By NATE CARLISLE, Salt Lake Tribune

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Someone once said if you don't write it down, it didn't happen.

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has shown just what can happen if you do write it down.

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Someone once said if you don't write it down, it didn't happen.

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has shown just what can happen if you do write it down.

DRAPER, Utah - Ronnie Lee Gardner's head, covered by a black hood, remained upright. His body sat straight in the chair to which it was strapped.

As my eyes traveled down Gardner's left arm, past his dark blue jumpsuit, I saw his pale white skin appear below his elbow. Half a faded blue tattoo, some kind of diamond shape, stuck out from the restraint around his wrist.

SALT LAKE CITY - If Ronnie Lee Gardner's farm for troubled kids comes to fruition, it might bear the name of the people he shot and murdered.

"We want to emphasize the victims," said Tyler Ayres, a lawyer for Gardner.

U.S. Forest Service Special Agent Doug Roe stopped his truck and pointed to a creek flowing down the Pine Valley Mountains in Utah.
"If you hike up that drainage, you're guaranteed to find a grow, or a grow from last year," Roe said.

Sen. Orrin Hatch said he urged a presidential commutation of rapper John Forte's 14-year prison sentence on drug dealing charges because the musician is a "genius" who doesn't use drugs.
"He was no risk to society because he was not a drug user," Hatch, a Utah Republican, said Tuesday. "And, frankly, he's a genius."

SALT LAKE CITY -- One day after Utah's police board enacted greater sanctions for officers caught having sex on duty, a federal appeals court has ruled a Utah town had the right to reprimand an officer for an off-duty affair.

TEMPE, Ariz. -- As Utah debates how to treat undocumented immigrants, Arizona is watching new laws and an economic downturn drive away those workers, likely sending many to Utah.