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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A jury has found that Washington state officials were partially responsible for the deaths of missing Utah woman Susan Cox Powell’s children at the hands of their father. The News Tribune newspaper reported jurors on Friday awarded $98 million to the estates of Charlie and Braden Powell. Josh Powell was a suspect in the presumed killing of his wife in 2009 and living in Pierce County, Washington, in 2012, when he killed their two young sons Charlie and Braden and himself in an explosive house fire. The boys were visiting Josh Powell at his home on a supervised visit with a social worker when they were killed; Powell had locked the social worker outside.
SPRINGDALE, Utah (AP) — Zion National Park rangers are seeking information about vandalism at the park after several blue squares were found painted on the sandstone. A park spokesman said Friday that most of the paint was removed, but park staff often cannot restore vandalized sites to their former condition. Any vandalism to the parks is illegal, and repairing damaged sites can be costly and time consuming. The squares are believed to be part of a masonry or art project. They were found in the northwest corner of the park, about 1 mile south of the Wildcat Trailhead.
PROVO, Utah (AP) — The Utah County Commission will no longer consider a letter requesting that the county health department ask the governor to grant the county exemptions to the statewide public K-12 school mask mandate after a new state order seemingly addressed all concerns. The Daily Herald reported that Commissioner Bill Lee pulled the letter after a state order “clarified every single thing” requested. The order is effective until Dec. 31 and clarifies a number of exemptions. Those exemptions include children under 3, people with medical conditions preventing them from wearing a facial covering, students practicing social distancing and students eating and drinking outdoors.
CALIENTE, Nev. (AP) — Both pilots were killed when two small air-tankers collided in mid-air in southeast Nevada while assisting in the attack on a fast-moving wildfire that has burned more than 20 square miles near the Utah line. Recovery operations are underway but the pilots names have not been released. They had been dropping retardant on the flames of the human-caused fire about 150 miles northeast of Las Vegas before they collided just before 1 p.m. Thursday about 17 miles southeast of Caliente. More than 250 firefighters are continuing to battle the blaze Friday in extreme heat with high temperatures in excess of 100 degrees.
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