Trooper hurt in chase

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah Highway Patrol trooper was hurt during a high-speed car chase through Davis and Salt Lake counties.

The trooper tried to force a stolen Ford F-350 pickup truck to spin out during the chase on Tuesday night by colliding with it, but the pickup driver swerved at the trooper and sent him spinning into a utility pole.

The trooper suffered minor injuries. The trooper's maneuver caused the truck's tire to go flat and the chase ended with the arrest of the driver.

Campaign for zoo bond raises $641,000

SALT LAKE CITY -- A campaign for a $33 million bond to fund new exhibits at the Hogle Zoo has raised $641,000.

The money would fund an arctic exhibit and part of an African savanna replica. Most of the money for the campaign came from the zoo, including an $80,000 donation earlier this month.

Renew the Zoo campaign spokeswoman Maura Carabello says the money has been spent on outreach, including television ads and mailers. She says no public money that funds the zoo has been used in the campaign. A campaign to pass a $19.6 million bond for the Tracy Aviary has raised $24,000. Both measures are on the Nov. 4 ballot for Salt Lake County voters.

Body found on side of Interstate 80

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Highway Patrol says it has found the body of a woman who was in her 20s or 30s along the side of Interstate 80.

Trooper Cameron Roden told KSL-TV authorities got a call about 11 p.m. Tuesday that a pedestrian was jumping into traffic on I-80 near 1300 East.

When authorities arrived, they found a woman with blond hair, about 5-foot-5 and 150 pounds dead on the side of the road.

Roden says she was wearing an orange pumpkin shirt with a green zip-up hooded sweat shirt and blue jeans. Authorities were still trying to identify her Wednesday.

Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Rudy Taylor says the death may be the result of a hit-and-run, but no car parts were found at the scene to identify a possible vehicle.

Park City teacher wins national award

PARK CITY -- A Park City teacher has won a $25,000 national award.

Melissa Bott, a reading specialist at McPolin Elementary School, received the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award on Tuesday.

She's the only teacher to win the award this year in Utah and one of 80 recipients across the nation. Teachers cannot apply for the award and co-workers can't nominate others for it -- the foundation searches out educators to honor.

Bott, who has been teaching for nine years at McPolin, says she plans to spend part of the money on the school and use some to help finish her master's degree.

She says she was inspired to become an educator because of her mother and her third-grade teacher. Twenty-six Utah teachers have won the award since the state joined the program in 1997.

Contractor killed at Kennecott tailings facility

SALT LAKE CITY -- Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. says a 3,000-pound pipe crushed a truck driver to death at the company's tailings impoundment.

The company says William L. Kay, 81, was preparing to unload pipes Wednesday when one fell on him.

Kay's body was discovered by another contractor who was in a forklift to unload the pipes.

The impoundment collects ore waste from the production of copper.

Salt Lake County sheriff's Lt. Paul Jaroscak says his office referred the investigation to the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.

Evaluation ordered for woman arrested after fires

OGDEN -- A judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for a woman charged with setting several fires in Ogden.

Marianne Mancuso, 47, is charged with four counts of arson.

The mental evaluation was ordered in 2nd District Court on Monday.

Mancuso was arrested Oct. 21 after a string of fires in vacant homes near downtown. The area is slated for redevelopment.

Mancuso is being held at the Weber County Jail.

Her attorney, Gary Gale, said her bail has been set at $30,000. He expects Mancuso to enter a plea after the mental evaluation is complete.

A competency hearing is set for Dec. 15.

On Wednesday, another vacant house burned, the Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden reported in its online edition. It's the 11th fire in a vacant house in the area in recent weeks.