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• Police seeking suspect in drug-related shooting in Salt Lake

  29-10-2017 23:59
  SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake police say a drug deal gone bad led to a shooting in a downtown parking garage Sunday, leaving one man injured and another man on the run.
  Salt Lake City Police Lt. Russ Amott said two men met in a secluded area of a parking garage at The Gateway about 1 p.m. for an exchange in which the victim said he was planning to purchase "medical marijuana."
  Amott said the victim was shot in the face/head area but did not sustain life-threatening injuries. Following the sho
  
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• BYU study equates stress to a diet of junk food

  29-10-2017 23:59
  PROVO — A diet of junk food inevitably leads to poor health, but new research has found that stress can have the same effect.
  "We all know that stress can be harmful in a lot of ways," said Laura Bridgewater, professor of microbiology at Brigham Young University and associate dean of BYU's College of Life Sciences.
  Stress has been tied to a number of unhealthy conditions, Bridgewater said, including obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression.
  And some of those tend to be more c
  
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• Police: Man shot over drug dispute in downtown parking garage

  29-10-2017 23:34
  
  A man was shot in the face on Sunday in a parking garage near 200 S. Rio Grande, according to police.
  
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• Salt Lake buys blighted motel, seeks affordable housing plan

  29-10-2017 23:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — In a surprise move this week, the Salt Lake City Council voted to spend $4 million on a blighted motel on North Temple.
  The decision Tuesday to buy the Overniter Motel at 1500 W. North Temple came out of the council's reluctance to OK a $4 million loan to Western Region Nonprofit Housing Corp., which planned to develop the property into a project for mixed incomes, but mostly affordable housing.
  The motel has a troubled past, with "high crime rates, physical deterioration
  
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• State superintendent is all ears on Utah listening tour

  29-10-2017 22:46
  CLEARFIELD — Crouched next to a child's desk, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Syndee Dickson listens intently to a kindergartner explain how she uses an iPad to build her math skills.
  The child doesn't use those words, of course, but she adroitly moves icons about the screen to form groups of four.
  "You're doing great," Dickson says to the child.
  On her way out of the kindergarten classroom at Wasatch Elementary School, Dickson made a point of acknowledging the girl's teacher, t
  
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• About Utah: Hey IOC, how do you like us now?

  29-10-2017 22:35
  SALT LAKE CITY — It's difficult not to be initially enthusiastic about the possibility of having another Olympic Winter Games in Utah — now that an exploratory committee has been convened to decide whether Salt Lake City should throw its hat into the interlocking rings to bid again for the Games, either in 2026 or 2030.
  Unless you're that guy who was directing traffic at Snowbasin or a certain French figure skating judge, you have to search really hard to find anything bad to say abo
  
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• Report: Salt Lake ranks No. 3 in U.S. for real estate investment

  29-10-2017 22:01
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's capital city has joined the ranks of the top cities in America for commercial real estate investment, a new report indicates.
  This year's top cities in the "Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2018," released Thursday by financial services provider PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute were led by top-rated Seattle, followed by Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City at No. 3.
  It was the Utah capital's first top 10 ranking in the annual report, making it the least
  
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• Springville man arrested after multicity chase

  29-10-2017 21:46
  MAPLETON — A Springville man was arrested after police say he led officers from multiple agencies on a chase Sunday afternoon through Mapleton, Payson, Springville and unincorporated areas of Utah County.
  Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon said Michael Charles Rankin, 40, had several encounters with law enforcement Sunday, including fleeing from a Mapleton officer who attempted to pull him over and later driving away from a sheriff's deputy who approached the man's car as he was par
  
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• Springville man arrested after leading police on multicity chase

  29-10-2017 21:46
  MAPLETON — A 40-year-old Springville man is in custody after leading officers from multiple agencies on a chase early Sunday afternoon through Mapleton, Payson, Springville and unincorporated areas of Utah County.
  Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon said Michael Charles Rankin had several encounters with law enforcement Sunday, including fleeing from a Mapleton officer who attempted to pull him over and later driving away from a Utah County deputy sheriff who approached the man's car
  
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• Utah County residents out to fight proposal to sell part of treasured golf course

  29-10-2017 21:44
  
  News has begun to emerge of a private developer that wants to take three holes of the golf course to build a medical campus.
  
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• Man leads police on chase through Utah County

  29-10-2017 21:20
  
  A man led officers on a pursuit in Utah County on Sunday morning before being arrested, police said.
  
