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• Utah's ER Nurse of the Year's 38 years of service an anomaly

  26-08-2017 23:42
  PROVO — They say home is where the heart is. For Jean Lundquist, her heart lies in the emergency room."I was in the hospital when I was probably 7 or 8 years old," said Lundquist, an ER nurse at Utah Valley Hospital. "I just thought it was cool. I always wanted to do something like that. I always wanted a stethoscope, I always wanted medical stuff."Now, when people ask how long she's been in this line of work, it takes a lot of thought and staring at the ceiling while trying to do math in
  
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• Elected officials want Rocky Mountain Power to invest more in rural Utah

  26-08-2017 23:40
  SALT LAKE CITY — Some rural state and county leaders are asking Utah's largest electric utility to put more of its money in areas with its biggest customer base.But Rocky Mountain Power officials say they're already doing just that.A group of civic leaders this week sent a letter to Gov. Gary Herbert, calling on him to implore Rocky Mountain Power to redirect money they believe the utility is seeking to invest in Wyoming and Idaho toward projects in rural Utah. Those projects, they contend
  
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• Utah plan 'not mindless compliance' to federal education act, state superintendent says

  26-08-2017 23:32
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's plan for the Every Student Succeeds Act is "not mindless compliance" to federal mandates, according to the state superintendent of public instruction.On Sept. 8, the Utah State Board of Education is expected to act on the plan, which is essentially an application for $123 million in federal funds for programs that assist children experiencing homelessness, live in poverty or whose parents are migrant farmworkers, among other initiatives. The federal funding also sup
  
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• Utahns honored for organ, eye, tissue donation

  26-08-2017 21:28
  SALT LAKE CITY — Zendaya Sookey Peterson was a happy and healthy baby. She was always smiling and very obviously loved her big sister, Eliza.Her mother also saw something unique in Zendaya, even from an early age, believing she might have had a different purpose in life.That purpose was realized on July 22, 2016, when 4-month-old Zendaya could not be awaked from her late-afternoon nap."Just before she passed, she had touched the side of all our faces and made eye contact," said Andrea Warn
  
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• Monticello soldier killed in Afghanistan to be laid to rest today

  26-08-2017 19:21
  MONTICELLO — A dedicated soldier serving with Special Forces in Afghanistan will be laid to rest today.Flags, ribbons and handmade signs lined the streets of Monticello in anticipation of funeral services Saturday for Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Aaron Butler, 27.Butler, who had been deployed since April, died clearing a booby-trapped building Aug. 16 in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province. Eleven soldiers who were with him were injured.Butler's body was returned to his hometown of Monticel
  
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• 'Indescribably brave': Monticello soldier's family remembers the love, patriotism that defined his life

  26-08-2017 19:20
  MONTICELLO — Looking back, it's clear to Aaron Butler's tight-knit family that the qualities that made the southern Utah native such a remarkable soldier defined his nearly 28 years of life.As a child he had boundless energy and a knack for mischief to match.On the wrestling team he was known for his work ethic and sportsmanship as much as for his four state titles.And to those he loved, he was generous, intelligent, patriotic and protective.Butler, a staff sergeant in the Army National Gu
  
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• 1 dead in West Valley motorcycle accident

  26-08-2017 19:10
  WEST VALLEY CITY — A 26-year-old man was killed late Friday when his motorcycle collided with another vehicle on 3500 South.Oswaldo Perez Lopez was headed west on 3500 South and about to cross the intersection at 4800 West at about 11 p.m. when the passenger car turning north on 4800 West hit him.Lopez was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident and was pronounced dead at the scene, West Valley police Lt. Jeff Conger said. "It appeared he was also traveling at a high rate of speed
  
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• Drug known in clubs as 'Special K' works to treat depression at Utah clinic

  26-08-2017 18:32
  
  A drug with hallucinogenic properties known on the club scene as “Special K” has found success fighting chronic depression at an increasing number of clinical settings across the country, including in Springville.
  
