATK Space Systems, watch as ATK Launch Systems and NASA test fire an FSM-15 space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor in Promontory Thursday. The world's largest solid rocket motor measures more than 126 feet long and 12 feet in diameter. Data will be used to ensure the safety of NASA's remaining shuttle flights. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268175,00.html Staples sales associate Kara-Lynn Cowling helps customers Maria Braman and Rick Edginton with their purchase as Salt Lake City police and fire crews respond to the Staples store at 624 E. 400 South after an elderly woman drove her car into the front doors. No one was injured in the accident, police reported. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268170,00.html Ash Christensen spins around with one new shoe on after opening the gift. America First Credit Union employees gave new shoes to 200 kids from the Roy area at Lakeview Elementary on Thursday. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268261,00.html Salt Lake City and two of its police officers are not liable in the case of a disabled veteran who says officers used excessive force in arresting him two years ago at Liberty Park, according to a U.S. District Court decision filed Thursday. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268065,00.html The Sprague Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library will celebrate its 80th birthday from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday with free cake and tours of the historic building at 2131 S. 1100 East. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268176,00.html Police are investigating an aggravated robbery at Georges International Market just after 6 p.m. Thursday. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268085,00.html Salt Lake police were looking Thursday for a bank robber who ordered employees not to give him a dye pack. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268260,00.html Curtis Jason Ellis, 41, has been sentenced to one to 15 years in prison for strangling his girlfriend in 2006 in the West Valley residence they shared. Ellis pleaded guilty to manslaughter, a second-degree felony, and was sentenced Tuesday by 3rd District Judge William Barrett. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268173,00.html A "Jingle Bell 5K" will kick off Bountiful's Clipper Electric Light Parade on Friday at 5:45 p.m. as runners strap bells on their feet and head out to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. There's also a "Snow Shuffle" 1 mile run/walk. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268040,00.html Salt Lake City police and its SWAT team raided a smoke shop in a drug investigation. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268172,00.html The Mountain Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross will offer a baby sitter's training class at 865 N. Freedom Blvd. on Saturday. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268174,00.html A Tree Lighting Ceremony to ring in the holidays will be held Friday at 6:30 p.m. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:41:21 MST