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• USU professor hopes robotic hives will help honeybees

  29-10-2017 21:04
  LOGAN (AP) — As a beekeeper, Vladimir Kulyukin is worried about the plight of the honeybee. As a computer scientist, he hopes to help curb colony failures by creating robotic hives.
  The associate professor of computer science has been with Utah State University for 16 years and has spent half of that time as a beekeeper in Cache Valley.
  After a reading an article in Time magazine in 2013 about colony collapse, Kulyukin set out to find a way to incorporate his technical background to collec
  
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• Police: Man dies after fight at Halloween party in Ogden

  29-10-2017 15:54
  
  A fight at a Halloween party late Saturday night in Ogden resulted in the death of a person, police said.
  
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• Hal Boyd: Is Trump good or bad? Is Flake wrong or right?

  29-10-2017 14:45
  Sen. Jeff Flake, a U.S. senator from Arizona and a Latter-day Saint, announced his resignation this week.Some say he showed courage, while others called the move cowardice, or even calculating. It’s long been a political parlor game to weigh motives of politicians, especially when they are deciding whether to exit or enter the arena.But in the Trump era, the stakes seem heightened.President Donald Trump, who Flake vigorously denounced in his recent resignation speech, offered his own theor
  
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• Motorcyclist dies after crash with SUV in South Salt Lake

  29-10-2017 05:38
  SOUTH SALT LAKE — Police say a motorcyclist died following a crash Saturday night with an SUV.
  The motorcyclist, a man in his 40s, was driving westbound on 3300 South shortly before 8:30 p.m. when he struck an SUV that had been traveling east on the same road and was turning left into an apartment complex near 1080 West, said South Salt Lake Police Sgt. Matthew Oehler.
  The man was transported to a nearby hospital with "extremely critical" injuries and later died, according to Oehler. His n
  
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• Elder Christofferson applauds journalists as ambassadors of freedom

  29-10-2017 05:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — Journalists play a crucial role in society as ambassadors of freedom and human rights, Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said on Saturday night.Speaking in Spanish in the Little Theater of the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City, Elder Christofferson told the Inter American Press Association's 73rd general assembly that leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints applaud journalists throughout the Western
  
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• 1 man critically injured in South Salt Lake crash involving motorcycle and car

  29-10-2017 04:30
  
  Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a motorcycle and a car Saturday evening.
  
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• Utah State issues alert following report of sexual assault of student

  29-10-2017 02:47
  LOGAN — Utah State University issued an alert Saturday morning due to a reported sexual assault of a student the evening before, the school has confirmed.
  The Code Blue message — sent out via email, text message and voice alerts — indicated a woman reported being sexually assaulted by two males "near the bottom of Old Main Hill" on campus sometime Friday evening.
  "The victim is unable to give a description of the suspects," who are "unknown to her," the alert stated.
  Additional
  
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• After 60 years in business, Bountiful garden shop permanently closes

  29-10-2017 02:02
  
  Gary Smith has been working at J&L Garden Center since he was 10 years old. Now, Smith is a co-owner of the shop and after nearly 60 years in business, he is saying goodbye.
  
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• Inside the newsroom: Talking fake news with the editor of The Washington Post

  29-10-2017 01:31
  SALT LAKE CITY —
  Journalists need to build trust with the public and continue fighting for freedom of expression in countries where those freedoms are constantly challenged.
  In America, it's about doing the job journalists have been asked to do — report accurately and authoritatively the happenings and events that make up our democracy and do so in a way that will hold up to scrutiny and criticism, and also stand the test of time. How do you do that when the citizenry's trust in medi
  
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• Police: Man ejected, critically injured after driving stolen truck through red light in Herriman

  29-10-2017 01:30
  HERRIMAN — Police say a man was ejected from a stolen pickup truck when he caused a crash by running a red light Saturday morning, critically injuring him.
  Just before 9 a.m., the 24-year-old man was driving southbound on Mountain View Corridor when he ignored a red light at Rosecrest Road and struck a different truck going eastbound through the intersection, said Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke.
  The driver of the allegedly stolen truck, whose name was not released and who police believe w
  
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• Day of the Dead fest a lively tribute to Mexican heritage, lost loved ones

  29-10-2017 01:07
  WEST VALLEY CITY — The 14th annual Day of the Dead celebration at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center on Saturday was a colorful and lively observance of a sacred Mexican holiday that honors departed loved ones.
  The community event, which was expected to draw 6,000 people over the course of the day, was a mix of traditional and stylized observances, which included altars honoring deceased relatives and friends.
  La Toya Alvarado, of West Valley City, said her family celebrates the holiday
  
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