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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has issued a split ruling on Utah's controversial immigration law. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups upheld a key provision requiring authorities to check the immigration status of people arrested for felonies or Class A misdemeanors. But he set limits on how it can be implemented. Waddoups also tossed a part that made it a state crime to harbor a person in the country illegally.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah authorities say officers followed protocol when they helped search the home search of a former Utah attorney general, but Mark Shurtleff says the raid terrorized his teenage children by pointing guns at them. State Bureau of Investigation director Maj. Brian Redd says agents entered the Sandy home in a criminal investigation of Shurtleff and his successor John Swallow.

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation's largest coal companies has sued President Barack Obama's administration seeking to block the Environmental Protection Agency's new carbon emissions rules for power plants. Murray Energy says it's the nation's largest privately owned coal company. It employs 7,200 people in six states including Utah. It calls the EPA regulations illegal and argues they'll destroy jobs.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An environmental group wants federal wildlife managers to revise a decades-old recovery plan for grizzly bears to ensure the animal's return to more areas of the West. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition that identifies 110,000 square miles in a handful of western states as suitable habitat for the bears. The areas include parts of Utah and Colorado.