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• Traffic alert: Crash closes five northbound lanes on I-15 at 15800 South

  30-07-2017 23:39
  A crash on Sunday afternoon at Interstate 15 at 15800 South has closed five northboundlanes of traffic, according to the Utah Department of Transportation.
  The estimated clearance time of the crash - at milepost 286, near Point of the Mountain in S...
  
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• About Utah: 'They've been able to see something they haven't seen before'

  30-07-2017 22:20
  OREMThree years ago, when they were 12 years old and just out of elementary school, three Navajo kids, Jadan Lacy, Shakira Cervantes and Quiana Dishface, had a decision to make:Should they stay home on the reservation for the summer or should they spend it in town in Blanding taking math classes?They chose summer school, believe it or not.Smart kids.This Friday,in ceremonies at the Utah State University campus in Blanding, Jadan, Shakira and Quiana will be part of a group of 23 Native American t
  
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• Police identify 3 accused of stabbing food court worker

  30-07-2017 20:26
  WEST VALLEY CITY — Police have identified three men arrested and accused of stabbing a man who was handing out food samples at the Valley Fair Mall Saturday.Shawn Mckai Begay, 19; Stratford Bryan Jones, 18; and Kyler Lynn Cozad, 20; were booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of causing a riot and aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury.The three men were walking inside the mall, 3601 S. 2700 West, about 4:50 p.m. Saturday when they encountered the food court
  
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• Following Trump's order, federal prosecution is up for gun crimes in Utah, nationwide

  30-07-2017 19:38
  Following President Trump's February Executive Order to federal prosecutors, asking them to focus on reducing crime, prosecutors in Utah are filing more charges against people for unlawful possession of a firearm than they have in years past.
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• 2 people steal UHP trooper's car after crash

  30-07-2017 18:44
  
  Two people jumped into a Utah Highway Patrol trooper’s car and drove off after the trooper responded to a crash on I-80 on Sunday morning.
  
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• Police find missing West Bountiful man's car

  30-07-2017 18:20
  
  Authorities have found the car of a man who went missing from West Bountiful last week, but the man is still missing.
  
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• Eagle Mountain girl hit by car dies from injuries

  30-07-2017 17:40
  EAGLE MOUNTAIN — A 3-year-old Eagle Mountain girl who was hit by a car while crossing the street on Friday died Saturday night, police say.Charlie C. Nielson was flown by medical helicopter to Primary Children's Hospital on Friday. She had been in critical condition on life support when the family made the decision Saturday to remove the support and the child died shortly before 7 p.m., according to the Utah County Sheriff's Office.Charlie was crossing Wycliff Way from a park about 6:30 p.
  
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• How did Salt Lake City's homeless district get so bad and why can't we fix it?

  30-07-2017 17:31
  The area around Pioneer Park and Rio Grande Street's homeless shelter has long been a place to score illegal drugs. Crack cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol were the substances of choice until about 2013 or '14. Then heroin swept in and amped up ev...
  
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• Support grows for ballot item angling for more school money

  30-07-2017 17:18
  A new poll shows the Our Schools Now ballot initiative is maintaining - and possibly expanding - its base of support as organizers prepare to gather signatures to qualify for the November 2018 ballot.A majority of registered Utah voters - 57 percen...
  
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• Tanner Ainge: I will never back away from the critical priorities

  30-07-2017 17:00
  Throughout my life, I have always been a person of action. I graduated from high school and BYU early. I completed my law degree from Northwestern in half of the time it traditionally takes. I fell in love with my wife Heidi when I was 17 and married her as soon as I returned from a two-year mission in West Africa. She is my best friend in the world — and an incredible mother to our five children.For the last 10 years in the business world I have continued to get things done at an accelera
  
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• John R. Curtis: Congress could sorely use some Utah values

