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TEEN MOMS-DAYCARE

Utah high school program seeking to help teen moms

(Information from: Standard-Examiner, http://www.standard.net)

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah high school's new child-care program is helping young parents finish their education and spend more time with their children.

The Standard-Examiner reports several young mothers are the first to access the re-vamped child care program at Two Rivers High School in Ogden, which opened at the beginning of the school year.

The school had a similar child-care program that shuttered in 2016 because there wasn't enough interest to justify funding. About eight children ages 4 months to 2 years are enrolled in the program.

Principal Nicole Meibos says district officials and community donors helped re-launch the program.

Student Sydnee Daily says the program has helped her 5-month-old daughter Mila learn new skills and become more social.

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MISSING TECH CEO

Utah tech CEO reported missing in San Francisco Bay Area

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The CEO of a Utah-based tech company has been reported missing during a business trip to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Family members say Erin Valenti, head of Tinker Ventures, was last seen in Palo Alto on Monday.

Her husband, Harrison Weinstein, wrote on Facebook that phone activity suggests Valenti may have been driving in San Jose. He says she never returned her rental car or made it on her flight back to Utah.

KRON-TV reported Friday that San Jose police are calling it a voluntary missing person case, meaning they think she left on purpose.

Valenti's family disagrees and says the CEO seemed to be distraught on the night she disappeared.

Valenti is described as 5-foot-4 with blond hair. She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and jeans.

Tinker Ventures is an app developer based in Salt Lake City.

UBER-MET BUST

Police: Man used Uber to transport meth in Utah

(Information from: The Daily Herald, http://www.heraldextra.com)

PROVO, Utah (AP) — An Uber passenger in Utah is facing charges after police say he used the ride-hailing service to transport nearly 11 pounds of methamphetamine.

The Provo Daily Herald reports Edgar Esteban Ramos Valdez was arrested Friday following a confrontation with a Provo, Utah, officer who spotted the Uber passenger acting nervously.

According to a police report, an Uber driver picked up the 22-year-old Valdez at a Provo hotel and came into the vehicle with the bag of meth.

The Uber driver drew police attention by following too closely and making improper lane changes.

The suspicious officer brought in a K-9 to the scene and found the bag of drugs.

Valdez was charged with possession of illegal drugs with intent to distribute. It was not known if he had an attorney.

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DRIVER RESCUED

Trio pulls woman from burning car after Utah crash

MAPLETON, Utah (AP) — Police in Utah say three unidentified passersby acted quickly to save a driver who crashed her car and became trapped inside the burning vehicle.

The Daily Herald in Provo reported the crash was next to convenience store in suburban Mapleton.

Mapleton Police Chief John Jackson says the trio broke the car window and pulled a woman from behind the driver's wheel to safety. The car had jumped a curb and erupted in flames after hitting a large power supply box between two trees.

Authorities say the woman was not seriously hurt. She was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and with a suspended license, as well as operating the car without a required interlock device to prevent impaired driving.

COLLEGE STUDENTS-RECORDS FIGHT

UVU students win records fight over campus police reports

OREM, Utah (AP) — A state records committee has ruled that Utah Valley University Police can no longer charge student reporters for incident reports.

The Daily Herald report s the committee unanimously voted Thursday in favor of making the incident reports free to UVU student journalists.

Police used to provide the documents to student reporters for free but begun charging them $5 per report in 2017.

The Utah chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists helped students at the UVU Review, the campus newspaper, challenge the move.

Chapter President Eric Peterson said the decision will help students keep the public safe and informed. He said campus police shouldn't "price reporters out of doing their jobs."

UVU spokesman Scott Trotter said the school respected the committee's decision and would abide by it.

THREATENED OWL-TIMBER PROJECTS

US forest managers want judge to clarify tree-cutting ban

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is asking a federal judge to reconsider an earlier order that banned tree-cutting across thousands of square miles of Southwest forest.

The ruling stemmed from a 2013 case that alleged the agency failed to consider the effects of thinning and logging on the threatened Mexican spotted owl and its habitat.

The Forest Service says without clarification, efforts to mitigate wildfire threats will be compromised until at least 2023 when data on the owl population is expected.

Environmentalists say the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest Service have failed to track the bird's numbers.

The ban excludes personal firewood cutting permits that rural residents rely on, but it does prohibit thinning projects, prescribed burns and commercial wood cutting across all five national forests in New Mexico and the Tonto National Forest outside Phoenix.

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