If state officials were to put a face on a domestic-violence murder victim in Utah, it would be that of a married Latino woman who’d been with her partner eight years before being shot to death at home. That portrait comes from a new report released Tuesday by the Utah Department of Health’s Violence and Injury Prevention Program and highlights, among other findings, the need to reach out to underserved communities, officials said.

AMERICAN FORK — Artistic glass adorning LDS Church temples and other buildings around the world bears the creative handiwork of Debora Zalazar and her husband, Claudio Correa. The Argentine couple moved to Utah to work on projects that reflect their deeply held religious beliefs. Zalazar is meticulous about creating scriptural scenes on stained glass. Correa painstakingly etches each flower and scroll to the last detail, including all the glass in the Draper Temple.

The United States Census Bureau reports that 12 percent of the nation\'s population is foreign-born, and more than half of the immigrants are not citizens. The census also reveals that 33 percent of the population is native-born with at least one parent from another country, which means that one in five individuals is either a first- or second-generation U.S. resident. More than half of the immigrants were born in Latin America.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down an Arizona requirement that residents prove U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote but upheld a mandate that they present identification before casting their ballots. Opponents of the 6-year-old law incorporating both provisions -- designed to prevent illegal immigrants from voting -- said the ruling would likely lead to thousands being turned away at next Tuesday\'s elections for lacking the required identification records.

CARSON CITY, Nev., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Sharron Angle, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Nevada, released a campaign advertisement on illegal immigration that Hispanic groups say is racist. Angle\'s ad, featuring burly Hispanic-appearing men toting weapons and showing up in police mug shots, says incumbent Democratic Sen. Harry Reid is tolerant of illegal immigrants, The Christian Science Monitor and The Atlantic in Washington reported Tuesday.

Like he had done every year since 1997, Ricardo Carmona left his life and his family in Salvatierra, Guanajuato, México, this summer to work in Utah. He already had planned everything for his return to Mexico on Nov. 20. He couldn\'t wait to get home to meet his new, 2-month-old son, Jesus Adrian, to be reunited with his little girl, Jimena, 7, and to hold Taresa, the love of his life. Unfortunately, those much-awaited reunions will not take place.

SALT LAKE CITY — An already contentious Salt Lake County district attorney race is ratcheting up with a new topic of sharp disagreement. The issue: allegations of racism and electioneering by deputies serving under incumbent District Attorney Lohra Miller. Miller doesn\'t dispute that the comment in question was made, but she takes sharp exception to the perspective of her Democratic opponent, who says it\'s another sign something is \"broken\" in the office.

AUSTIN -- Whenever Linda Chavez-Thompson, Democratic nominee for Texas lieutenant governor, swings into the heavily Hispanic areas along the border, she unfailingly seeks to fire up her audiences with an impassioned plea to get them to the voting booth. \"I go out there to try to get them angry,\" Chavez-Thompson said. \"My message has been, if you\'re tired of being ignored, go out and vote so you can hold people accountable.\"

PHOENIX - One of the judges deciding whether Arizona should be able to enforce its own immigration law was nearly deported, wrongfully, as a college student. Carlos Bea, who became a resident alien in 1952, detailed for other judges three years ago how a mistake he made in applying for a visa while visiting Spain resulted in a hearing officer declaring that he had fled from the U.S. to avoid the draft. Bea managed to get the Board of Immigration Appeals to overturn that ruling.

Immigration reform would not only be dead in a Republican House; the policy debate would take a decidedly rightward turn in the House Judiciary Committee, which could become a hotbed of conservative activism on one of the most volatile issues in U.S. politics.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- If everyone in the world who wanted to come to the United States actually came, by whatever means, the country would be swamped from sea to shining sea. Even the recession that seems to consume the American political process, while it may be keeping fresh waves of illegal aliens from coming here, hasn\'t convinced a large proportion of those already here to leave. Though the U.S. economy has gone south, most illegal immigrants aren\'t following that example.

The Republican tsunami could inundate California. Maybe Republican Meg Whitman will defy the latest polls and defeat Democrat Jerry Brown for governor. Republican Carly Fiorina could catch Sen. Barbara Boxer. Some Republican candidates on down the ballot might win office

Writing a column that potentially millions of people will read takes careful thought and research. I try to do just that, week in and week out. But I must say today I also am writing from my gut. I am outraged. You know that kind of outrage that you feel in the pit of your stomach? That\'s the kind I feel.

Recently, Hispanics have been characterized as apathetic towards the upcoming midterm election. In Nevada there are 224,000 Latino voters, 30 percent of the population of Nevada, and if they don`t show up on November 2nd, the former Nevada assemblywoman, Sharron Angle will be their next senator. But a series of offensive ads or comments made by Angle may so anger, so outrage Hispanics, that they`ll be motivated enough to block Angle at the door to power.

SALT LAKE CITY — A criminal investigation of two former state workers accused of compiling and distributing a list of purported illegal immigrants is heading into its fourth month without a conclusion. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said after launching the investigation in July that it would be swift and a decision on charges would come soon, but that hasn\'t been the case.

Federal immigration police cannot say for certain that a program to extend federal authority to arrest and detain illegal aliens to state and local law enforcement agencies is meeting their priorities because they do not collect and analyze enough data to make that determination.