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OGDEN — Both women caught trying the hide-the-heroin-under-the-baby gambit have pleaded guilty to charges.

Marta Rubelcaba, 42, of West Valley City, and Cynthia Lopez-Garnica, 28, of Salt Lake City, were each charged with second-degree felony drug distribution after their arrest Aug. 10 by the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force.

The strike force was following the pair from Salt Lake City on a tip that the two were delivering heroin to Ogden. When the car stopped in Bountiful, agents moved in and made the arrest out of concern the women had spotted the surveillance.

Agents found 38 grams of heroin in small balloons hidden under the 3-month-old baby in its car seat, according to charging documents.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah State University spinoff company thinks it has found a way to cut the cord and recharge electric transit buses through a wireless boost from charging pads embedded in concrete. It hopes to revolutionize road travel.

* Idaho poet Charles Potts will read from his work at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Room 101 of the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University, 700 E. 400 North, Logan, and at 7 p.m. Thursday during the Helicon West reading series at True Aggie Cafe, 117 N. Main, Logan. Last fall, Potts donated his collection to USU. The collection includes broadsides, correspondence, manuscripts, diaries and thousands of literary magazines and books Potts amassed from nearly five decades of writing and publishing poets.

lSEnS"Final Salute," the reading discussion series at Brigham City Library, continues at 7 p.m. Thursday with "Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq" by Kirsten A. Holmstedt. The discussion will be led by Kathryn MacKay, a professor of history at Weber State University in Ogden. The discussion is free and open to the public at the library, 26 E. Forest, Brigham City.