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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — A new state audit report has revealed that a number of small cities and towns across Utah are increasingly relying on traffic fines to fund their budgets. For some municipalities, fines account for more than 10% of their annual revenue, raising concerns about the potential for traffic enforcement to become more about financial gain than public safety. The report highlights several towns with notable increases in traffic fine revenue. Orderville, Utah, saw the most significant rise, with a more than 8% jump in traffic fine revenue from the previous year. Vernal followed closely with a…

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — Jared Dallan Buckley, the lead director of the Leadership Learning Academy, a K-6 charter school, was arrested Tuesday on multiple felony charges related to child sexual exploitation. Buckley, 40, faces two first-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and one second-degree felony count of sexual exploitation of a minor. The arrest follows a lengthy investigation that began after law enforcement officers in New York received information about a man selling and distributing child sexual abuse material. Authorities in New York believed the individual was operating out of Utah and subsequently reached out…