  30-07-2017 17:00
  Twenty years ago, my wife and I moved our family of eight back to Utah to pursue my entrepreneurial dream in Provo. My business partners and I used a host of conservative principles, such as doing more with less, working hard and not incurring debt. Our company, Action Target, took off, growing from a small business into one with hundreds of employees and tens of millions in annual revenue. Today, our shooting ranges are used around the world, and I’m proud that law enforcement officers an
  
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• Chris Herrod: I want to continue the fight in Washington

  30-07-2017 17:00
  One of the greatest honors of my life is when I raised my hand and swore to uphold the Utah Constitution, and the Constitution of the United States, while serving in the Utah Legislature. I took that oath seriously and did everything I could to honor it. I’m running for Congress because I feel the Constitution and our founding principles are under attack. Congress has strayed greatly from the Constitution’s original intent. Article 1 Section 8 specifically limits congressional author
  
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• Transgender patient files malpractice suit against Utah physician who removed their ovaries

  30-07-2017 15:00
  A Utah doctor known for her dedication to providing medical care to transgender people has been sued for malpractice after allegedly removing both of a trans patient's ovaries during surgery when she only had consent to take one.As a result, Dr. Ri...
  
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• In many Utah jails, there's no doctor in the house - and sometimes no nurse

  30-07-2017 15:00
  When physician assistant Logan Clark got to the Duchesne County jail Dec. 1 for his once-a-week visit, the county's nurse on staff told him he had a patient to see.
  The 21-year-old inmate was Madison Jensen, who began suffering shortly after her arre... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>
  
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• In our opinion: Salt Lake City must push forward on the plan to battle crime in Rio Grande

  30-07-2017 14:05
  Precious few details are available about the new concerted state-led effort, enacted in a secret meeting Wednesday, to battle crime in Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande neighborhood.What is known, however, is that on the day politicians were meeting in what House Speaker Greg Hughes has dubbed the “war room,” a man was shot to death in Pioneer Park. That followed an apparent murder on Tuesday with the use of a 50-pound paver stone; the death of a pedestrian earlier this month, mowed
  
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• Kirby: Yes, I went to Mormon missionary training and lived to tell about it

  30-07-2017 14:00
  The Mormon church now has a bigger Missionary Training Center in Provo. To hear tell, it's palatial, almost heavenly, in its heavenly sophistication.
  News reports say it offers 200 spacious new classrooms, more than 100 practice teaching rooms and 1...
  
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• Woman carjacked at gunpoint in Layton

  30-07-2017 06:36
  
  Police are searching for a man who stole a woman’s vehicle at gunpoint Saturday evening.
  
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• 1-year-old safely located after taken in stolen vehicle

  30-07-2017 06:06
  
  A 1-year-old boy was safely located Saturday night after the vehicle he was in was carjacked.
  
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• Salt Lake City police find toddler safe after car is stolen with him inside

  30-07-2017 05:59
  A suspected car thief dropped off a 1-year-old boy at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray on Saturday night, minutes after apparently stealing a sedan with the toddler inside.The car with the boy in the backseat was taken from the area of 800 So... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>
  
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• Search continues for missing American Fork man

  30-07-2017 05:48
  SALT LAKE CITY — Hundreds of people — friends, family members, police officers and other volunteers — continued searching the streets Saturday for Paul Heiner Swenson, 30, of American Fork.“We have had search parties for two and a half solid days,” said Shiann Chambers, a friend of Swenson.Chambers said about seven different "random people" told the group Swenson had been spotted near the Road Home shelter in Salt Lake City's Rio Grande neighborhood. "We don't reall
  
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• Utah labor unions, teachers rally for public schools

  30-07-2017 05:38
  Utah's largest unions joined Saturday with political advocates in a march in downtown Salt Lake City in support of public education.
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• One person dead in Daggett County head-on crash

  30-07-2017 05:38
  One person died and another was in critical condition Saturday when an RV slammed head-on into a Nissan on State Route 191 in Daggett County, authorities said.
  The crash occurred before 6 p.m. about 25 miles north of Vernal, and resulted in a tempora...
  
