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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church has excommunicated the prominent founder of a Mormon women's group. The group, Ordain Women, announced this afternoon that Kate Kelly's former church leaders in Virginia notified her of the decision. Mormon officials aren't discussing Kelly's case.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Documents show a former Utah congressional staffer accused of lying about his Iraq War injuries killed himself in March. Court records obtained today show 49-year-old Gilbert Prado shot himself in the chest with a handgun on March 19 at a Draper outlet mall. The state medical examiner's office certified the death as a suicide.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A handful of state legislative seats and county-level offices are among the races to be decided during otherwise largely quiet primary elections in Utah tomorrow. Turnout is expected to be light across the state in part because each party's candidates for the state's four congressional seats, attorney general and dozens of state legislative races were already decided at party conventions in late April.
HEBER CITY (AP) — Authorities are investigating a stabbing at the Rainbow Family gathering in the Uinta National Forest. A Wasatch County Sheriff's deputy says 32-year-old Leilani Novak-Garcia attacked a man with a knife at a campsite early today. Police are still looking for her. The gathering is dedicated to peace and nonviolence.
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