Polygamy goes on trial in Utah LOGAN, Utah (AP) - A man accused of beating his daughter after she ran away from an arranged marriage to his brother goes on trial Wednesday in a case that has many calling for a crackdown on Utah polygamy. John Daniel Kingston, 43, is charged with felony child abuse for allegedly beating his 16-year-old daughter. The girl, now living in foster care, says her father drove her to a family owned farm near the Idaho line in May and whipped her for disobeying Daniel Ortell Kingston, who had made her his 15th wife. But to many, the real defendant in the case is not the father, but a way of life in Utah that has survived in the shadows for more than a century. Though polygamy is banned by the state constitution and denounced by the Mormon church, the attorney general's office estimates there are 25,000 practitioners in Utah alone. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559244434-fa4> Lions may be shot to save bighorns RENO, Nev. (AP) - The Fish and Wildlife Service declared the Sierra Nevada bighorn an endangered species Tuesday, a move that could lead to the shooting of mountain lions found to have preyed on the sheep. Only about 100 adult bighorns survive in the High Sierra wilderness, mostly around Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon national parks in California and along the Nevada line. "Time is running out for the Sierra Bighorn," said John Wehausen, president of the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation in Bishop, Calif. Federal biologists determined the bighorns warrant emergency protection under the Endangered Species Act on at least a temporary basis due primarily to threats of disease from domestic sheep and predation from the mountain lions. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559244136-04a> Calif. to test non-polluting cars SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford Motor Co. and the state of California are teaming up to road test up to 50 cars and 20 buses powered by the futuristic technology of fuel cells. "Our long-term goal is very simple: zero emissions in the air," Gov. Gray Davis said Tuesday at a news conference featuring two prototypes: a small Mercedes that looked much like a Volkswagen Beetle and a Ford sedan similar in size to the company's Taurus. Fuel cells produce electricity through the chemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen. The result is power to run vehicles with little or no pollution. Ten percent of new cars sold in California must be zero-emission vehicles starting in 2003, under State Air Resources Board rules. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559244172-011>
