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It's tough to follow the news when you're finally off the clock and have time for yourself and your family. Rewind will help you catch up with all the happenings in Utah over the weekend.
Susan Powell detective says charges were coming • Susan Powell had been missing less than a day, and her husband, Josh, had just returned home from what he said was a winter camping trip. Among those in front of his house waiting for him was Detective Ellis Maxwell. Maxwell remains on the case. But 4½ years later, Maxwell still doesn't have any answers. "There's no evidence to support what happened to her," Maxwell said of Susan. Maxwell, the lead detective in the disappearance, believes Josh kidnapped and murdered his wife, and said prosecutors would have filed criminal charges against Josh in 2012 had he not committed suicide after murdering his two sons.
Experts: Supreme Court may not take Utah's same-sex marriage appeal • For Utah, it's Supreme Court or bust. After losing its appeal and becoming the first state in which a federal appeals court found marriage to be a fundamental right of all people gay, straight or otherwise Utah is done biding its time. The state wants resolution and finality. And it wants it now. But, experts warn, the path to the highest court in the country is anything but simple.
Utah Bucket List: Riding with cattle, family, history on the Tavaputs Plateau • Book Cliffs » Jeff Christensen has heard the phrase "the simple life" used to describe his sunrise-to-sunset profession. He isn't sure whether to take it as an insult or a compliment. "If you are talking about it like it is not hard work that is definitely not the case," said Christensen, a lifelong rancher now part of the Jensen family working the Tavaputs Ranch. "I guess you could call it simple in that we know there is always something to do, from day to day to day."
Same-sex couples married in Utah may have rights in 10 days • In 10 days, same-sex couples married in Utah may be able to apply for spousal benefits. A federal appeals court Friday denied Utah's request for a stay that would have indefinitely halted all movement toward providing gay and lesbian spouses benefits, pending the state's appeal of a lower court's ruling that ordered Utah to honor those unions.
Utah mom's plea: Let 12-year-old daughter into first grade • Salt Lake City mother Angie Watson is hoping for what once seemed impossible: She wants to see her 12-year-old daughter, Alexis, born with a rare genetic disorder, begin regular first grade this fall. Alexis Watson was born weighing 1½ pounds, and doctors said if she lived, she'd likely do little more in life than stare at the ceiling, her mother said. Instead, Alexis has surpassed everyone's expectations, although her physical and cognitive growth are still dramatically delayed she is the size and at the cognitive level of a 6-year-old. Seeing her daughter in a regular first-grade class "is like a parent's dream kind of come true for their special-needs kid," Watson said, "when you've been told for so many years she'd never do anything."
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