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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Deeply conservative Utah has become a focal point for an effort to reduce the number of people on probation and parole. State corrections leaders and the chief prosecutor of Utah's most populous county signed on to a national push this month encouraging officials to use the tactics more sparingly. Earlier in the year, the overwhelmingly Republican state Legislature unanimously called for new guidelines for supervising offenders and eliminated mandatory parole for some charges.
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah couple ran into a different sort of hazard during a round of golf on Memorial Day near Salt Lake City. A young moose bigger than their golf cart chased them off the links at the Park City Golf Club.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah authorities are investigating concerns that a butcher shop inhumanely killed two pigs. Tooele County Attorney Scott Broadhead said Thursday his office is looking into Tooele Valley Meats after receiving word of a U.S. Department of Agriculture report referred by animal welfare activists. The report documents an incident last week in which a shop employee spent 15 minutes trying to kill a hog with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Highway Patrol is seizing more marijuana on state highways and interstates now that the drug has been legalized in a number of Western states. John Huber, the U.S. Attorney for Utah, says drug busts within the state's borders historically yielded only a few pounds per stop.
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