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• Severely burned fireman credited with saving fellow responder's life

  26-08-2017 17:55
  
  An Idaho firefighter who was severely burned when his fire truck became engulfed by flames earlier this week suffered those injuries while saving the life of another fireman.
  
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• 1 dead in West Valley motorcycle crash

  26-08-2017 16:49
  
  One man is dead after a motorcycle crash late Friday night on 3500 South in West Valley City, according to police.
  
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• Harvey lashes Texas coast with high wind, torrential rain

  26-08-2017 07:10
  
  Hurricane Harvey smashed into Texas late Friday, lashing a wide swath of the Gulf Coast with strong winds and torrential rain from the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade.
  
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• Bishop meets divided house at Layton town hall

  26-08-2017 06:44
  LAYTON — U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop decried the 1.3 million acres swept into Bears Ears National Monument, defended Republicans' unsuccessful push to repeal the Affordable Care Act and denounced white supremacy Friday in front of a divided house 25 miles north of Salt Lake City.The evening town hall — the Utah Republican's third of the week — was punctuated with applause and whistles when Bishop said Utah could better manage its public lands and when a constituent asked what he'd do
  
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• Residents voice concerns, ask questions about Operation Rio Grande

  26-08-2017 06:15
  
  About 50 Salt Lake City residents came to the Poplar Grove Neighborhood Alliance meeting Friday night to voice their concerns and ask questions about Operation Rio Grande
  
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• 'Be our eyes and ears:' Operation Rio Grande leaders urge neighborhoods to report 'ripple effect'

  26-08-2017 05:39
  SALT LAKE CITY — Fairpark resident Tiffany Sandberg said every morning when she lets her dog outside, "she has a fit" because someone is camping next to her backyard shed.Sandberg said just yesterday her neighbor had to "literally evict a drug dealer out of his boat" sitting outside his house.And recently, Sandberg said she watched a man pick up a prostitute off the street in her neighborhood.Since the beginning of Operation Rio Grande about two weeks ago, Sandberg (who is a Salt Lake Scho
  
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• I-80 eastbound closing this weekend near Foothill Drive

  26-08-2017 05:38
  
  If you're planning to drive I-80 on Salt Lake's east side this weekend, be aware of a freeway closure near Foothill Drive.
  
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• Pleasant Grove Fire Department sees success with donated CPR machine

  26-08-2017 05:22
  
  An automatic CPR machine is being credited with saving two lives after it was donated to the Pleasant Grove Fire Department earlier this year.
  
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• Getaway driver in Provo gang killing sentenced to jail

  26-08-2017 04:35
  PROVO — The getaway driver in a gang-related robbery that left one man dead was sentenced Wednesday to jail.Jerry Otis Hawley, 34, of Eagle Mountain, was ordered to serve one year in jail for attempted negligent homicide, reduced from a third-degree felony to a class A misdemeanor. He was given credit for time he has already served, about 160 days according to his attorney, James Wright.Two sentences of one-to-15 years in prison, for second-degree felonies of burglary and robbery, were sus
  
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• Stricter law adds bite to Salt Lake prostitution sting; 39 arrested

  26-08-2017 04:12
  
  If you don't want to have to explain to your spouse of significant other why you need a ride home from jail, then don't attempt to patronize a prostitute. That's the message Salt Lake police want to get across to all potential "johns."
  
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• Menacing Harvey on verge of reaching Texas coast

  26-08-2017 03:51
  
  Hurricane Harvey was on the verge of reaching Texas on Friday, bringing fierce winds and torrential rain to a wide swath of the state's Gulf Coast and prompting tens of thousands of residents fleeing inland in hopes of escaping its wrath.
  
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• What role do statues play in remembering history?

  26-08-2017 03:07
  
  With the recent removals of Confederate statues in the South and other monuments associated with some of America's darker history, are local and state governments erasing history?
  
