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Odd and interesting news from around the West.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) β Eugene residents are showering police with both protest and praise after a controversial drug arrest.
People spoke out during a forum held days after officers arrested a 29-year-old man while a crowd surrounded them and screamed obscenities, reported the Register-Guard (http://bit.ly/2f4Y6yX).
Lt. Doug Mozan reviewed video footage and police reports of the incident. He told the Register-Guard that Walton was clinging to the bumper of a police car, requiring officers to gradually escalate their use of force.
Two videos show officers pinning Walton to the ground while using pepper spray and punching him. An officer's use of a Taser further agitated the crowd, which police estimate was as big as 50 people.
Speakers during the public forum at Monday's City Council meeting said officers used excessive force and didn't try to de-escalate the situation, while others defended police and called their actions courageous.
The arrest occurred at a park that has been used for drug use and sales, Eugene Police Chief Pete Kern told the council. He said officials plan to address the issues with enforcement and attracting "a broader group of people to the park."
Before the meeting, a few people spoke out against police brutality on the same street where the park is located.
"I'm pretty sure it's not legal to punch someone in the kidneys," said Eugene resident Gwendolyn Iris, who helped organize the protest. "I'm pretty sure many of those things I witnessed on that video are not legal, whether you are a police officer or not."
Eugene resident Eimar Boesjes said an "incredibly courageous" policewoman stayed calm when confronted by the crowd.
"I have an enormous respect for someone like that," he said. "I don't think I could do it."
Police Auditor Mark Gissiner says the incident is under review and that his office also intends to watch footage from officers who wore body cameras.
He said the results of his office's review could trigger a formal internal investigation.
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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) β Wildlife officials say a gray wolf that left its pack in northeastern Washington trekked 700 miles across Idaho and Canada before being shot in central Montana last month.
The Spokesman-Review reports (http://bit.ly/2eEgzQ4 ) the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department captured the male wolf in February and fitted it with a GPS tracking collar.
The wolf, which originated in the Huckleberry Pack, started wandering into Idaho in June. It then headed into British Columbia, where it crossed Lake Koocanusa before traveling southeast into Montana in July.
The wolf's journey came to an end in Judith Gap, Montana on Sept. 29 after it was killed by a federal wildlife officer, who had responded to a report of a wolf attacking sheep.
Wolves are protected by state endangered species rules in eastern Washington but can be hunted and trapped in Montana and Idaho.
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Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesman.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) β Authorities say nearly 3 dozen animals were killed when flames ripped through a Los Angeles pet shop.
Fire Inspector Joey Marron says the blaze was reported around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Lennox area.
Marron says firefighters rescued about 250 animals including rabbits and birds. He says 35 fish, reptiles and other animals died.
Officials suspect an electrical problem sparked the fire. Animal control officers and the pet store owner are assisting investigators.
A damage estimate was not immediately available.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) β A 36-year-old man has been arrested in an alleged hatchet attack at a bus stop in southeast Salt Lake City.
Police say two men were waiting for a bus on South Highland Drive at about 5 p.m. Monday when an argument broke out over whether the suspect was too drunk to board the Utah Transit Authority bus.
Det. Robert Ungricht told The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday (http://tinyurl.com/h35s6jd) the suspect then charged the other man with the hatchet. The victim was able to avoid being hit and wrestled the weapon away.
The suspect's name hasn't been released. He was booked on suspicion of aggravated assault, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and carrying and attempting to use a dangerous weapon in a fight.
He's also was wanted on outstanding warrants for past DUI, assault and traffic violations.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com
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RENO, Nev. (AP) β Nevada wildlife officials have released a female bear after she was captured near a highway in Reno.
KTVN-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2eksEcY ) that the state Department of Wildlife caught the bear Saturday near Interstate 580, where biologists believe she was finding human food sources.
Human-bear conflict specialist Heather Reich says the bear was getting into some trash, bird feeders and fruit trees. Reich says the area makes a poor bear habitat.
The bear was released in the Mt. Rose Foothills Monday afternoon. Before release, she was microchipped and fitted with a satellite tracking collar.
