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PROVO A former Mapleton City financial recorder was sentenced to jail Thursday for taking city gift cards and postage stamps and selling them on eBay. Judge James Taylor suspended a one- to 15-year prison sentence for Jeannie Kay Bell's second-degree felony theft conviction and sentenced her to 90 days in jail. In a rare move, Taylor gave Bell credit for 35 days spent in jail, including 33 days spent in the Clark County Jail after she fled the state and traveled to Las Vegas. Taylor also allowed Bell to spend the remaining jail time on GPS monitoring and gave her...

A former ranger at Elephant Butte State Park will spend a year on electronic monitoring for fatally shooting a man who refused to pay his permit fee. District Attorney Scot Key says that Clyde Woods was sentenced Wednesday in state district court in Truth or Consequences to six years for voluntary manslaughter and given a seventh year for because of a firearm enhancement. Key says, though, that all but one year was suspended. Woods will spend the remaining year under house arrest with an ankle bracelet and GPS locator. Woods was charged with shooting Bruce Teschner on the evening of...