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• Family of former BYU player finds faith, friendship following wasp attack

  23-07-2017 22:58
  SOUTH JORDAN — Wasps nearly claimed the life of a Utah man during a family vacation on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, last week.Jake Shoff, of South Jordan, survived thanks to the intervention of what his wife described as “angels” — two passing strangers who put their own lives at risk to keep his head above water.Shoff and his wife, Emily, had taken their sons Zach, 14, Brady, 10 and Grant, 3, out on a pair of kayaks on the Hanalei River on Tuesday. They started their day
  
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• U. engineers developing new hologram technology

  23-07-2017 22:52
  SALT LAKE CITY — The future of 3-D technology is getting closer.A team of University of Utah electrical and computer engineers has developed a way to create full-color, 2-D and 3-D holograms that can eventually be used in a wide range of applications, including identification badges, credit cards and currency.Led by electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon, researchers developed holograms that are more realistic, brighter and could be viewed at wider angles than
  
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• 'A double problem': Needle exchanges fight disease, but stray syringes raise alarm

  23-07-2017 22:47
  SALT LAKE CITY — The success of Utah's needle exchanges comes at a price.The programs approved by the Legislature last year help prevent hepatitis C and HIV for users of heroin and prescription opioids. But the dirty needles are turning up in public places as the Utah programs distribute 16,000 free, clean syringes each week, mostly in the Rio Grande area, health officials say."It creates a double problem," said Heather Bush, syringe exchange coordinator for the Utah Department of Health,
  
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• UVU culinary freshman hungry to be the best — named national Student Chef of the Year

  23-07-2017 22:35
  OREM — With seconds left on the clock, Madeline Black flung a few final seasonings onto her plate of truffle-scented duck roulade, her fingers flying."Time! Call it," a timekeeper shouted in the background. Black finished mopping up the four plates in front of her and stepped back from the counter."It was not my best run through," the 19-year-old Provo native admitted afterward. "I was actually pretty bummed when I finished because a couple of the pieces weren’t quite perfect."But de
  
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• Huntsman Cancer Institute wellness instructor now leans on pupils as she fights the disease herself

  23-07-2017 22:35
  SALT LAKE CITY — Toni Lock was speaking near the end of teaching her qi gong class Monday when she broke into tears.The instructor, or sifu, as her position is referred to in the discipline, soon afterward gathered her students into a large group hug. Surrounded by the tranquil scenery of the nearly empty Red Butte Garden amphitheater, she and a dozen or so other women lingered for several quiet moments as they clasped their arms over each other's shoulders.Despite the practice's associati
  
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• Utahns used to go crazy over the Days of '47 queen

  23-07-2017 17:21
  It's quite an elaborate gown she's wearing.
  The white velvet billows out to impossibly wide proportions, embroidered on the front with pioneer wagons, horses and olive branches and, for some reason, with ducks on the sleeves. There's a 30-foot golden... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>
  
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• Utah's two big parades exclude groups with LGBTQ ties, but only one is taking heat

  23-07-2017 15:00
  The ouster of the LGBTQ resource center Encircle from America's Freedom Festival Fourth of July parade in Provo has produced a wave of criticism against organizers, whose nonprofit receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money.
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• Donald Trump's approval rating falls below 50 percent in Utah, where voters are split on the Russia investigation

  23-07-2017 13:59
  President Donald Trump's approval rating has once again dipped below 50 percent in Utah as the investigation into possible ties between his campaign and Russia continues to hound his first six months in office.
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• Kirby: Of Mormon pioneers, polygamy and old (plural) wives' tales

  23-07-2017 13:00
  Monday is the big celebration of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley 170 years ago. If you're a descendant, you may take a moment to ponder the heroic deeds of your venerable ancestors.
  By all accounts, the early Mormon pionee...
  
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• Wildfire threatens houses, burns 703 acres in Box Elder County

  23-07-2017 05:11
  A wildfire threatened houses and burned 703 acres of brush and grass near Grouse Creek in Box Elder County on Saturday.
  Early estimates logged the fire at 1,800 acres, but that number was updated after crews took GPS measurements on Saturday evening....
  
