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MONTICELLO, Utah (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell toured archaeological sites in southeast Utah that a coalition of tribes and environmental groups want to see protected as a new national monument. Jewell hiked to ancient cliff dwellings and heard from those who support and oppose creating a monument in the Bears Ears area.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A lawsuit against polygamous leader Warren Jeffs takes aim at the group's longtime Utah law firm, arguing attorneys created a veneer of legality that helped leaders perpetuate abuses like child labor and underage marriage. The firm Snow, Christensen and Martineau denied the allegations in scathing terms Thursday, saying lawyers like Rod Parker were simply doing their jobs and can't be held responsible for anything Jeffs did.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement plan to gather at Salt Lake Community College's campus in Taylorsville on Friday. The Deseret News reports the campus was identified as the site of several dozen protests scheduled around the country Friday to protest police-involved shootings.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah attorney general's office is not investigating the supporters of a push for a new national monument in Utah, something Republican lawmakers requested. Republican Rep. Mike Noel of Kanab and other GOP officials said in April that they believed the coalition of tribes advocating for a 1.9-million-acre Bears Ears National Monument don't really represent Navajo people and that environmental groups were really driving the push.