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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new police report says a Tesla that crashed in Utah while in Autopilot mode accelerated just before it smashed into a stopped firetruck. The incident report obtained by The Associated Press Thursday through a public records request also reveals that the driver told police she assumed the vehicle's automatic brakes would detect stopped traffic and stop. Tesla didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers are expressing concern about the possibility that voters could expand Medicaid after years of debate at the Legislature. A state analysis presented Thursday says the initiative poised to make the November ballot would eventually cost about $47 million more than a smaller expansion passed by lawmakers that still needs federal approval. Lawmakers' plan would cover about 70,000 more low-income people, while the ballot initiative would insure about twice as many people.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a rock climber died after falling 60 feet in a remote spot in southern Utah. Washington County Sheriff's Lt. David Crouse said in a news release Thursday that 63-year-old Fiorenzo Marino Antognini of St. George fell on Monday while climbing near the small town of Motoqua. Investigators don't suspect any foul play in Antognini's death. Antognini had more than 25 years of experience rock climbing, rappelling and base jumping.
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Utah police say they've found the body of a woman who disappeared on the way home from her English language class three years ago, shortly after she moved from Mexico. Authorities said Thursday Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado's death is being investigated as a homicide after her skeletal remains were found in Hobble Creek Canyon, several miles from where she was last seen. The 26-year-old Salgado was last seen in 2015 leaving class to walk home in Provo, about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City
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