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The Associated Press YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK A man missing for two nights in Yosemite National Park has been found alive but suffering from multiple injuries, park rangers said Monday. Visitors on the Lower Yosemite Fall trail spot- ted Michael Dahl, 20, in a boulder field about a quar- ter-mile from the popular loop, park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said. Dahl, a student at Uni- versity of California, Santa Barbara, was taken by am- bulance to a local hospital for treatment, Cobb said. Park visitors recognized Dahl from his picture on a missing-persons flier, Cobb said. Dahl arrived at the park Saturday morning with three friends, and they set out for a short day hike to Lower Yosemite Fall on a paved trail. The group had been climbing on the rocks below the Lower Fall when they noticed Dahl was miss- ing, park rangers said. Dahl's friends reported him missing after they searched for about two hours, officials said. The group had not planned for being in the wilderness overnight, Cobb said. The National Park Ser- vice website describes the trail as an easy, 1-mile walk to part of North America's tallest waterfall but warns visitors to stay on the pave- ment because rocks are slip- pery even when dry. MULTIPLE INJURIES Hikermissing2daysin Yosemite park found alive By Larry O'dell The Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. A five-month police inves- tigation into an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, described in graphic detail in a Rolling Stone article, produced no evidence of the attack and was stymied by the accus- er's unwillingness to coop- erate, authorities said Mon- day. The article titled "A rape on campus" traced the story from a student identified only as "Jackie," who said she was raped at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on Sep- tember, 28, 2012. It also de- scribed a hidden culture of sexual violence fueled by binge drinking at the col- lege. Police said they found no evidence of that either. There were numerous discrepancies between the article and what they found, said Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo, who was careful not to charac- terize Jackie's account as a false allegation. The case is suspended, not closed, and the fact that investigators could not find evidence years later "doesn't mean that something terri- ble didn't happen to Jackie," Longo said. He appealed for anyone with information about the case or any sexual assault to come forward, and he even said Jackie may one day be in a place where she would be comfortable explaining what happened. "There's a difference be- tween a false allegation and something that hap- pened that may have been different than what was described in that article," Longo said. Asked if Jackie would be charged with making a false report, he said: "Abso- lutely not." Accurate or not, the ar- ticle heightened scrutiny of sexual assaults on col- lege campuses. Even be- fore it was published, the U.S. Education Depart- ment revealed a list of 55 colleges, including U.Va., under investigation for the way they handled sexual as- sault allegations. President Barak Obama's administra- tion launched a campaign to end campus sex assaults. Longo said Jackie first described a sexual assault when she met with a dean in May 2013 about an aca- demic issue, but "the sex- ual act was not consistent with what was described" in the Rolling Stone article. The dean brought in police, but Jackie didn't want them to investigate and the case was dropped. After the article was printed in November, she met with police, this time with an attorney, and again refused to talk. Discrepan- cies in the article were soon found by news organiza- tions. Rolling Stone printed an apology and asked the dean of the Columbia Uni- versity Graduate School of Journalism to conduct a review of the article by Sa- brina Rubin Erdely and its editorial process. The mag- azine is expected to publish those findings in a couple of weeks. Rolling Stone didn't im- mediately comment af- ter the police investigation news conference. Investigators spoke to about 70 people, including friends of the accuser and fraternity members, and spent hundreds of hours on the investigation, Longo said. None provided any ev- idence supporting the claim of a gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi house. In the article, Jackie said that during her first semes- ter on campus, she had gone on a date with a classmate named "Drew" who later that night lured her into a secluded room at a frater- nity house. Inside the room, she said, she was raped by a group of seven frater- nity brothers and thrown through a glass table while her date and one other man watched. The magazine described a distraught Jackie later telling three friends about the assault, and two of them discouraging her from re- porting it to authorities be- cause she could become a social outcast. In interviews with The Associated Press, the friends said the oppo- site was true — that they had insisted Jackie contact police, but she refused. FRATERNITY PROBE Unable to confirm rape at UVa, police suspend investigation MELODYROBBINS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo speaks during a news conference on Monday in Charlottesville, Va., on the alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY Utah be- came the only state to al- low firing squads for exe- cutions Monday when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law approving the controver- sial method's use when no lethal-injection drugs are available. Herbert has said he finds the firing squad "a little bit gruesome," but Utah is a capital punishment state and needs a backup execu- tion method in case a short- age of the drugs persists. "We regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated mur- der to merit the death pen- alty, and we prefer to use our primary method of le- thal injection when such a sentence is issued," Herbert spokesman Marty Carpen- ter said. "However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death war- rant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch." The measure's approval is the latest illustration of some states' frustration over bungled executions and difficulty obtaining the drugs. Utah is one of several states seeking new forms of capital punishment after a botched Oklahoma lethal injection last year. States have struggled to keep up their drug inven- tories as European manu- facturers opposed to cap- ital punishment refuse to sell the components of le- thal injections to U.S. pris- ons.. The bill's sponsor, Re- publican Rep. 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