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• Skill, speed, determination - these tiny racers are just as fierce as anyone else competing for a world cup

  23-07-2017 05:11
  When he's suited up for a bike race, Waku Kunitate looks as serious as they come.
  Tight red pants with yellow, molded plastic knee pads, black gloves, a white shirt that bears the flag from his home country of Japan and a steely, determined glare.
  So...
  
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• Photos: Little racers compete for balance bike world championship

  23-07-2017 04:15
  Tetsuya Kaneko, left, holds his son, Raito, while both of them cry happy tears after winning the 3-year-old division of the Strider Cup World Championship balance bike races at the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday. Competitors from across the U.S. and 14 other countries, including Aruba, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Tahiti, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, raced their little bikes along a 750-foot obstacle-ridden course.See the world th
  
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• Democratic 3rd Congressional District candidate supports taxpayer-funded health care for all

  23-07-2017 02:33
  SALT LAKE CITY — Kathie Allen, the Democratic candidate in the special 3rd Congressional District race, said she supports what most people would call a single-payer government health care system."I don't like that term," the 64-year-old doctor recently told the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards. "I would describe it as a taxpayer-funded system for everyone. But how you decide to implement it needs to be customized for our country."It's a proposal she believes has support in the distric
  
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• Wildfire threatens houses, burns 1,800 acres in Box Elder County

  23-07-2017 02:31
  A wildfire threatened houses and burned 1,800 acres of brush and grass near Grouse Creek in Box Elder County on Saturday afternoon.
  The blaze, which was first reported at 1 p.m. also threatened ranches and farm buildings, according to spokesman Jason...
  
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• United by fundamentalist Mormon beliefs, one polygamous group helps another by bringing truckloads of food

  23-07-2017 02:31
  Colorado City, Ariz. :
  It was 8:35 a.m. on a Saturday when Gabriel Owen arrived here with three tons of potatoes and a ton of wheat.He steered the old Chevy pickup and the flatbed trailer it towed into the parking lot of Meadowayne Dairy - the l...
  
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• Tiny competitors race bikes through Gallivan Place in pursuit of championship title

  23-07-2017 02:31
  When he's suited up for a bike race, Waku Kunitate looks as serious as they come.
  Tight red pants with yellow, molded plastic knee pads, black gloves, a white shirt that bears the flag from his home country of Japan and a steely, determined glare.
  So...
  
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• Fire in Box Elder County burns 900 acres, threatens 6 structures

  23-07-2017 01:05
  ETNA, Box Elder County — Six structures were saved from a fire in Etna that burned over 900 acres on Saturday afternoon.The fire, which started around 1 p.m. near Grouse Creek Road in northwest Utah, presented a challenge for firefighters as flames spread uphill and eventually split into two directions. High winds continued to shift the direction of the fire, making it difficult for the crew of 25 firefighters to get ahead of the flame and contain it, according to Mitch Zundel, economic de
  
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• Fire in Box Elder County burns 700 acres

  23-07-2017 01:05
  ETNA, Box Elder County — Six structures were saved from a fire in Etna that burned around 700 acres Saturday.The fire, which started around 1 p.m. near Grouse Creek Road in northwest Utah, presented a challenge for firefighters as flames spread uphill and eventually split into two directions. High winds continued to shift the direction of the fire, making it difficult for the crew of 25 firefighters to get ahead of the flames and contain it, according to Mitch Zundel, economic development
  
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• Fire in Box Elder County burns 1,800 acres

  23-07-2017 01:05
  ETNA, Box Elder County — Six structures were saved from a fire in Etna that burned about 1,800 acres Saturday afternoon.The fire, which started around 1 p.m. near Grouse Creek Road in northwest Utah, presented a challenge for firefighters as flames spread uphill and eventually split into two directions. High winds continued to shift the direction of the fire, making it difficult for the crew of 25 firefighters to get ahead of the flames and contain it, according to Mitch Zundel, economic d
  
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