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NEPHI, Utah (AP) — A Nephi teacher has been found not guilty of sexually molesting a former student. A jury deliberated about two hours before returning the verdict last night in favor of 39-year-old Hadley Christensen. He was charged with a first-degree felony count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child following a sleepover with his daughter and her 11-year-old friend at his Nephi home in 2012.
PROVO, Utah (AP) — The attorney for a Utah County doctor who was convicted of killing his wife wants a separate sex abuse conviction thrown out. The Tribune reports that Martin MacNeill's lawyer, Randall Spencer, filed a motion this week asking the judge to dismiss the conviction because of a tape recording police lost from 2007. A judge denied the motion when Spencer made the same attempt earlier this year prior to the trial.
CISCO, Utah (AP) — A Colorado company that operates an oil and gas wastewater disposal facility in Grand County has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine to the state. The Air Quality Board approved the "early settlement" with Danish Flats Environmental Services over its evaporation ponds north of Cisco, a few miles from the Colorado line on Interstate 70.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert has appointed a former prosecutor as chairwoman of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. Angela Micklos will replace Clark Harms as head of the board responsible for deciding the length of prison terms, termination of sentences, commutations and pardons. She spent over a decade as a Salt Lake County deputy DA and also served as an assistant attorney general for six years.
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