KVNUFTP

• Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman resigns to become U.S. Ambassador to China
• Utah upsets Alabama in the Sugar Bowl and finishes season undefeated and ranked No. 2 in the country
• Elizabeth Smart testifies for first time about her 2002 abduction.
• Swine flu arrives in Utah
• More than 150 federal agents make two dozen arrests at Four Corners area for illegal collecting or trafficking in ancient American Indian artifacts
• U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman announces his Dec. 31 resignation.
• Woods Cross refinery explosion
• Logan irrigation canal collapses, killing 3
• The legend of Everett Ruess, an artist, poet and wanderer who vanished in 1934, appears solved until a second DNA lab says remains found in wild Utah redrock country are actually those of an Indian.
• The NSA announces it will build an electronic data center at Camp Williams
• Larry H. Miller dies
• Ken Salazar freezes the sale of 77 oil and gas leases around national parks and wild areas of Utah.
• Southern Utah polygamous sect sues to wrest back control of a communal land trust and challenges a court's appointment of a trustee to manage the FLDS property holdings
• LDS Church throws its support behind Salt Lake's proposed gay-rights ordinances
• Gov. Jon Huntsman and the Utah Legislature normalize the state's liquor laws, eliminating private club system.
• Ogden Police Officer and Trolley Square hero Ken Hammond arrested on charges of sex act with a teen girl in 2005
• Court battles continue over EnergySolutions plans to dispose of radioactive waste in Utah.
• ATK Space Systems tests next generation Ares moon rocket successfully, but plans for the space program come under question of Obama administration
• Hogle Zoo sees a series of births including three Amur tigers, a giraffe, an elephant, a snow leopard and two golden lion tamarin monkeys.

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