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• Food court employee in critical condition after West Valley City mall stabbing

  30-07-2017 05:38
  A food court employee was fighting for his life after being stabbed multiple times at West Valley City's Valley Fair Mall late Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
  The employee was handing out samples just before 5 p.m. when he was approached by a g...
  
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• 3-year-old girl dies a day after being struck by SUV in Eagle Mountain

  30-07-2017 05:38
  A 3-year-old girl died Saturday evening, a day after being run over by an SUV steps away from her family's Eagle Mountain home.
  Charlie Nielson had been in critical condition at Primary Children's Hospital since Friday night. She died after the famil...
  
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• One killed, three injured in Daggett County crash

  30-07-2017 04:56
  DUTCH JOHN, Daggett County — A motorist died Saturday and three others were hospitalized when a vehicle collided with a motor home about 25 miles north of Vernal.The driver of a Nissan was traveling south on state Route 191 when the vehicle crossed the center median and struck a northbound motor home that was towing another vehicle, said Utah Highway Patrol trooper Evan Kirby.The driver of the Nissan was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers provided no information about the driver, inclu
  
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• 3-year-old girl struck by car in Eagle Mountain dies

  30-07-2017 04:40
  
  A 3-year-old girl who was struck by a car Friday evening has died Saturday, Utah County Sheriff's Office spokesman Spencer Cannon said.
  
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• VidAngel fighting to keep wings on its video filtering service

  30-07-2017 04:30
  PROVO — Kristi Merrill is a big fan of the Provo-based video filtering service VidAngel.Or at least she was until she heard that the way the company was doing its filtering was under legal scrutiny."I just assumed that it was legal, and I was kind of upset that maybe … as a consumer that I was buying into that," Merrill said. "As a company that was making the movies family friendly, it was easy to think they were playing by the rules."To be clear, the legal questions raised about VidA
  
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• 1 killed, 3 injured in car crash near Vernal

  30-07-2017 04:30
  
  A car crash about 25 miles north of Vernal resulted in at least one fatality Saturday afternoon, confirmed Utah Highway Patrol trooper Evan Kirby.
  
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• Man stabbed while handing out samples at mall, police say

  30-07-2017 04:12
  WEST VALLEY CITY — A food court employee at the Valley Fair Mall was critically injured Saturday after police say he was attacked while handing out food samples.The incident occurred about 4:50 p.m. The man, whose name and age were not immediately released, was handing out samples outside the mall, 3601 S. 2700 West, when three people approached him and attacked him, said West Valley Police Sgt. Robert Brinton.The employee was stabbed six to nine times. The stab wounds were to the victim's
  
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• Valley Fair food court employee stabbed while handing out samples

  30-07-2017 04:01
  
  A food court employee is in critical condition after he was stabbed repeatedly while he handed out food samples to mall-goers Saturday evening.
  
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• Goodbye, Outdoor Retailer - you will be missed

  30-07-2017 03:30
  The Outdoor Retailer trade show moved to Salt Lake City in 1996 during much simpler times with much more basic gear.
  The iPhone wouldn't be invented for another 11 years, meaning folks going outdoors didn't feel the need to be connected. In those day...
  
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• Sen. Ted Cruz rallies Utahns to vote for Chris Herrod, 'a real conservative'

  30-07-2017 02:42
  LEHI — In a rally in one of the most Republican counties in the nation, former GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, urged Utahns Saturday to support former state lawmaker Chris Herrod's bid for Congress.Cruz, who won 69 percent of Utah Republicans' votes in last year's presidential primary election, received a roaring welcome at the campaign rally held at the Lehi headquarters of Entrata, a property management software company.Cruz said he took time away from his family this
  
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• To repeal Obamacare, 'You want to elect Chris Herrod,' Sen. Ted Cruz tells Utah rally

  30-07-2017 02:31
  Lehi :A handful of protesters tried to disrupt a speech from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Utah County on Saturday by shouting the Republican down as he talked about the continued need to repeal Obamacare."Shame on you for voting to strip health care fr...
  
