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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials are reviewing how the state would be affected by a plan from congressional Republicans to replace President Barack Obama's health care law, but local health advocates say it could make coverage unaffordable for older people and the poor. Gov. Gary Herbert has said the proposal is a "starting point," for a replacement plan, and his office said Tuesday it does not yet know how the proposal would affect Utah's budget.

WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — The Utah Fraternal Order of Police is speaking out against any possible rush to judgment in the case of a 30-year-old West Jordan police officer and U.S. military veteran accused of domestic violence and kidnapping. James Harvie of Orem was being held in the Utah County Jail Tuesday in lieu of $250,000 cash-only bail after he was arrested last week on charges accusing him of assaulting two women last summer and threatening other law enforcement officers.

PREWITT, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say the man suspected of gunning down a tribal police officer on the nation's largest American Indian reservation was found hiding on a ridge not far from his home in rural western New Mexico. The McKinley County Sheriff's Office in a report obtained by the Navajo Times identified the suspect as Kirby Cleveland.

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Smithfield man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his father to death has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/2mKyk52) reports that 26-year-old Shane Alan Hallstrom pleaded guilty to murder in the death of his father, 58-year-old Calvin Leon Hallstrom.

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