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Information from: KTVN-TV, http://www.ktvn.com
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LAS VEGAS (AP) β A major gift shop in Las Vegas has been purchased for $50 million.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2ekysmp ) that Bonanza Gift Shop's operator Haim Gabay purchased the store's Las Vegas Boulevard property on Friday for the large price. According to Clark County records, he was backed by a $25 million bank loan and a $10 million loan from the sellers.
The gift shop sits on 2 acres and claims to be the world's largest gift store.
The gift shop sale is just one of a number of expensive recent real estate deals in the area. This year investors have purchased The Shops at Crystals for $1.1 billion and a 50 percent stake in Fashion Show for $1.25 billion.
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Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) β Los Angeles County health officials are advising swimmers and surfers to stay out of the ocean for at least three days because of runoff from this week's storm.
The rain advisory issued Tuesday came a day after the low-pressure system brought showers, lightning and some downpours to the region.
Bacteria levels can increase significantly during and after rainstorms as contaminants in the runoff enter the ocean via storm drains, creeks and rivers.
The advisory is in place through Thursday, when another round of rain is expected.
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PHOENIX (AP) β State Rep. Cecilia Velasquez faces sentencing Dec. 1 in Maricopa County Superior Court after pleading guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful use of food stamps.
The 42-year-old Litchfield Park Democrat was indicted in June by a state grand jury on felony counts of fraud, theft and unlawful use of food stamps, but she later reached a plea agreement with state prosecutors.
The indictment accused Velasquez of fraudulently obtaining $1,726 in food stamp benefits between Nov. 1, 2013 and Jan. 31, 2015.
The plea deal calls for supervised probation, restitution and 100 hours of community service.
Velasquez is now serving her first term in the Arizona House. That term ends in January, and she dropped her re-election bid after being indicted.
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CODY, Wyo. (AP) β Repair work on the Wildwood Dam has killed trout and other fish on the Shoshone River.
The reservoir was drained last week to make way for the repairs on the nearly 100-year-old Willwood Dam northeast of Cody. Sediment flowed downstream of the dam, killing the fish almost immediately.
"We knew there was going to be an increase in turbidity," said Jason Burckhardt, a fisheries biologist for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. "What's going on now is outside the realm of turbidity. This is slurry."
Burckhardt said cutthroat, brown and rainbow trout as well as whitefish and suckers have all been found washed up along the river.
State environmental officials are investigating to determine whether any violations occurred. DEQ spokesman Keith Guille said that the turbidity waiver does not allow for sedimentation releases so extensive they would result in fish kills.
"We take very seriously a loss of fish and this amount of sediment (released) from Willwood Dam," said David Waterstreet, DEQ program manager for the Watershed Protection Program.
Willwood Irrigation District manager Todd Singbeil said the reservoir was drained to protect the safety of workers, and that he's confident the silt will be flushed out soon.
"The safety of the contractors is more important than the fish," Singbeil said.
Singbeil said the irrigation district had looked into removing some of the sediment before the drawdown, but the $5.6 million price tag was too much.
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Information from: The Cody Enterprise, http://www.codyenterprise.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) β A hospital will pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit by the city of Los Angeles contending it dumped a homeless woman with schizophrenia on Skid Row.
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced the settlement Tuesday, more than a year after his office sued Gardens Regional Hospital and Medical Center.
The suit claimed the 38-year-old woman was wearing paper hospital garb and had no phone, ID, money or medication when she was left at a downtown shelter in September 2014.
The suit said the hospital improperly discharged the same woman at least five times.
The hospital has since filed for bankruptcy. It did not comment on the settlement. City News Service reports the hospital will pay the $450,000 in civil penalties once a court approves its sale.
- By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) β Animal rights groups are challenging in court Utah's law banning secret filming of slaughterhouses and other agricultural facilities Tuesday after a similar measure was struck down in Idaho.
The activists say the Utah law that was passed amid a wave of similar measures around the country is designed to keep them from exposing inhumane or unsafe practices at places such as factory farms.