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• To repeal Obamacare, 'You want to elect Chris Herrod,' says Ted Cruz at Lehi rally

  30-07-2017 02:31
  Lehi :A handful of protesters tried to disrupt a speech from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Utah County on Saturday by shouting the Republican down as he talked about the continued need to repeal Obamacare."Shame on you for voting to strip health care fro... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>
  
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• Lane closure near Brigham City causes significant delays on I-15

  30-07-2017 01:28
  
  Officials reported significant delays on southbound I-15 in Box Elder County Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Congressional candidate Chris Herrod apologizes for behavior over ticket

  30-07-2017 01:20
  SALT LAKE CITY — A former state lawmaker who is running for a congressional seat has apologized for his behavior after he received a speeding ticket earlier this year.Chris Herrod, who is running to represent Utah's 3rd Congressional District, was stopped on Feb. 9 for driving 79 in a 70 mph zone on I-15, KSTU-TV reported in a story published Saturday.In a recording of the traffic stop, Herrod tells the trooper: "I'm a former legislator that was honored. I'm happy to go on my credibility,"
  
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• Utah congressional candidate Herrod apologizes for behavior over speeding ticket

  30-07-2017 01:16
  A former state lawmaker who is running for a congressional seat has apologized for his behavior after he received a speeding ticket earlier this year, KSTU-TV reported.----Chris Herrod, who is running to represent Utah's 3rd congressional district, was...
  
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• Inside the newsroom: A conversation with former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell

  30-07-2017 00:55
  "This land is your land, this land is my land/ From the California to the New York island/ From the Redwood Forest, to the gulf stream waters/ This land was made for you and me." — Woody Guthrie, 1944
  SALT LAKE CITY — Sally Jewell walked into the Deseret News board room alone, void of any entourage, wearing a black sweater, slacks and a turquoise and coral necklace characteristic of a piece one might find at any of the jewelry outposts that dot the two-lane roads connecting the vista
  
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• Volunteers help paint a better picture for West Valley park

  30-07-2017 00:19
  WEST VALLEY CITY — One small brush stroke at a time.Theresa Eicher didn't really study art composition in school, but for this project, it’s more about what was in her heart than in her hands.“I like it because it’s so fun,” Eicher said.She and her children visited Maple Meadows Park in West Valley City on Saturday. Not to play, but to paint."I want them out and about in the community and involved in things,” Eicher said.She, and about a few dozen others were
  
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• 'When the sky falls': Director among those tasked with caring for Utah's dead after mass calamity

  30-07-2017 00:18
  WEST JORDAN — Jeff Zealley had just come home from one of his four-month-long trips to Louisiana in the aftermath of 2005's infamous Hurricane Katrina when his son asked him if he'd like to play a war-based video game."Normally, I was fine with that. But when he asked me, I said, 'Normally I would, but I can't right now,'" Zealley recalled. "Death is not entertainment to me right now."Even for Zealley, a licensed funeral home director of more than 20 years and a professor of mortuary scien
  
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• Outdoor Retailer organizers bid fond farewell to Salt Lake City

  30-07-2017 00:17
  SALT LAKE CITY — With the final Outdoor Retailer Summer Market in Utah coming to a close this weekend, show organizers are offering high praise to their longtime business partner.After more than 20 years as host city for the outdoor recreation industry's signature expo, Salt Lake City will end its relationship with the biannual trade show.And while events that led to the show's departure may have been contentiously political in nature, those feelings are not as strong as the positive refle
  
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• Sen. Ted Cruz rallies Utahns to vote for Chris Herrod, 'a true conservative'

  30-07-2017 00:12
  LEHI — In a rally in one of the most Republican counties in the nation, former GOP presidential candidate and sitting Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, urged Utahns Saturday to support former state representative Chris Herrod's bid for Congress.Cruz, who won 69 percent of Utah Republicans' votes in last year's presidential primary election, received a roaring welcome at the campaign rally held at the Lehi headquarters of Entrata, a property management software company.Cruz said he took time away fro
  
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