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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a Utah woman accused of concealing seven pregnancies before allegedly strangling or suffocating her newborns gave birth each time in her home. Pleasant Grove Police Capt. Mike Roberts said today that investigators have determined that 39-year-old Megan Huntsman did not go to a hospital to have the babies. He didn't say if anybody helped her give birth. Huntsman acknowledged to police that she killed six of the babies. One was stillborn.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says Medicaid expansion talks with federal officials are moving forward. Herbert said today he again made the case in Washington, D.C., this week for a plan to cover low-income Utah residents in the private market, instead of the government program. He says the plan was well received by White House staff members but its details must still be worked out.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An M16 rifle that had been missing from a Utah sheriff's office since the mid-2000s has been recovered. The Standard-Examiner of Ogden reports Davis County Sheriff Todd Richardson says the weapon was returned Friday. He would not identify who brought it in. Richardson said an investigation is underway by the county attorney to determine if charges will be filed. The rifle was one of 20 given to the Davis County Sheriff's Office in 1998 under a Department of Defense program that issues surplus equipment to police agencies.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man charged with arson is asking a judge to throw out statements he made to police after the blaze because they were made in violation of his constitutional rights. The 34-year-old Dustin Bowman is charged with arson in a Feb. 9 fire at a downtown Salt Lake City apartment complex that caused $6 million in damage. Nobody was inside the building, and no one was hurt. He has pleaded not guilty.
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