Overworked domestic violence programs seeking $1.4M annually from Utah lawmakers

SALT LAKE CITY — Domestic violence ends in death 40 to 50 times a year in Utah. In the past decade, 42 percent of all murders were committed by an intimate partner.Crisis workers in the state took 40,000 telephone calls for help last year, all of them fielded by 13 community-based programs in the state's 29 counties affiliated with the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition."It's a lot of hard work," said Jenn Oxborrow, coalition executive director.Those thinly stretched programs are asking the