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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart says people with a history of child abuse and sexual violence like the one who kidnapped her should be housed as far away from schools as possible. Smart issued the statement Monday in response to finding out that a woman who helped kidnap her when she was a teenager is living in a Salt Lake City apartment a couple of blocks from a school. Utah's sex-offender registry lists Wanda Barzee as living near Parkview Elementary School while she's on federal supervised release.
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The U.S. government shutdown is causing anxiety and concern for thousands of Internal Revenue Service employees who work in the Ogden area. Jenny Brown, president of Local 67 of the National Treasury Employees Union, tells the Standard-Examiner that many employees are scaling back their spending on groceries and other items since they're unsure when they will see their next paycheck.
OREM, Utah (AP) — A retired U.S. Army sergeant from Utah has written a pair of children's books to help families cope with the deployment of their mother or father. The Daily Herald in Provo reports that Leslie Zimmerman said she was inspired to write the books after seeing her nieces and nephews struggle when her older sister was deployed. Zimmerman says children of deployed parents can suffer depression, anxiety and anger.
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Utah Highway Patrol officials say they didn't make any arrests under a lowered DUI threshold in the first 24 hours after the law took effect. Highway Patrol Col. Michael Rapich said Monday that eight DUI arrests were made in that time frame, but all were over the old threshold of 0.08 percent blood-alcohol limit. The new threshold is 0.05 percent, the lowest in the United States. The highway patrol stats don't include patrols by city and county officials.
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