The state of Utah says it doesn't violate any constitutional protections and still allows filming from public places while also allowing abuse reports from whistleblowers. The measure makes the facilities safer by barring unskilled undercover operatives, state attorneys argue.
The hearing comes after a judge in Idaho found a similar law violates the First Amendment β a win for activists that they're aiming to repeat in eight states with similar rules.
Idaho is appealing that ruling.
At least five people have been charged under the Utah law since it was passed in 2012, though those cases have since been dropped.
Four were animal activists from California who were cited outside a large Iron County hog farm in 2015. The charges were later dropped because the farm didn't want to pursue them.
A woman who faced a misdemeanor count after being accused of filming a front-end loader dumping a sick cow outside a slaughterhouse in 2013 is a plaintiff in the case challenging the law, along with Animal Legal Defense Fund and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Media groups have also joined the lawsuit, saying the law violates the First Amendment.
The Animal Agriculture Alliance, U.S. Poultry and Egg Association and other groups have lined up to support the state.
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ALBANY, Ore. (AP) β A wrestling coach who pleaded guilty to sex crimes has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Prosecutor Keith Stein said 26-year-old Joel Aranda befriended teenage boys and groomed them for abuse while working as volunteer coach at Sweet Home High School.
He said Aranda attempted to abuse teenage boys after plying them with alcohol, and did abuse one student. Aranda also posed as promiscuous college co-eds to trick boys into sending him nude photographs. Of 11 teenagers contacted, seven responded with pictures or videos.
The Albany Democrat-Herald reports (https://is.gd/HLfo8P ) that Aranda apologized Monday, telling the court he betrayed the trust he was given.
He pleaded guilty last week to sex abuse, luring a minor and using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. He pleaded no contest to attempted sodomy and a different charge of sex abuse.
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This story has been corrected to show that Aranda is 26, not 21.
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Information from: Albany Democrat-Herald, http://www.dhonline.com
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) β A Sierra Vista man strangled his roommate during an argument, stuffed the body in a suitcase in a closet and hosted a barbeque for two other people the next day at the apartment, police said.
Keith Allen White, 50, was arrested Monday on suspicion of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the death of Brian Cook on Sunday, police said.
The body remained hidden in the suitcase when White hosted the barbeque attended by a relative of Cook, police Sgt. Sean Brownson told The Sierra Vista Herald (https://goo.gl/hB4ndd ).
"The relative came over for the barbecue, not knowing where (Cook) was. The whole time, he was dead in the closet with the door closed," Brownson said.
White remained jailed Tuesday after making an initial court appearance. It could not be immediately determined whether he has an attorney who could comment on the allegations.
Brownson said White confessed the killing to the relative, who called police after White fell asleep.
When the officers arrived, White had the "windows down and a fan blowing the odor of human decomposition out of the apartment," Brownson said.
Brownson, who interviewed White, said White spoke openly about what he had done.
"He kept calling it a 'faux pas'," Brownson said.
Officers saw blood trails leading from the closet into the living room, where the suitcase was near the front door, the Police Department said in a statement.
White "had been preparing to dispose of the body" when police arrived, the statement added.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) β A former Boulder County sheriff's deputy has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to smuggle marijuana edibles and chewing tobacco into the jail.
The sheriff's department says 33-year-old Tyler Paul Mason was arrested Tuesday and was released on bond.
No listed phone number could be found for Mason, and it wasn't immediately known if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
The sheriff's department says an inmate told investigators that Mason allegedly agreed to smuggle tobacco and edibles to another inmate while Mason was a deputy. Authorities claimed that undercover investigators saw a Longmont woman give Mason $160 to buy the contraband on Sept. 28.
Authorities say they seized the cash the next day. Mason was fired Oct. 12.
He's scheduled to appear in court Dec. 1.
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CLAREMONT, Calif. (AP) β The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating after human skeletal remains were found on the side of a freeway in Claremont.
The San Bernardino Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2f4AI4G ) that California Department of Transportation workers found the remains Monday on the side of Interstate 10 and called Claremont police to investigate. The sheriff's department took over the investigation.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's office removed the remains.
Police say the cause of death and the identity of the victim were not immediately known.
