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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When Salt Lake City pursued the Winter Olympics more than two decades ago, competition was so fierce that lavishing International Olympic Committee members with gifts and favors seemed commonplace. Salt Lake City got caught in a bribery scandal that nearly derailed the plans for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Two decades later, the script has flipped. The IOC is struggling to find cities willing to host and Salt Lake City is a contender for 2030, despite the bribery scandal.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah County Commission and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert agreed to end their legal fight. The Deseret News reports the commission voted Monday to put forth a new nominee to the Utah Transit Authority's new board. Herbert later Monday accepted the nomination, and county leaders promised to drop their lawsuit. That new nominee: Kent Millington, former chairman of the Utah Transportation Commission.
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — The FBI has released the identity of a man who fatally shot himself and three other people and critically wounded a fifth person at a home in northwestern New Mexico last month. The FBI said Tuesday that the shooter in the Nov. 13 incident at a home in the Navajo Nation community of Tsayatoh was 41-year-old Anthony Bahe of Chinle, Arizona, and that the woman who was wounded is continuing to recover.
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — Pleasant Grove police say a 12-year-old boy is dead after being struck by a large truck Monday night. Police say the boy was in a crosswalk where the truck's driver apparently didn't see him as he made a right-hand turn on a red light.
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