Rocky aims to put end to 'snipe' signs
Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson wants you to know that if you put up a sign to help find your lost dog or advertise a yard sale, the city will not hunt you down."I have asked our enforcement officers to use common sense . . . ," Anderson said. "We have no interest in hounding the neighborhood garage sale, much less worried pet owners. Our target is the businesses who abuse the public right of way,"
Those businesses are the three-cents-per-hour-long-distance and similar companies who plaster fliers all over the place.
Earlier this week Anderson announced the city would tear down illegal "snipe" signs -- notices tacked to telephone poles and the like -- and cite the perpetrators.
The mayor can relate to lost pets. Recently his own dog got lost and was recovered with the help of neighborhood signs. (He took them down after Winston was found).
"One of my staffers recently saw a sign on a telephone pole about someone's lost parakeet," he said. "The city certainly won't cite anyone for that sign, and we hope for a happy return of the parakeet."
Bridge work on I-80 goes till December
Work is continuing on I-80 bridge rehabilitation at 300 East, 500 East and 600 East.
Two-way traffic under those three bridges is generally being maintained, though it may be shifted to one side. Also, traffic could be halted for up to 10 minutes at times during the next few days while crew locate cables in the middle of the bridges -- directly above traffic lanes.
One sidewalk is also being left open under each of the bridges for pedestrians.
Alternate routes are available for motorists on State Street and 700 East.
Lane closures may also sometimes take place during off-peak hours on I-80, between Highland Drive and Parleys Canyon.
This $9 million project will be completed by December.
Hill is too important to close, officials say
HILL AIR FORCE BASE (AP) -- With nearly 2,000 workers filling new jobs at Hill Air Force Base, Air Force officials think Hill now is too important to land on the Pentagon's base-closing list.
The Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill emerged from a 1995 round of base closings as one of three surviving air logistics centers in the Air Force. The other two survivors are Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia and the Oklahoma Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base.
"We believe the increasing diversity of our mission and the growing size of the work force will substantially increase Hill's chances of surviving another BRAC round," said Bruce Collins, base director of public affairs.
Hill picked up the new jobs as the work load from air logistics centers at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas and McClellan Air Force Base in California. Those bases were closed after the 1995 round of base closings.
Mom gets 8-10 years for starving daughter
COLDWATER, Mich. (AP) -- A Utah woman accused of killing her adopted 3-year-old daughter was sentenced today.
Becky Tucker, already serving a five-year sentence in Utah for nearly starving her daughter Brittany to death, was sentenced to eight to 10 years by Judge Michael Cherry Friday morning in Branch County Circuit Court.
Tucker was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree child abuse in the 1995 death of Danielle Tucker in Coldwater, where she and her husband were living at the time.
She had pleaded no contest to child abuse in exchange for dropping the murder charge, which carried a penalty of up to life in prison.
Prosecutors said Tucker pushed Danielle down a flight of stairs at the family's home in 1995, originally telling police the fall was an accident.