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Information from: The Sun, http://www.sbsun.com
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) β Eugene residents are showering police with both protest and praise after a controversial drug arrest.
People spoke out during a forum held days after officers arrested a 29-year-old man while a crowd surrounded them and screamed obscenities, reported the Register-Guard (http://bit.ly/2f4Y6yX).
Lt. Doug Mozan reviewed video footage and police reports of the incident. He told the Register-Guard that Walton was clinging to the bumper of a police car, requiring officers to gradually escalate their use of force.
Two videos show officers pinning Walton to the ground while using pepper spray and punching him. An officer's use of a Taser further agitated the crowd, which police estimate was as big as 50 people.
Speakers during the public forum at Monday's City Council meeting said officers used excessive force and didn't try to de-escalate the situation, while others defended police and called their actions courageous.
The arrest occurred at a park that has been used for drug use and sales, Eugene Police Chief Pete Kern told the council. He said officials plan to address the issues with enforcement and attracting "a broader group of people to the park."
Before the meeting, a few people spoke out against police brutality on the same street where the park is located.
"I'm pretty sure it's not legal to punch someone in the kidneys," said Eugene resident Gwendolyn Iris, who helped organize the protest. "I'm pretty sure many of those things I witnessed on that video are not legal, whether you are a police officer or not."
Eugene resident Eimar Boesjes said an "incredibly courageous" policewoman stayed calm when confronted by the crowd.
"I have an enormous respect for someone like that," he said. "I don't think I could do it."
Police Auditor Mark Gissiner says the incident is under review and that his office also intends to watch footage from officers who wore body cameras.
He said the results of his office's review could trigger a formal internal investigation.
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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) β Wildlife officials say a gray wolf that left its pack in northeastern Washington trekked 700 miles across Idaho and Canada before being shot in central Montana last month.
The Spokesman-Review reports (http://bit.ly/2eEgzQ4 ) the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department captured the male wolf in February and fitted it with a GPS tracking collar.
The wolf, which originated in the Huckleberry Pack, started wandering into Idaho in June. It then headed into British Columbia, where it crossed Lake Koocanusa before traveling southeast into Montana in July.
The wolf's journey came to an end in Judith Gap, Montana on Sept. 29 after it was killed by a federal wildlife officer, who had responded to a report of a wolf attacking sheep.
Wolves are protected by state endangered species rules in eastern Washington but can be hunted and trapped in Montana and Idaho.
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Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesman.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) β Authorities say nearly 3 dozen animals were killed when flames ripped through a Los Angeles pet shop.
Fire Inspector Joey Marron says the blaze was reported around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Lennox area.
Marron says firefighters rescued about 250 animals including rabbits and birds. He says 35 fish, reptiles and other animals died.
Officials suspect an electrical problem sparked the fire. Animal control officers and the pet store owner are assisting investigators.
A damage estimate was not immediately available.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) β A 36-year-old man has been arrested in an alleged hatchet attack at a bus stop in southeast Salt Lake City.
Police say two men were waiting for a bus on South Highland Drive at about 5 p.m. Monday when an argument broke out over whether the suspect was too drunk to board the Utah Transit Authority bus.
Det. Robert Ungricht told The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday (http://tinyurl.com/h35s6jd) the suspect then charged the other man with the hatchet. The victim was able to avoid being hit and wrestled the weapon away.
The suspect's name hasn't been released. He was booked on suspicion of aggravated assault, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and carrying and attempting to use a dangerous weapon in a fight.
He's also was wanted on outstanding warrants for past DUI, assault and traffic violations.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com
RENO, Nev. (AP) β Nevada wildlife officials have released a female bear after she was captured near a highway in Reno.
KTVN-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2eksEcY ) that the state Department of Wildlife caught the bear Saturday near Interstate 580, where biologists believe she was finding human food sources.
Human-bear conflict specialist Heather Reich says the bear was getting into some trash, bird feeders and fruit trees. Reich says the area makes a poor bear habitat.
The bear was released in the Mt. Rose Foothills Monday afternoon. Before release, she was microchipped and fitted with a satellite tracking collar.
