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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is recovering from another operation on the leg he broke in a motorcycle crash last fall.
Spokesman Paul Murphy says Shurtleff's left leg was in severe pain on Thursday night when he got home from a conference in Rhode Island. His family took him to the hospital and doctors found a severe infection in the leg, which had been operated on three times since Shurtleff broke it in multiple places in September.
Murphy says doctors were able to get the infection, which had not reached the metal plates and screws used to rebuild his leg. Friday's operation was the fourth on the leg.
Murphy says Shurtleff will remain at University Hospital for a couple of days and have an IV antibiotic drip for four to six weeks.
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