U.S. District Judge Dee Benson has dismissed Judy's federal lawsuit against Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, and Utah election officials.

Judy claimed his rights were violated because pencils were not made available at the polls for voters to write in his name. He argued that had they been provided and his name displayed as a write-in candidate at the polls, it may have reversed his 626,640-to-16 vote loss to Bennett.

Judy previously spent eight years in prison after trying to declare himself the true prophet of God and threatening a fireside group at Brigham Young University with a purported bomb.

Two for one: The Utah Republican Party is still seething over the mysterious "Truth in Politics" flier - mailed to selected homes just before last November's election - that maligned several Republican office holders in Salt Lake County.

Three of those office holders lost their bids for re-election and they blamed their demise on those fliers, which eventually were tied to the Utah Democratic Party.

Now, two of those victims - former Salt Lake County Council member Steve Harmsen and former state Sen. James Evans - have decided to run for Salt Lake County Republican chairman, which means the issue of the Democrats' sleazy flier will remain at the forefront of the 2006 campaign.

Harmsen and Evans initially had planned to discuss which of the two would run, and the other would support him. But they confirmed last week they are both running.

Said Harmsen: "It will be good for the party to have two good candidates to choose from."

Good sportsmanship: The Juan Diego Catholic High School softball team was headed to St. George earlier this month for the spring 3-A softball tournament when its bus broke down on I-15 near Parowan.

Players feared they would be late for the tourney, when a bus carrying the Emery High School softball team happened by and stopped to see what was wrong.

"Hop on," said the Emery bus driver to his team's rivals, and they all made it to the tournament on time.

Meanwhile, the Iron County School District located fan belts for Juan Diego's bus and got it fixed in time for the team to travel back home to Draper.

It's about time: The Utah Department of Workforce Services has posted a job opening in its American Fork office for a "rational administrator."

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