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• Crash on Mountain View Corridor leaves driver in critical condition

  28-10-2017 23:13
  HERRIMAN — A driver involved in a two-vehicle crash near 14000 Mountain View Corridor Saturday morning was in critical condition after being ejected from a pickup truck, according to Unified police.
  The name or gender of the driver was not immediately available.
  There were no injuries to other drivers or passengers, Unified police said.
  According to Unified police, the pickup truck had been reported stolen from South Salt Lake on Friday.
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• Derek B. Miller: Nixing NAFTA to kill the goose laying the golden egg for Utah

  28-10-2017 22:05
  Utah is a trade state. Nearly 1 in 4 jobs is tied to international business. Utah is one of only a handful of states with a trade surplus, and Utah was the only state to grow exports throughout the recession. This is a testament to the competitiveness of the more than 3,500 Utah business (85 percent of which are small businesses) that are exporting.As an export state, there's no doubt that Utah’s economy, Utah consumers and Utah businesses have benefited from NAFTA. In just 10 years Utah e
  
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• Police searching for missing Kearns teenager

  28-10-2017 21:13
  
  Police are searching for a teenager who has been missing from Kearns since Wednesday.
  
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• Op-ed: Sen. Hatch is at the pinnacle of political power

  28-10-2017 20:35
  Are there qualified candidates who can fill Sen. Orrin Hatch’s shoes in the Senate if he doesn’t run for an eighth term? Yes, many. But it would take decades before they could deliver what Hatch and his staff do for Utah every day. Seniority may not be everything, but age does not define Orrin Hatch. Substance does.As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee (and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and chairman of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, as well as s
  
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• Brother of late UHP trooper in process of becoming trooper, too

  28-10-2017 19:01
  
  As Utah Highway Patrol aims to hire 60 new troopers by next spring, no applicant may have more drive than Mike Ellsworth.
  
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• 1 in critical condition after Mountain View Highway crash

  28-10-2017 18:25
  
  One person is in critical condition after a rollover crash near Herriman, police said.
  
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• Op-ed: Cache Valley is booming, and that spells trouble for Logan

  28-10-2017 18:15
  There’s trouble in Logan City. It’s not the kind of trouble “with a capital T that rhymes with P, that stands for Pool,” a line made famous in the town of River City by professor Harold Hill in “The Music Man.”
  Logan City’s Trouble with a capital T rhymes with G, and that stands for Growth.Cache Valley, home of Logan, is growing. The housing market is booming. Farmland is being sold and developed into multiunit housing developments faster than you can sa
  
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• Say bye-bye Hogle Zoo's baby giraffe Willow before she heads to Florida Monday

  28-10-2017 18:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — Sunday is baby giraffe Willow's last day at Utah's Hogle Zoo before she joins a giraffe herd at the Jacksonville Zoo in Florida.
  Willow, 19 months old, will join a herd of two males and five females ranging in age from 18 months old to 20 years.
  Willow, 6 feet tall as a baby, is now described by zookeepers as a 10-foot "firecracker."
  In the wild, giraffes form social herds but individuals will move in and out of the groupings as they please. Young giraffes typically leave
  
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• Intermountain's flagship hospital celebrates 10th anniversary Sunday

  28-10-2017 17:43
  
  Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, has cared for 6.3 million patients in the decade since opening in October 2007.
  
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• Ralph Becker: New airport light rail service is a must-have for Salt Lake City

  28-10-2017 17:05
  Arguments and actions against bringing light rail service directly to the entrance of Salt Lake City’s new international airport, which serves over 23 million passengers annually, are shortsighted and irresponsible. I commend the City Council for re-engaging the stakeholders to try to resolve the financial shortfall and bring TRAX to the terminal entrance.While the rebuild of Salt Lake City’s airport is the most expensive construction project in Utah’s history — $3 billio
  
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• 'Stranger Things' star brings smiles to Utahns with rare genetic disorder

  28-10-2017 06:23
  
  The hit show "Stranger Things" just launched its second season on Netflix. One of the show's stars is spending time in Utah, and it has nothing to do with the program. It's all about doing good.
  
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• Man dies after assault in Orem

  28-10-2017 04:51
  
  A man died Friday after he was assaulted Thursday in Orem, according to police.
  
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• 8-year-old calls the shots as firefighter for a day

  28-10-2017 03:31
  
  Eight-year-old Caleb Terry said he's always wanted to be a firefighter. He got his chance Friday, thanks to the Unified Fire Authority and a local foundation that helps kids and families battling cancer.
  
