Good afternoon! Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up in Utah.
Questions about today’s coverage plans are welcome and should be directed to AP-Salt Lake City bureau at 801-322-3405. Supervisor Brady McCombs can be reached at 801-322-3405 or bmccombs@ap.org
A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change. Expected stories may not develop, or late-breaking and more newsworthy events may take precedence. Advisories, digests and digest advisories will keep you up to date. All times are Mountain.
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PUBLIC LANDS FIGHT
SALT LAKE CITY - Republican lawmakers on a state public lands panel are praising a new report that says Utah could afford to manage about 30 million federally-controlled acres if the state somehow got control over that land. Lawmakers on Wednesday reviewed the nearly 800-page report, which is part of Utah’s push to gain control of land in federal hands. By Michelle L. Price. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 500 words by 1:30 p.m. MST.
PRISON RELOCATION
SALT LAKE CITY - A panel of lawmakers is expected to give an update Wednesday afternoon on their search for a site to build a new state prison. The state Prison Relocation Commission has narrowed created a shortlist from 26 possible sites, but has not yet publicly identified the locations. By Michelle L. Price. UPCOMING: 350 words by 4:30 p.m. MST.
POLYGAMY-ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
SALT LAKE CITY - One of the largest organized polygamy groups in Utah is investigating an allegation that its leader years ago molested one of his daughters who is now featured in a reality TV show. David Watson, a spokesman for the Apostolic United Brethren, or AUB, said Wednesday they are looking into the allegations but wouldn’t elaborate on an internal probe. Rosemary Williams of “My Five Wives” on TLC wrote in a blog posted last month that she was molested more than two decades ago by her father, Lynn A. Thompson. By Brady McCombs. UPCOMING: 400 words by 4 p.m. MDT.
MUMMY LAKE MYSTERY
MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, Colo. - Was it a reservoir, a ceremonial plaza, a ball court? Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is taking a new look at a ruin known as Mummy Lake in hopes of determining how ancient Puebloans used it, The Cortez Journal reported Monday. SENT: 500 words, AP Photo COCCJ101.
IN BRIEF:
- HELICOPTER CRASH-UTAH - Police say two men killed when a helicopter crashed into an empty building north of Salt Lake City were both from northern Utah.
- OBAMA-CLIMATE-CITIES - The White House is singling out Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and 13 other cities for leading their peers in efforts to address climate change.
- BODY-JORDAN RIVER - Authorities say a body found in the Jordan River earlier this week belongs to a 30-year-old Murray woman whose disappearance nine weeks ago triggered a vigorous search.
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