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• Listen to Wooly and take 50 years off your life

  10-09-2017 22:35
  SALT LAKE CITY — I lost 50 years a week ago last Saturday.I was driving in my son Eric’s car, with the radio tuned to a station called 103.5 The Arrow playing classic rock. I wasn’t paying enough attention to remember the song that was playing, but when it ended I heard “Wooly Waldron at the microphone” and, poof, half-a-century disappeared. Just like that.Suddenly I was a teenager again, a Jordan High Beetdigger, paying 32 cents for a gallon of gas, driving my dad&
  
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• Neighbors help Salt Lake family escape burning home

  10-09-2017 22:32
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake family escaped their burning home Sunday thanks to some attentive neighbors.Neighbors called 911 to report smoke coming from a house at 1019 W. Pierpont Ave., and then went next door to alert the occupants who were unaware of the fire, according Salt Lake fire spokeswoman Audra Sorensen.Family members were out of the house when firefighters arrived. None of them were hurt but one firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion at the scene, she said.The fire appear
  
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• 1 woman dead in South Jordan crash

  10-09-2017 21:04
  SOUTH JORDAN — A 60-year-old woman was killed Sunday in a crash.The two-vehicle rollover crash happened near the intersection of 10400 South and Temple Drive (1300 West) just after 11 a.m., according to police.Witnesses at the scene said the woman ran a red light, hit a truck and both vehicles flipped over, according to police.No other people were injured.Police expected the intersection to be closed until 1:30 p.m.More information will be provided as it becomes available.
  
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• Woman killed in South Jordan crash

  10-09-2017 21:00
  SOUTH JORDAN — A 61-year-old woman died Sunday when her SUV collided with a pickup truck at a South Jordan Parkway intersection, causing both vehicles to roll, police said.Marian L. Harrison was partially ejected from her Mercedes SUV and died at the scene, according to South Jordan police.Witnesses told officers the eastbound SUV ran a red light on South Jordan Parkway at 1300 West and hit a northbound Chevrolet pickup about 10:30 a.m., according to police. The impact caused both vehicles
  
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• Uintah Fire is 100 percent contained, officials say

  10-09-2017 20:34
  
  The Uintah Fire has been 100 percent contained, fire officials announced Sunday.
  
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• 1 woman dies in South Jordan rollover crash

  10-09-2017 20:13
  
  Two vehicles were involved in a rollover crash just after 11 a.m. Sunday.
  
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• Reasons to Hope: Suicide is Utah’s most preventable tragedy

  10-09-2017 19:57
  
  For decades, suicide has been one of Utah's top killers. Now, survivors and experts alike explain why there are reasons to hope.
  
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• 2 security guards stabbed after scuffle at SLC bar

  10-09-2017 18:51
  
  An early-morning altercation at a bar downtown sent two security guards to local hospitals with stab wounds.
  
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• 1 person airlifted to hospital after rollover in Farmington Canyon

  10-09-2017 07:08
  
  One person was airlifted to a hospital after their vehicle rolled off the side of a road and down 150 yards Saturday evening.
  
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• Utah agencies, professionals assisting or preparing to help Floridians

  10-09-2017 05:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — As residents, medical professionals and emergency responders waited for Hurricane Irma to make landfall along the west coast of Florida, Ally Okazaki took her position at a local hospital, ready to assist.She and five other volunteers from Orem's Timpanogos Regional Hospital flew into Florida Friday to help local hospitals when the hurricane passes through. As a nurse, she is assigned to help at the Osceola Regional Hospital, which is out of the direct path of the hurrican
  
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• Identical twins celebrate 99th birthdays, share WWII stories

  10-09-2017 05:20
  PROVO — Ralph and Boyd Henderson didn't ever want to be remembered as war heroes."They get very uncomfortable when you talk about awards or anything of that nature," said Lon Henderson, Ralph's son. When he asks his dad about his World War II service, Ralph Henderson says he just went and did his job and came home.The identical twin brothers celebrated their 99th birthdays on Wednesday. Friends and family members traveled from far and wide to throw a birthday party for the two of them in P
  
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• Rescuers share incredible video and pictures from Hurricane Harvey

  10-09-2017 03:54
  
  Eight members of the Utah Army National Guard share the incredible stories from their rescue mission to the communities devastated by Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• Man shoots pit bull who was attacking his dog, Logan police say

  10-09-2017 03:46
  LOGAN— Police are investigating an incident where a man at a park in Logan shot a pit bull that he said was attacking his dog.Logan police responded to a call at Ray Hugie Hydro Park, U.S. 89 and Canyon Road, shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday of a man with a concealed weapons permit who had shot one of a pair of pit bulls.The gunman had been playing in the park with his own dog, which was off-leash, when the owner of the two pit bulls walked by, said Logan Police Capt. Tyson Budge.It was uncle
  
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• Utah GOP takes no action on SB54 lawsuit; Count My Vote could re-launch as soon as this week

  10-09-2017 03:17
  
  A decision on re-launching the controversial Count My Vote initiative could be made this week, after the Utah GOP's governing State Central Committee adjourned Saturday before debating dropping a related lawsuit.
  
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• Utah GOP takes no action on SB54 lawsuit

  10-09-2017 02:45
  NORTH SALT LAKE — A decision on re-launching the controversial Count My Vote initiative could be made this week, after the Utah GOP's governing State Central Committee adjourned Saturday before debating dropping a related lawsuit.The committee voted after about five hours to end its meeting rather than deal with a resolution halting the legal fight against a 2014 legislative compromise with Count My Vote that lets candidates gather voter signatures for the primary ballot."There is a time t
  
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• Christian humanitarian organization hopes to touch hearts with Christmas gifts for children

  10-09-2017 02:45
  MURRAY — Irina Creek was one of more than 100 children in a Russian orphanage when she remembers being shuffled into a large room and given a shoebox filled with gifts.Little did she know how that box would change her life."It was the first time any of us received anything like this," she said. Creek was 10 years old at the time, but she remembers it "like it was yesterday."Along with the gifts, provided by Operation Christmas Child, the children were introduced to Christianity and told th
  
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• Police ID 2 killed in Millcreek head-on collision

  10-09-2017 01:37
  
  Francisco Perez-Olvera, 42, and Summer Dudley, 27, died after a two-car head-on crash near 4200 South and 700 East about 6:30 a.m. Both were the drivers of the cars involved, according to Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke.
  
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• Inside the newsroom: Bringing suicide out of the darkness is important, yet difficult

  10-09-2017 00:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — Society is struggling to battle suicide and the search for solutions includes responsible media coverage. That requires an ethical approach to coverage that minimizes harm for families and doesn't provide fuel for contagion — the term given to copycat attempts at suicide that can follow and create a cluster of suicides in a community.Every suicide is a tremendous personal tragedy. It's affecting our youth, who are more prone to contagion, and middle-aged men at an al
  
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• Skydiving family has more than quarter-century of experience

  10-09-2017 00:37
  TOOELE (AP) — Tell anyone you're about to go skydiving and the general reaction is somewhere along the lines of "are you crazy?" or "you must have a death wish" or "wow, an adrenaline junkie!"Ask an experienced skydiver those questions, and they'll likely get a bit annoyed with that reductive stereotype."Honestly, when someone asks me if I'm an adrenaline junkie, it's almost kind of offensive," said Mackenzie Winkelstein, an experienced skydiver in American Fork and a member of a family fu
  
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