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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's Mia Love became the latest Republican incumbent to fall in the Democratic wave of the midterm election that has seen more than three dozen GOP-held seats flipped across the country. According to results posted Tuesday, Democrat Ben McAdams defeated Love by fewer than 700 votes. McAdams touted himself as a moderate, and not a typical Democrat, in a pitch that seemed to resonate in the mostly suburban Salt Lake City district.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah House Democrats re-elected Minority Leader Brian King despite an allegation that he pushed a Republican state senator. King, D-Salt Lake City, was re-elected Tuesday even after state Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, filed a criminal complaint against King, claiming King pushed him last month in a hallway of the Senate Building at the Utah Capitol. King says he regrets the confrontation but says it was nothing close to being an assault, and he's confident he will not be prosecuted.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah ballot measure that creates an independent redistricting commission has narrowly passed. Final results released Tuesday night showed the proposition won by less than 1 percentage point after being virtually deadlocked through two weeks of vote counting. The proposition creates a seven-person commission that will draw up maps for new congressional and state legislative districts after the 2020 census. The state Legislature would then look them over and decide whether to approve them.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Actor James Cromwell was among animal rights protesters who held stiff carcasses of dead piglets as they demonstrated at the Utah Capitol, calling on state officials to prevent cruelty at farms and investigate health risks associated with large-scale agriculture. The 100 people participating in the protest staged Tuesday by Direct Action Everywhere were greeted by Michael Mower, Gov. Gary Herbert's deputy chief of staff.
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