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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A California attorney has been fined $3,000 for zapping a witness with a trick pen during a Utah trial over whether electrical currents from a power plant are harming cows. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Don Howarth, who represented dairy farmers, gave a child's gag pen to expert Athanasios Meliopoulos. He told him it contained a 1.5-volt AAA battery. The pen also contained a transformer that boosted the battery up to 750 volts.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state ban starting tomorrow forbids anyone behind the wheel from tapping out numbers or other information on phones. But using them to search for directions is still allowed. St. George Republican Sen. Stephen Urquhart says it prevents in-transit texters from skirting penalties by saying they were doing something else such as checking Facebook.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is moving 67 missionaries out of Ukraine because of continuing unrest there. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says the missionaries will be reassigned within their home countries. The church says 41 missionaries who anticipated serving in Ukraine have been reassigned.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is soliciting bids for new, short-term holding facilities for wild horses removed from Western rangelands under its ongoing program to thin herds. Bids will be accepted until June 2 from those interested in operating the corrals in 17 Western and Midwestern states. The BLM places mustangs in the facilities until they're adopted or shipped to long-term pastures in the Midwest.
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