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• Regulations, education help lower teen e-cigarette use, health department says

  28-10-2017 03:06
  OGDEN — When it comes to e-cigarettes, keeping them out of the hands of teens can be difficult.
  A few years ago, an estimated 20 percent of teens in Weber and Morgan counties said they had at least tried e-cigarettes — battery-operated devices that deliver nicotine and flaring through clouds of water vapor.
  The health department gets those numbers from surveys taken at area schools every two years. As the percentage of teens using e-cigarettes peaked in 2013, the department went to w
  
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• Monitoring stations helping experts predict algae bloom outbreaks at Utah Lake

  28-10-2017 02:30
  
  Even with this summer's high mountain runoff, Utah Lake was plagued again with an algae bloom. But this year, the warning was sounded much faster, thanks to a new secret weapon on the lake.
  
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• Kearns man pleads guilty to killing Magna mom, trying to suffocate her daughter

  28-10-2017 02:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — In a plea deal that spares him the death penalty, a Kearns man pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a Magna mother and attempting to suffocate her daughter.
  Jason Alan Black, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, a first-degree felony and a capital offense, in the death of Natalia Casagrande, 24, and attempted aggravated murder, a first-degree felony, for trying to kill Casagrande's 5-year-old daughter by suffocating her with a throw pillow.
  Black also pleaded guilty to t
  
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• President Trump heading to Utah to announce monument changes

  28-10-2017 01:59
  SALT LAKE CITY — The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump will visit Utah in December for his official announcement on boundary reductions to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
  "I am not going to get ahead of the president's announcement on the specifics, but I can tell you he will be going to Utah in the first part of early December," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a televised news briefing.
  Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
  
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• Sen. Hatch, Oracle CEO help laud Utah's women tech leaders

  28-10-2017 01:47
  SALT LAKE CITY — While Utah companies continue to struggle in achieving employment equity in the technology sector, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Oracle CEO Safra Catz helped celebrate Utah's women tech leaders at an awards event Friday.
  The Women Tech Awards is a program to "recognize women across all technology disciplines who are trailblazing new paths, leading and founding technology companies, and building innovative tools, technologies and experiences," according to the Women Tech Council, th
  
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• Tooele County sheriff implementing new safety measures for Country Fan Fest

  28-10-2017 01:46
  TOOELE — Security at large gatherings continues to be a topic of conversation across the country, especially after the shootings in Las Vegas earlier this month.
  In light of the shootings, Tooele County Sheriff Paul Wimmer is implementing new safety procedures for the annual Country Fan Fest.
  A lot of people attend the three-day festival in July, and it's an event that's becoming more popular every year. Thousands of people attend the event at the Deseret Peak Complex.
  With larger crowds a
  
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• Police searching for missing Orem man

  28-10-2017 01:33
  
  Police are asking for the public’s help in searching for a man who has been missing since Tuesday.
  
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• Community comes out to ask questions of Count My Vote backers

  28-10-2017 01:29
  COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — Dozens of community members asked questions and voiced their opinions on the Count My Vote initiative at public hearings that began Friday.
  "Utah is a community, civic-minded state, but yet over the past several decades, we've had declining participation in our elections. That's what really motivated Count My Vote to organize years ago," Taylor Morgan, executive director of the group behind the drive, said at a hearing in Cottonwood Heights.
  Hosting the seven public he
  
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• Siblings remember Gary Ott as man of adventure, love, integrity

  28-10-2017 01:04
  SALT LAKE CITY — When Gary Ott was in his late teenage years, he was known as the guy who built the fastest car in Cedar City.
  His older brother, Marty Ott, jokes that he "still wakes up at night screaming" from a time when he was in the passenger seat when Gary, driving that car, turned the corner out of their neighborhood and floored the gas pedal.
  "That genuinely terrified me," he said with a laugh. "And I'm sure Gary, God bless his soul, is still laughing about it."
  His younger twin si
  
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• Performer critical after being hit by car

  28-10-2017 00:32
  MILLCREEK — A man who had just finished performing at a senior center remained in extremely critical condition Friday after being hit by a car.
  The 60-year-old man was leaving the Osmond Senior Living Memory Care, 950 E. 3300 South, and was walking to his car about 7:25 p.m. Thursday when he was hit while crossing 3300 South, said Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke.
  The man was transported to a local hospital in extremely critical condition. His name was not immediately released.
  The man was
  
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• Trump Plans to Shrink Two National Monuments in Utah

  28-10-2017 00:12
  Senator Orrin Hatch said the president had confirmed that he would approve a plan to reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
  
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