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Utah highway crosses get a makeover

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 18, 2011 - 6:25pm

Utah highway crosses get a makeover

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New battle begins over cross in Mojave Desert

Doug Begley, Richard K. De Atley The Press-Enterprise

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 2:45pm

A new battle has been joined over the placement of a cross on federal land in the Mojave Desert.

Federal rangers on Tuesday removed a cross erected on Sunrise Rock in the Mojave Desert east of Baker, Calif., the same location where an earlier cross was taken down in a legal battle over whether a religious symbol should be allowed on public land.

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Utah Highway Patrol troopers stand at attention during the July 2002 dedication of two memorial markers erected to honor Lt. S. Rettberg and Trooper George Dee Rees, both of whom were killed in the line of duty. (ROBERT JOHNSON/Standard-Examiner)

Supreme Court avoids dispute over Utah highway crosses

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 10:08pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would not hear an appeal of a ruling that 12-foot-high crosses along Utah highways in honor of dead state troopers violate the Constitution.

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