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New survey shows support for Common Core among local politicians

DeChristopher appeals conviction

Utah environmental activist Tim DeChristopher appeals conviction

An environmental activist is seeking to overturn his two-year sentence for disrupting a federal oil-and-gas auction of public lands near Utah's national parks.

DeChristopher supporters celebrate activist's removal from solitary confinement

Utah activist released from prison isolation unit

Lawyers for a prominent environmental activist say he has been released from an isolation unit at a federal prison and placed back into a minimum-security camp.

Lawyers say Utah activist being punished in prison

Lawyers for an environmental activist convicted of disrupting a federal oil-and-gas auction say the man has been put into isolation at a federal prison because of an unidentified congressman's complaint.

Overkill or justice? Costly 5-year-old artifacts case nets no prison time and 3 suicides, but retrieves Native American treasures and raises awareness

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Activist Timothy DeChristopher sentenced to 2 years in prison

Man says he had no plan to harm drilling auction

A Utah man hailed as a symbol of opposition to U.S. oil and gas drilling policy told a federal jury Wednesday that he had no advance plan to thwart a government auction where he won $1.7 million in leases he couldn't afford.

Lawyer: Fake Utah drilling bids were 'sabotage'

Tim DeChristopher, ex-wilderness guide, looked like trouble.

Trial begins in Utah oil-gas lease auction case

Jury selection is under way in the trial of a Utah environmental activist who's charged with sabotaging a 2008 federal oil-and-gas auction by buying up $1.7 million of leases in an act of civil disobedience.

Sparks fly on Capitol hill during BLM director's visit to Utah

A clearly frustrated Gov. Gary Herbert was joined by other top Utah officials Friday, taking the head of the national Bureau of Land Management to task over a new order directing how "wild lands" designations are made.