Are you sure this wasn't on the network news?
It was covered by almost every media source on the internet.
Maybe I was not doing the google search at optimum. I searched virgin river rescue utah 2012, and came up with nothing on the first page. I did virgin river rescue Utah 2012 gun and came up with a story in a San Luis Obispo paper from AP, and the story in the Daily Mail from the UK on the first google page that came up.
Perhaps it got more coverage than I thought.