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Information from: KTVN-TV, http://www.ktvn.com
LAS VEGAS (AP) β A major gift shop in Las Vegas has been purchased for $50 million.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2ekysmp ) that Bonanza Gift Shop's operator Haim Gabay purchased the store's Las Vegas Boulevard property on Friday for the large price. According to Clark County records, he was backed by a $25 million bank loan and a $10 million loan from the sellers.
The gift shop sits on 2 acres and claims to be the world's largest gift store.
The gift shop sale is just one of a number of expensive recent real estate deals in the area. This year investors have purchased The Shops at Crystals for $1.1 billion and a 50 percent stake in Fashion Show for $1.25 billion.
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Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) β Los Angeles County health officials are advising swimmers and surfers to stay out of the ocean for at least three days because of runoff from this week's storm.
The rain advisory issued Tuesday came a day after the low-pressure system brought showers, lightning and some downpours to the region.
Bacteria levels can increase significantly during and after rainstorms as contaminants in the runoff enter the ocean via storm drains, creeks and rivers.
The advisory is in place through Thursday, when another round of rain is expected.
PHOENIX (AP) β State Rep. Cecilia Velasquez faces sentencing Dec. 1 in Maricopa County Superior Court after pleading guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful use of food stamps.
The 42-year-old Litchfield Park Democrat was indicted in June by a state grand jury on felony counts of fraud, theft and unlawful use of food stamps, but she later reached a plea agreement with state prosecutors.
The indictment accused Velasquez of fraudulently obtaining $1,726 in food stamp benefits between Nov. 1, 2013 and Jan. 31, 2015.
The plea deal calls for supervised probation, restitution and 100 hours of community service.
Velasquez is now serving her first term in the Arizona House. That term ends in January, and she dropped her re-election bid after being indicted.
CODY, Wyo. (AP) β Repair work on the Wildwood Dam has killed trout and other fish on the Shoshone River.
The reservoir was drained last week to make way for the repairs on the nearly 100-year-old Willwood Dam northeast of Cody. Sediment flowed downstream of the dam, killing the fish almost immediately.
"We knew there was going to be an increase in turbidity," said Jason Burckhardt, a fisheries biologist for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. "What's going on now is outside the realm of turbidity. This is slurry."
Burckhardt said cutthroat, brown and rainbow trout as well as whitefish and suckers have all been found washed up along the river.
State environmental officials are investigating to determine whether any violations occurred. DEQ spokesman Keith Guille said that the turbidity waiver does not allow for sedimentation releases so extensive they would result in fish kills.
"We take very seriously a loss of fish and this amount of sediment (released) from Willwood Dam," said David Waterstreet, DEQ program manager for the Watershed Protection Program.
Willwood Irrigation District manager Todd Singbeil said the reservoir was drained to protect the safety of workers, and that he's confident the silt will be flushed out soon.
"The safety of the contractors is more important than the fish," Singbeil said.
Singbeil said the irrigation district had looked into removing some of the sediment before the drawdown, but the $5.6 million price tag was too much.
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Information from: The Cody Enterprise, http://www.codyenterprise.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) β A hospital will pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit by the city of Los Angeles contending it dumped a homeless woman with schizophrenia on Skid Row.
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced the settlement Tuesday, more than a year after his office sued Gardens Regional Hospital and Medical Center.
The suit claimed the 38-year-old woman was wearing paper hospital garb and had no phone, ID, money or medication when she was left at a downtown shelter in September 2014.
The suit said the hospital improperly discharged the same woman at least five times.
The hospital has since filed for bankruptcy. It did not comment on the settlement. City News Service reports the hospital will pay the $450,000 in civil penalties once a court approves its sale.
- By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) β Animal rights groups are challenging in court Utah's law banning secret filming of slaughterhouses and other agricultural facilities Tuesday after a similar measure was struck down in Idaho.
The activists say the Utah law that was passed amid a wave of similar measures around the country is designed to keep them from exposing inhumane or unsafe practices at places such as factory farms.
