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XGR-SESSION ENDS
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers are set to put final touches on the budget and work through dozens of bills as they wrap up their legislative session late Thursday night. They're adjourning without moving forward on an expansive school technology plan or expanding Medicaid as offered under the federal health care law. Legislators are set to close the session without major changes to gun or alcohol laws, two hot topics in past years. Proposals dealing with the state prison in Draper and the construction of a large Salt Lake City hotel, two sizable development efforts that stalled last year, appeared poised to pass heading into lawmakers' last day. Legislators this year also approved plans to overhaul the caucus convention system for electing candidates and took steps to restrict the drones. By Michelle L. Price. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 400 words by noon, followed by updates throughout the day.
XGR--SESSION ENDS-GLANCE
SALT LAKE CITY — After 45 days of meetings and debate, hundreds of bills and a few protests, the 2014 legislative session is set to close at midnight Thursday. Here's a look at where some of this year's most noteworthy proposals and topics ended up as lawmakers head home. By Annie Knox and Michelle L. Price. UPCOMING: 800 words by 6 p.m.
ATTORNEY-DRUG ARREST
SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City attorney who represented the police department made his first court this week on charges that he was making a marijuana byproduct in a makeshift lab at his home and selling it with his two adult sons. James Wesley Robinson, 50, is charged with operation of a clandestine laboratory, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and possession or use of a controlled substance. His two sons, Alexander, 21, and Zachary Robinson, 18, have also been charged with similar violations. They are accused of manufacturing the marijuana byproduct called "Dab" or "Shatter," a concentrated, caramel-like substance produced from raw pot. Officers found a pressure cooker with an air hose running to a small air compressor in Robinson's basement that was used to make the byproduct, which has a higher street value than normal marijuana. They also found several pounds of marijuana, firearms, bongs and thousands of dollars of cash in bundles. By Brady McCombs. UPCOMING: 500 words by 2 p.m. MDT.
IN BRIEF:
— DEPUTY DUI-CRASH — A Washington County deputy has resigned after authorities say he rolled his police vehicle while under the influence.
— BICYCLISTS KILLED-LEHI — Friends and family are mourning two fathers who died after being hit by a truck in Lehi while biking to work.
— CONDORS-LEAD LEVELS — Wildlife conservationists say the number of California condors suffering from lead poisoning is one of the lowest in nearly a decade.
— COLD CASE-MISSING PREGNANT WOMAN — Salt Lake City police say they believe a pregnant woman who vanished 12 years ago was killed.
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