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• Stricter law adds bite to Salt Lake prostitution sting

  26-08-2017 02:13
  SALT LAKE CITY — If you don't want to have to explain to your spouse or significant other why you need a ride home from the Salt Lake County Jail, then don't attempt to patronize a prostitute.That's the message Salt Lake police want to get across to all potential "johns."The penalty for soliciting a prostitute increased earlier this year from a class B misdemeanor to a class A misdemeanor. And with the restrictions on the jail recently lifted, Salt Lake police detective Greg Wilking said e
  
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• Increasingly menacing Hurricane Harvey aims at Texas coast

  26-08-2017 02:02
  
  With time running out, tens of thousands of people fled Friday from the path of an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Harvey as it took aim at a wide swath of the Texas Gulf Coast that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.
  
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• Man who posed as LDS general authority gets 5 years of probation

  26-08-2017 01:38
  SALT LAKE CITY — A former Utah County commissioner who participated in a scheme to defraud investors of hundreds of thousands of dollars by, in part, posing as an LDS general authority, avoided jail time Friday by coming up with a plan to partially repay his victims."I'm so sorry," a tearful Gary Anderson told the judge before being sentenced. "I honesty did not mean to hurt anybody."Anderson, 70, pleaded guilty in May to communications fraud, a second-degree felony. In exchange for his pl
  
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• U. team creates inexpensive test to screen for liver cancer

  26-08-2017 01:32
  
  In 2015, liver cancer killed nearly 790,000 people worldwide. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Utah is hoping to drastically reduce that number, especially in developing nations.
  
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• Phtotos: Utah Museum of Fine Arts reopens to the public

  26-08-2017 01:21
  See the world through the eyes of award-winning photojournalists. Click through the gallery above to view the unique images our visual storytellers captured today. Don't forget to follow the official Deseret News Instagram account for more photographs and videos from the staff.
  
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• Photos: Utah Museum of Fine Arts reopens to the public

  26-08-2017 01:20
  See the world through the eyes of award-winning photojournalists. Click through the gallery above to view the unique images our visual storytellers captured today. Don't forget to follow the official Deseret News Instagram account for more photographs and videos from the staff.
  
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• FBI treating as homicide body found on tribal land in eastern Utah

  26-08-2017 01:04
  SALT LAKE CITY — The FBI is investigating after a woman's body was found on the road Wednesday inside the boundaries of eastern Utah's Uintah-Ouray Reservation.The agency is treating the death as a homicide, Sandra Barker, spokeswoman for the FBI's Salt Lake City office, said in a prepared statement. The body was found somewhere northwest of Whiterocks, a census-designated area home to 350 people, according to the statement.Barker said the victim's body was found "under suspicious circumst
  
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• UDOT replaces pedestrian bridge with school buses during Bangerter construction

  26-08-2017 01:00
  WEST JORDAN — Hundreds of elementary students can no longer walk or bike to school now that a pedestrian bridge has been removed as part of ongoing construction on Bangerter Highway.So UDOT has opted to bring out the buses.The Utah Department of Transportation established a temporary bus service at Oquirrh Elementary, 7165 S. 3285 West, to provide safe transportation to and from school for kids who live west of the highway."There’s nothing more important than making sure these kids g
  
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• 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejects VidAngel's injunction appeal

  26-08-2017 01:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dealt Provo-based video filtering service VidAngel another legal blow this week in a long-running dispute with a group of Hollywood movie studios, denying the company's appeal of an injunction levied against it in December.The plaintiffs in the action include Disney, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Lucasfilm (a Disney subsidiary).Thursday's 9th Circuit decision follows a U.S. District Court ruling in early August that denied
  
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• FLDS leader wins motion in fraud case

  26-08-2017 00:29
  SALT LAKE CITY — An FLDS leader accused of food stamp fraud scored a victory this week when a judge ruled he won't allow prosecutors to tell a jury that donating the food after it's purchased is prohibited.But in a split ruling, U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart sided against Lyle Jeffs on Wednesday, allowing prosecutors to tell jurors at an upcoming trial that food stamps can only be used to buy food.Prosecutors accuse Jeffs of orchestrating a scheme in which products purchased with food st
  
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