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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.
Mountain lion tranquilized in Pleasant Grove neighborhood
A mountain lion was tranquilized and later released in a safe location after being located in a tree near a hiking trail in Pleasant Grove, officials said.
Around 11 a.m. Friday in the area of 800 S. along the Murdock Canal Trail, officers responded to reports of a mountain lion in a tree, according to Capt. Mike Roberts of Pleasant Grove Police Department. It was believed a dog near one of the residences bordering the trail scared the mountain lion up into the tree before officers arrived, Roberts said.
Due to the proximity of the mountain lion to the hiking trail, officers with the Department of Wildlife Resources were called to the scene where they tranquilized the animal, according to Roberts. The mountain lion then ran about one block west and entered an open garage.
2nd escaped murderer is shot, captured after other killed
The second of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape three weeks ago from a maximum-security prison in northern New York was shot and captured near the Canadian border on Sunday, two days after his fellow inmate was killed in a confrontation with law enforcement, authorities said.
"The nightmare is finally over," Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared at a news conference. A state police sergeant shot David Sweat in the town of Constable, about 1½ miles south of the Canadian border and 30 miles northwest of the prison, after spotting him walking along a road and recognizing him, Cuomo said.
After 6 decades, woman finally meets her long-lost sisters
Growing up, Carol Brennan Moss always felt like she was missing something.
"I knew I was adopted (so) I always wondered where I came from, who I looked like (and) where my personality came from," said Moss.
Since Moss' adoptive mother was sensitive about Moss finding her birth parents, Moss waited until after she passed away to begin her genealogy research.
FrontRunner accident kills elderly woman, injures husband
A woman was killed and her husband injured after the truck they were in was hit by a FrontRunner train Saturday.
A truck driven by an elderly man about 6 p.m. became stuck on the railroad tracks between the crossing grades, and was then hit by a FrontRunner train.
"The man may have not gotten across the tracks before the arm on the opposite side came down, and he may have gotten confused and stopped on the tracks," said Remi Barron, Utah Transit Authority spokesman.
National LGBT group denounces World Congress of Families conference
The Human Rights Campaign announced Saturday it will hold its own conference to spread the message of love and acceptance to counter what it said is the hateful bias promoted by the World Congress of Families and its "world gathering" planned in Salt Lake City this fall.
The dueling conferences pit the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, against the world congress, an organization that describes itself as an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars and leaders that promote the "natural family" as the fundamental social unit.
Braving this summer's first heat wave of triple-digit temperatures, representatives from multiple groups spoke at a news conference at the Utah Capitol, passionately announcing that Utah is no place for such a discriminatory gathering this October.
