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HUNTING ACCIDENT-UTAH
Guide wounded during Utah pheasant hunt
PARADISE, Utah (AP) — A guide was shot and wounded during a pheasant hunt Saturday morning at a private hunting club in the Cache County town of Paradise.
Sheriff's Lt. Mike Peterson says 60-year-old Craig Bingham was leading a group of nine hunters from the Huntsville area when a number of pheasants flushed from cover, causing party members to fire their guns in different directions.
He says Bingham was standing on a small knoll about 80 yards in front of the party and was struck by at least three pellets.
Bingham was taken by ambulance to Logan Regional Hospital, where he underwent treatment after being hit in an eye, hand and thigh.
Peterson says the most significant injury was to the eye, which is going to require surgery, but the injuries are not life threatening.
Deputies have determined it was an accident and no criminal charges will be filed.
INMATE DIES
Iron County inmate death called apparent suicide
(Information in the following story is from: The Spectrum, http://www.thespectrum.com)
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — Authorities are calling an inmate's death at the Iron County Jail in Cedar City an apparent suicide.
According to the county attorney's office, medical personnel sent to the jail found the inmate dead early Friday morning.
The inmate's name wasn't immediately released.
The Spectrum of St. George reports the death is under investigation by the county's Critical Incident Task Force, a group of detectives from different law enforcement agencies charged with looking into inmate deaths and officer-involved shootings.
OPEN TOILET-AD
Ad with toddler next to open toilet criticized
(Information in the following story is from: Deseret News, http://www.deseretnews.com)
OREM, Utah (AP) — A Utah company is pulling an ad featuring a photo of a toddler playing with a rubber ducky next to an open toilet in response to criticism.
The mailer by Any Hour Services of Orem, which offers plumbing service, also features the slogan: "No job too small — We fix it all."
The company scrapped the ad after Vince and Lark Martinez lodged complaints about it. In 1994, their 14-month-old son, Tregory, leaned over a toilet bowl too far, fell in and couldn't pull himself out. He suffered massive brain damage and eventually died.
Wyatt Hepworth says he empathizes with the couple's concerns, and his company's new ad will feature the same 16-month-old child standing next to a toilet that has the seat lowered and a child safety lock in place.
The ad also will include photos of the couple and their deceased son with the message: "Keep your toddlers safe and clean with toilet latch."
Hepworth says his business now will install a free child-proof latch with any plumbing service over $50.
The new ad has the full support of the Martinez family.
MASKED SUSPECT-GETAWAY
Robbery suspect running with part of till arrested
MAGNA, Utah (AP) — Police say a robbery suspect was arrested in a Salt Lake City suburb after they found him running down the street with a ski mask covering his face and a gun in one hand and part of a cash register in the other hand.
Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal says two officers caught the suspect even before the Friday afternoon robbery was reported by an employee in a 911 call.
Hoyal says the suspect ran away when they tried to stop him but was apprehended outside a nearby home.
Scott Trumble is accused of demanding money from a store clerk at gunpoint. The robber asked for more money, but became frustrated after being told there was no more money and left.
The 33-year-old Trumble was arrested for investigation of aggravated robbery.
UTAH OFFICERS SHOT-INDEPENDENT REVIEW
Weber County officials cleared in inmate's suicide
(Information in the following story is from: Standard-Examiner, http://www.standard.net)
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — An independent review concludes that there was no mistreatment by jail staff, prosecutors or a judge leading up to Matthew Stewart's May 2013 suicide in the Weber County jail.
Chief Deputy Cache County Attorney Donald Linton, who reviewed a Utah Department of Public Safety investigation of the Stewart family's claims of abuse and bias, found that Stewart alone was responsible for his hanging death.
Stewart was accused of killing an officer and wounding five others when a narcotics strike team descended on his Ogden home during a January 2012 raid that netted 13 marijuana plants. He could have faced the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder.
Linton's report says inmates and staffers who interacted with Stewart said he was not acting abnormally or suicidal before his death. It also says there were no signs of physical or mental abuse by jailers or other inmates.
But the report notes inmates observed Stewart to be visibly upset after a judge ruled that the serving of a search warrant on his home was legal, effectively clearing the way for him to be brought to trial on a charge of aggravated murder and seven counts of attempted murder.
Matthew Stewart's sister-in-law Erna Stewart tells the Standard-Examiner of Ogden that the family maintains a belief that he was mistreated and he killed himself because he didn't think he would receive a fair trial.
XGR-PARENT DEATH-CUSTODY
Utah law aims to protect kids after parent's death
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a measure into law that is aimed at protecting children for whom one parent is a primary suspect in the other's death.
The law Herbert approved Thursday comes after urging from the 20-year-old son of a woman found dead in a bathtub in 2011.
Pelle Wall, citing fears and suspicions about his father, urged legislators to allow juvenile district court judges to order that children be temporarily removed from the suspect parent's home.
Wall's father, 49-year-old John Brickman Wall, is a Salt Lake City doctor who has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the killing of his ex-wife, university biologist Uta Von Schwedler. The case is pending in a Utah court.
The Deseret News reports that after police made his father a person of interest in the death, Wall spent his mother's inheritance on legal bills to push authorities to take his siblings, then 16, 12 and 11, away from his father.
Herbert on Friday said the law gives judges power that could save lives and protect children.
NAVAJO-JUNK FOOD TAX
Navajo lawmaker attempts to revive junk food tax
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo President Ben Shelly's decision to veto a tax on junk food sold on the reservation is being challenged.
Tribal lawmaker Jonathan Hale has sponsored legislation to override the veto of the tax, as well as Shelly's rejection of a companion bill to eliminate the sales tax on nuts, fresh fruit and vegetables.
Hale's proposals are open for public comment.
Shelly says he vetoed the junk food tax because the legislation didn't clearly state how boosting the sales tax to 7 percent for snacks high in fat, sugar and salt would be enforced and regulated. The tribe's current sales tax is 5 percent.
The Tribal Council isn't scheduled to meet in regular session until next month. The council can override Shelly's vetoes with a two-thirds vote of its 24 members.
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