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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The State School Board has named a temporary superintendent after its two top officials left in recent months. Board members Thursday in a 9-6 vote appointed Joel Coleman to the post. He is currently the superintendent of Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind. Some members opposed the move, citing a potential conflict of interest as Coleman's wife brings a lawsuit against the Utah Charter School Board. Coleman disagrees, saying he does not consider himself to be a party to the suit.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah (AP) — Saratoga Springs police have arrested a Utah teenager in connection with a bomb threat at a Utah high school this week. They arrested the 16-year-old Thursday about 5:00 p.m. Investigators say the boy has a history of making threats similar to the one he issued to his former high school earlier in the week. City spokesman Owen Jackson says local and federal investigators tracked him down in part by using Facebook. They found no explosives in his home.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City police say a man escaped from a would-be kidnapper early yesterday morning by jumping out of his car and running toward officers who were making a traffic stop. Police say the victim was talking on his cellphone in his parked car when 34-year-old Damon Greenberry opened the passenger door and got inside. Greenberry allegedly forced the man to withdraw money from an ATM by indicating he had a gun.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A dry wash full of 112-million-year-old dinosaur tracks that include prints left behind by an ankylosaurus (ayn-kuh-loh-SAWR'-uhs), dromaeosaurus (droh-MEE'-uh-sawr-uhs) and a menacing ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex, are set to be opened to the public this fall near Moab, Utah. Utah Bureau of Land Management paleontologist ReBecca Hunt-Foster says there are more than 200 tracks in an area smaller than a football field. They were first discovered in 2009.
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