The state of Utah says it doesn't violate any constitutional protections and still allows filming from public places while also allowing abuse reports from whistleblowers. The measure makes the facilities safer by barring unskilled undercover operatives, state attorneys argue.
The hearing comes after a judge in Idaho found a similar law violates the First Amendment β a win for activists that they're aiming to repeat in eight states with similar rules.
Idaho is appealing that ruling.
At least five people have been charged under the Utah law since it was passed in 2012, though those cases have since been dropped.
Four were animal activists from California who were cited outside a large Iron County hog farm in 2015. The charges were later dropped because the farm didn't want to pursue them.
A woman who faced a misdemeanor count after being accused of filming a front-end loader dumping a sick cow outside a slaughterhouse in 2013 is a plaintiff in the case challenging the law, along with Animal Legal Defense Fund and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Media groups have also joined the lawsuit, saying the law violates the First Amendment.
The Animal Agriculture Alliance, U.S. Poultry and Egg Association and other groups have lined up to support the state.
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) β A wrestling coach who pleaded guilty to sex crimes has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Prosecutor Keith Stein said 26-year-old Joel Aranda befriended teenage boys and groomed them for abuse while working as volunteer coach at Sweet Home High School.
He said Aranda attempted to abuse teenage boys after plying them with alcohol, and did abuse one student. Aranda also posed as promiscuous college co-eds to trick boys into sending him nude photographs. Of 11 teenagers contacted, seven responded with pictures or videos.
The Albany Democrat-Herald reports (https://is.gd/HLfo8P ) that Aranda apologized Monday, telling the court he betrayed the trust he was given.
He pleaded guilty last week to sex abuse, luring a minor and using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. He pleaded no contest to attempted sodomy and a different charge of sex abuse.
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This story has been corrected to show that Aranda is 26, not 21.
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Information from: Albany Democrat-Herald, http://www.dhonline.com
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) β A Sierra Vista man strangled his roommate during an argument, stuffed the body in a suitcase in a closet and hosted a barbeque for two other people the next day at the apartment, police said.
Keith Allen White, 50, was arrested Monday on suspicion of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the death of Brian Cook on Sunday, police said.
The body remained hidden in the suitcase when White hosted the barbeque attended by a relative of Cook, police Sgt. Sean Brownson told The Sierra Vista Herald (https://goo.gl/hB4ndd ).
"The relative came over for the barbecue, not knowing where (Cook) was. The whole time, he was dead in the closet with the door closed," Brownson said.
White remained jailed Tuesday after making an initial court appearance. It could not be immediately determined whether he has an attorney who could comment on the allegations.
Brownson said White confessed the killing to the relative, who called police after White fell asleep.
When the officers arrived, White had the "windows down and a fan blowing the odor of human decomposition out of the apartment," Brownson said.
Brownson, who interviewed White, said White spoke openly about what he had done.
"He kept calling it a 'faux pas'," Brownson said.
Officers saw blood trails leading from the closet into the living room, where the suitcase was near the front door, the Police Department said in a statement.
White "had been preparing to dispose of the body" when police arrived, the statement added.
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) β A former Boulder County sheriff's deputy has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to smuggle marijuana edibles and chewing tobacco into the jail.
The sheriff's department says 33-year-old Tyler Paul Mason was arrested Tuesday and was released on bond.
No listed phone number could be found for Mason, and it wasn't immediately known if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
The sheriff's department says an inmate told investigators that Mason allegedly agreed to smuggle tobacco and edibles to another inmate while Mason was a deputy. Authorities claimed that undercover investigators saw a Longmont woman give Mason $160 to buy the contraband on Sept. 28.
Authorities say they seized the cash the next day. Mason was fired Oct. 12.
He's scheduled to appear in court Dec. 1.
CLAREMONT, Calif. (AP) β The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating after human skeletal remains were found on the side of a freeway in Claremont.
The San Bernardino Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2f4AI4G ) that California Department of Transportation workers found the remains Monday on the side of Interstate 10 and called Claremont police to investigate. The sheriff's department took over the investigation.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's office removed the remains.
Police say the cause of death and the identity of the victim were not immediately known.
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Information from: The Sun, http://www.sbsun.com
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