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UINTA NATIONAL FOREST, Utah (AP) — About 4,000 members of a counterculture group known as the Rainbow Family are celebrating in the woods about 60 miles east of Salt Lake City. The annual four-day celebration is expected to grow to 10,000 people by Friday, the height of the celebration. The group counts no leaders or official members. Last year, it set up camp in a part of Montana national forest.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has upheld a sentence of three years for a Brigham City doctor convicted of illegally prescribing prescription drugs to patients. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that prosecutors had argued the sentence for Dewey MacKay was not enough. But at a hearing yesterday the judge confirmed the 66-year-old will be jailed for 20 years.
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Provo Police have arrested a 46-year-old woman accused of attempting to buy methamphetamine from an off-duty police officer and claiming the purchase was a birthday gift for her sister. Records say Heather Rodriguez also told police the pipe was not hers but she was holding it for a friend.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of Mormon missionaries won't get citations for cementing a flagpole onto Mt. Olympus. The Forest Service says the summit is a designated wilderness area where it's illegal to make any permanent installations. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the missionaries chiseled away about 80 pounds of concrete and hauled it off on Saturday.
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