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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A plea agreement has been reached in the kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl from her Salt Lake City home that was thwarted by the girl's father. Forty-eight-year-old Troy Morley changed his plea to guilty to one count of child kidnapping today in an agreement with prosecutors. In exchange, other charges were dropped.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Actor Emile Hirsch is pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault after being accused of putting a female studio executive in a chokehold at a nightclub during the Sundance Film Festival. The "Into the Wild" star will spend 15 days in jail, pay a $4,750 fine and do 50 hours of community service. If he completes the sentence, the charge will be dismissed.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Wet weather in May and June prompted optimistic projections today from federal water managers keeping close tabs on the Colorado River water supply for about 40 million residents in seven Southwest U.S. states. Water agency officials in Arizona, Nevada and California say the Bureau of Reclamation is reporting it expects to make normal water deliveries at least through 2016.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State and federal authorities are investigating the destruction of nearly 100 trees at a proposed housing development in Big Cottonwood Canyon. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Salt Lake County officials say the developers did not have permission to cut down the trees. Some of the trees were on the property of the adjacent national forest.