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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say the body of a man has been recovered from a Salt Lake City apartment building after a fire. Salt Lake City Fire Department officials say crews responded to a report of a blaze at Beck Street Apartments around 8:30 a.m. Sunday. The Deseret News reports that the man found dead has been identified as 51-year-old Jim Kavoukas. Salt Lake City police say Kavoukas was alone at the time of the fire that is being called accidental. They also say the victim died in the fire.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Republican US Senator from Utah blocked a vote on a bill to grant federal recognition to Montana's Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. The bill passed the House in September and was set for a consent vote on Thursday before Sen. Mike Lee objected. He said the BIA denied the tribe's petition for recognition in 2009. The move means the legislation will likely have to be reintroduced next year.
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert has proposed adding $5 million per year to fund public defenders, a move advocates say would be a step toward fixing a system can fall short for people who are accused of crimes and can't afford a lawyer. The Standard-Examiner reports the request comes after the state was sharply criticized in a 2015 report by the Sixth Amendment Center. Utah has since created a commission to improve indigent defense, though its director says the funding is still lower than other states.
PHOENIX (AP) — The federal government's shutdown presents visitors with a mixed bag at national parks and monuments in the US Southwest, home to some of the parks system's crown jewels. Hikers who already have backcountry permits can still hike down into the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona but visitors arriving at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico can only check out the surface, but not the cavern itself. And some other parks and monuments are closed entirely.
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