5 stories you may have missed this weekend

5 stories you may have missed this weekend

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SALT LAKE CITY — Here are five local stories you may have missed this weekend. As always, click on the headline to read the full story.

Zion's trees are dying of old age

It's a trend that might sadden the hearts of millions who love Zion National Park. One of Zion Canyon's most beautiful features is fading away — and the process may be unstoppable.

The canopy of cottonwood trees that provides a vivid slash of green in many photos of the canyon's famous red-rock may survive only another three to five decades. That's the prediction of Dave Sharrow, a National Park Service hydrologist who's been monitoring the trend in one of the country's most beloved national parks.

Family of missing Provo woman hasn't given up hope

"They haven't found her yet?" a passing motorist asks out his window, glancing at the picture of the young, dark-haired woman.

"No, not yet," replies one member of the slowly marching crowd.

A month has come and gone since Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado, 26, walked out of the downtown center where she was studying, disappearing without a trace in the middle of the day. She had come from her home in Chiapas, Mexico, just a few weeks before.

The debate over police body camera use ongoing in Utah

How or whether the state should govern the use of police body cameras will be subject of much debate among Utah legislators and law enforcement over the next few months.

A legislative committee tackled the issue for the first time Wednesday since shelving a bill earlier this year that would have required police agencies to set their own policies based on minimum state guidelines.

But numerous questions about privacy rights, when officers turn the cameras on and off, and the public's access to the video make drafting legislation complicated.

Family heartbroken over son's rare, degenerative disease

Landon Caputo, age 3, smiled while his 5-year-old sister, Izzy, pushed him on the swing. For years, his medical problems were a mystery.

"It's heartbreaking," said Ashley Caputo, Landon's mother. "There's no other way to describe it. Every day our heart break just a little bit more."

He has infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy — an extremely rare, inherited neurological disorder that affects axons, the part of the nerve cell that carries messages from the brain to other parts of the body, according to the NIH.

Sculptor hopes new statue brings comfort to families of buried infants

Scott Streadbeck has sculpted statues before, so he knows how nerve-racking it is to put them into place.

But this one kept him awake.

"Mostly it was last night. I was asleep and I kept waking up. I had one dream it melted in the night," Streadbeck said Saturday with a laugh.

It's not because his bronze statue of a man and woman holding a baby is any heavier or bigger than others he has done before. It's just that this one means more to him.

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