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SALT LAKE CITY — Surprising findings in a report on the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, a special honor for Salt Lake's mayor, and an unsolved hit-and-run auto-pedestrian crash: Here's a glimpse a few big stories you might have missed this weekend.

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GOP-led House report debunks Benghazi allegations

The CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, a Republican-controlled House committee has found. Its report asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration officials.

"We conducted detailed interviews with senior intelligence officials from Benghazi and Tripoli as well as eight security personnel on the ground in Benghazi that night. Based on the testimony and the documents we reviewed, we concluded that all the CIA officers in Benghazi were heroes. Their actions saved lives," House Intelligence Committee leaders said.

The committee's report was released with little fanfare on the Friday before Thanksgiving week.

SLC mayor named president of National League of Cities

Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker was named president of the group — comprised of leaders from 19,000 member municipalities — on Saturday, following a week-long annual Congress of Cities in Austin, Texas.

As its newest president, Becker is hoping to give the organization more pull in Washington, D.C.

"It is in our municipalities and communities where real innovation, real action and real decisions are being made," he said. "We are driving not just our local and regional economies, but we are driving progress in our country overall."

Boy injured in hit-and-run accident

Salt Lake City police are looking for the driver responsible for hitting an 11-year-old boy near 800 South and 900 West Saturday night, and then taking off.

The boy suffered minor injuries. The only clue police have in the case is the car involved may have been red.

Man breaks into Salt Lake dealership, steals SUV

Police arrested Jonah Matthias Antosch, 21, after he allegedly broke into the Salt Lake City Jerry Seiner car dealership early Saturday morning and caused several thousands of dollars in damage ramming his way out of the building in a stolen vehicle.

Police said a witness reported seeing Antosch "driving erratically" and he was pulled over by police a few blocks from the dealership. [Police seek man in connection with 3 Salt Lake County robberies

A man who had "something strapped to his chest" robbed a South Jordan Denny's restaurant Sunday morning and may be responsible for two other Draper robberies, police say.

Witnesses told police the man entered the restaurant, displayed a handgun and demanded money. They said the man also the man displayed an "incendiary device" on his chest.

Similar descriptions were given by witnesses to a robbery at a Draper Pro Stop convenience store an attempted robbery at a Draper 7-Eleven store. Police are looking for the man.](http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=32455846&nid=148)

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