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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Washington-based watchdog group is asking three state attorneys general to investigate a Utah lawmaker who has led a push for western states to take control of federal public lands. The Campaign for Accountability is calling on Utah, Montana and Arizona to investigate Utah Republican state Rep. Ken Ivory and his nonprofit group the American Lands Council. Ivory called the complaints bullying.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health officials say all but one of the 55 people who fell ill with suspected food poisoning while staying at a Salt Lake City homeless shelter have recovered. Officials are interviewing everyone who became sick to determine what and where they ate. Salt Lake County health department epidemiologist Ilene Risk says it appears to be a food handling error.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Funeral services for top-ranking Mormon leader L. Tom Perry have been scheduled for Friday in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Perry was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' highest governing body, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He died Saturday at the age of 92 in Salt Lake City from cancer.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man sentenced to death in a 1985 murder is asking for a new trial, claiming The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints interfered in his trial. The Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden reports that Douglas Lovell says attorneys for the church initially tried to prevent testimony from Mormon officials who counseled him in prison.
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