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• Utahraptor Project aims to draw real picture of ancient creature

  04-09-2017 23:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — Only a handful of bones prove the Utahraptor ever existed.In 1991, paleontologists identified the new dinosaur using fragments of a skull, a few vertebrae, a tibia, and toe and hand claws. Although more bones have been found, the Utahraptor skeleton is mostly a paleontologist's best guess of what one of the largest dromaeosaurs may have looked like.But paleontologists found more Utahraptor bones that could help identify the missing pieces of the skeleton — if they ev
  
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• Police seeking witnesses to officer shooting teenage boy

  04-09-2017 22:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — Police are asking for help from witnesses to an officer-involved shooting early Sunday of a teenage boy who police say had a gun following a vehicle and foot pursuit.Salt Lake Police Sgt. Brandon Shearer said investigators have body camera footage from the Cottonwood Heights police officers who began the pursuit about 3:10 a.m. Sunday but are interested in a video provided to a local TV station.Shearer urged witnesses and anyone else with information about the shooting to
  
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• Photos: Park City celebrates heritage with parade, Running of the Balls

  04-09-2017 22:05
  Spectators lined the route for the Running of the Balls during Park City Miners' Day in Park City on Monday, Sept. 4, 2017.
  Balls were purchased with the proceeds going to local nonprofit organizations, and prizes were awarded to the owners of the first 25 balls down Main Street.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 Instagr
  
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• U. officials announce policy change, offer apology to nurse

  04-09-2017 20:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — Univeristy of Utah officials announced Monday they have enacted a new policy concerning hospital interactions with law enforcement officers and also apologized to nurse Alex Wubbels for her now-viral July 26 arrest in the emergency room at University Hospital."This will not happen again," Gordon Crabtree, interim CEO of University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, told reporters at a news conference just days after body camera footage was released showing Wubbels being dragge
  
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• Michelle Obama to speak at Salt Lake tech conference

  04-09-2017 20:47
  
  Former first lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to speak at an upcoming user conference in Salt Lake City hosted by Farmington-based online education company Pluralsight.
  
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• New Hampshire man dies while rappelling near Zion

  04-09-2017 20:05
  MT. CARMEL, Kane County — A New Hampshire man died Sunday while rappelling in Eaglestead Hollow near Zion National Park.The 38-year-old man, whose name was not released, was hiking with four siblings down Eaglestead Hollow, which includes a series of rappels, and then planned on going through the Narrows in Zion. He was on the first rappel, which is about 300 feet in length, just before 11 a.m. when the incident occurred."For some unknown reason, the individual fell the last 80 feet to the
  
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• University of Utah Hospital changes protocol with law enforcement after nurse arrest

  04-09-2017 19:42
  
  University of Utah Hospital officials announced changes to its protocol with law enforcement on Monday after one of the hospital's nurses was arrested for refusing to allow an officer to draw blood without a warrant in July.
  
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• New Hampshire man dies after falling 80 feet while rappelling in Kane County

  04-09-2017 15:41
  
  A 38-year-old New Hampshire man died after falling approximately 80 feet while rappelling in a canyon east of Zion National Park Sunday morning, authorities said.
  
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• Canyon residents question Salt Lake City's 'protectionist' watershed ordinance

  04-09-2017 07:00
  BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON — A muddy construction site exists near the top the canyon, where heavy equipment is putting in an access road to develop a spring for drinking water.The water will service 22 connections in the canyon's Pine Tree subdivision, a development that failed to meet state requirements for its drinking water system. The current system only functions for half the year and lacks redundancy, and through some sort of oversight, the project did not have the necessary permit from
  
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• 135 family members attend Bees game to honor WWII veteran

  04-09-2017 06:54
  
  Family members fill the seats at Smith's Ballpark to celebrate their World War II veteran family member.
  
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• World's best lobster roll? It's in Utah

  04-09-2017 06:17
  PARK CITY — Earlier this summer, when the Park City husband-wife team of Ben and Lorin Smaha waltzed into Maine for the Down East Magazine Lobster Roll Cook-off and waltzed back to landlocked Utah with the grand prize of “World’s Best Lobster Roll,” a lot of New Englanders were understandably left with mouths agape.Where did they say they were from?Let’s imagine a realistic comparable: Massachusetts winning Best Snow? New Hampshire winning Best Funeral Potatoes?But
  
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• How a Utah couple created the world's best lobster roll

  04-09-2017 06:10
  PARK CITY — Earlier this summer, when the Park City husband-wife team of Ben and Lorin Smaha waltzed into Maine for the Down East Magazine Lobster Roll Cook-off and waltzed back to landlocked Utah with the grand prize of “World’s Best Lobster Roll,” a lot of New Englanders were understandably left with mouths agape.Where did they say they were from?Let’s imagine a realistic comparable: Massachusetts winning Best Snow? New Hampshire winning Best Funeral Potatoes?But
  
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• About Utah: How a Utah couple created the world's best lobster roll

  04-09-2017 06:10
  PARK CITY — Earlier this summer, when the Park City husband-wife team of Ben and Lorin Smaha waltzed into Maine for the Down East Magazine Lobster Roll Cook-off and waltzed back to landlocked Utah with the grand prize of “World’s Best Lobster Roll,” a lot of New Englanders were understandably left with mouths agape.Where did they say they were from?Let’s imagine a realistic comparable: Massachusetts winning Best Snow? New Hampshire winning Best Funeral Potatoes?But
  
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• Teen hospitalized after nearly drowning at Pineview Reservoir

  04-09-2017 05:50
  
  A 15-year-old girl was hospitalized after nearly drowning at Pineview Reservoir Sunday evening.
  
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• Health department: New naloxone kit program has saved 46 lives in 2017

  04-09-2017 05:12
  SALT LAKE CITY — A naloxone pilot program authorized by the state Legislature has helped save 46 lives since the start of 2017, the Utah Department of Health reports.The program, passed by state legislators in 2016, freed up about $236,000 for the Department of Health to distribute to a variety of agencies around the state for the purposes of purchasing kits of naloxone, a drug that can be applied nasally and quickly reverse the effects of a severe opioid overdose."We're grateful for the U
  
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• Heat, poor air quality expected to linger this week

  04-09-2017 04:41
  SALT LAKE CITY — Summer is hanging on to Utah with a firm grip, keeping temperatures in the 90s throughout the northern half of the state and maintaining triple-digit heat in the Dixie region.The heat is expected to last through the work week and is helping fuel unhealthy air quality conditions, especially for sensitive populations.While northern Utah can't compare to the intense heat wave stifling California, the temperatures are well above normal — by 10 degrees — at a time w
  
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• U. researchers developing rapid, cheap liver cancer test

  04-09-2017 03:23
  SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah researchers say they are designing a diagnostic method that will be able to accurately identify signs of liver cancer within minutes, saving critical time for patients of the stealthy disease.The new type of test could forever change how people screen for the disease, said Marc Porter, a U. chemical engineering and chemistry professor who is leading the research along with Dr. Courtney Scaife, a surgeon who both practices and teaches surgery for the univ
  
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• Man, woman flown to hospital after ATV crash

  04-09-2017 02:07
  
  A man and a woman were hospitalized following an ATV crash Sunday afternoon, officials confirmed.
  
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