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• Monte Cristo, Big Mountain highways likely to close by mid-Novemeber

  03-11-2017 23:48
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Transportation announced it is evaluating road conditions daily on state Route 39, the Monte Cristo Highway, and S.R. 65, the Big Mountain Highway, and will likely close the roads by mid-November due to weather conditions.
  Regardless, the roads will close, no matter the weather, by midnight on Thursday, Nov. 30.
  When the closures do occur, S.R, 39 will be closed between milepost 37 at the Ant Flat Road area east of Huntsville, Weber County, and milep
  
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• Governor? ?names? ?new? ?chair?woman ?of? ?Utah? ?Board? ?of? ?Pardons? ?and? ?Parole

  03-11-2017 23:45
  SALT? ?LAKE? ?CITY? — ?Gov.? ?Gary? ?R.? ?Herbert? has? ?appointed? ?Chyleen? ?Arbon? ?as? ?chairwoman ?of? ?the Utah? ?Board? ?of? ?Pardons? ?and? ?Parole.? ?
  Arbon? ?succeeds? ?Angela? ?Micklos,? ?who? ?has? ?served? ?as? ?chair?woman ?since? ?2014. Since? ? Herbert? ?began? ?making? ?appointments? ?to? ?the? ?board? ?in? ?2009,? ?he? ?has? ?chosen? ?to? ?rotate? ?the leadership? ?role? ?between? ?members? ?every? ?three? ?to? ?four? ?years.? ?Micklos? ?will? ?continue? ?to? ?serve? ?as?
  
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• Clearfield karate instructor charged with raping teen student

  03-11-2017 23:44
  CLEARFIELD — A 20-year-old karate instructor has been charged with rape and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.
  Damian Tyler Fullmer, of Clearfield, was charged Thursday in 2nd District Court with two counts of rape, a first-degree felony; two counts of forcible sodomy, a first-degree felony; and eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.
  The 14-year-old told police that beginning about September of 2016, "she began to sneak out
  
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• Nov. 15 last day to apply for sportsman permit

  03-11-2017 23:27
  SALT LAKE CITY — Attention big game hunters. The deadline to submit an application for a sportsman permit is 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15.
  According to Lindy Varney, wildlife licensing coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, the permits are limited to Utah residents only and allows hunters to hunt on every unit in the state that is open to the species the permit is for.
  One sportsman permit is offered for each of the following species: Desert bighorn ram, Rocky Mountain bighor
  
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• UTA seeking public feedback on East Bench service

  03-11-2017 23:26
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Transit Authority will hold three public meetings to get feedback on how it can better provide service between the University of Utah and the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley while making use of existing resources.
  The meetings will be held at the following times and locations:
  • Tuesday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Cottonwood Heights City Hall, 2277 E. Bengal Blvd.
  • Wednesday, Nov. 15, 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Holladay City Hall, 4580 S. 2300 East.
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• Conservative commentator Bill Kristol wonders about future of GOP

  03-11-2017 23:24
  SALT LAKE CITY — An outspoken conservative critic of President Donald Trump says it would take an economic or a foreign policy crisis to keep the GOP from nominating him for a second term.
  There will be a challenge in 2020 because there are enough Republican leaders who think the party can do better than Trump, said Bill Kristol, a political commentator and founder of the Weekly Standard political magazine. But it would be an uphill battle to defeat a sitting president in a party primary.
  
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• Consultant's fees for University of Utah president search to start at $100,000

  03-11-2017 21:56
  SALT LAKE CITY — The headhunter hired to conduct the search for the next president of the University of Utah will charge a minimum of $100,000 for his services.
  "In this instance, we have agreed upon a fixed fee of $100,000 plus administrative and direct out-of–pocket expenses," states a letter from R. William Funk and Associates of Dallas to David Buhler, Utah commissioner of higher education.
  The letter, obtained through a state Government Records Access and Management Act request,
  
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• 'This is Utah' photo contest calls for nationwide photography talent

  03-11-2017 21:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — What is Utah? The state’s Film Commission wants to find out with a photo contest open to the nation.Photographers from around the country are being asked to “showcase the state’s beauty and diversity” in the new contest initiative called “This is Utah,” sponsored by the Utah Film Commission.“Our mission is to inspire creatives and visionaries to bring compelling stories to life here in Utah,” said Virginia Pearce, director of
  
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• Op-ed: Every person has God-given dignity. We must protect those who are vulnerable.

  03-11-2017 20:45
  As a person of faith, as an ethnic and religious minority, as a human being, I know what it means to be harassed, ignored and treated as less than a valued member of society by some people. I am grateful that these experiences have not been frequent.The unfortunate reality is that at some point in our life’s journey we will meet someone who refuses to recognize our inherent, God-given human dignity. Those moments will be hurtful and diminishing, but for many will not necessarily be threate
  
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• Driver pleads guilty in crash that killed 2 friends, injured pregnant woman

  03-11-2017 20:39
  
  The driver in a severe high-speed crash that killed two of his friends and injured a pregnant woman pleaded guilty Friday.
  
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• Police: Missing man found, returns to facility

  03-11-2017 19:21
  
  A 66-year-old man that was originally reported missing from a rehabilitation center returned Friday morning.
  
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• Police: Missing, endangered man has been found

  03-11-2017 19:21
  
  Police say a missing 66-year-old man with significant health concerns has been found.
  
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• SLC receives $50K to preserve historic Utah Pickle Company, Hide buildings

  03-11-2017 19:16
  
  Salt Lake received a $50,000 preservation grant to restore its historic Utah Pickle Company and Hide buildings, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced Thursday.
  
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• Will tech company Health Catalyst become a Utah unicorn?

  03-11-2017 18:59
  
  In the fantasy world, the unicorn is a rare creature. In the tech world, it’s even rarer. And health care technology company Health Catalyst may well join Utah's small herd of tech unicorns.
  
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• Counselor had inappropriate relationship with teen girl, charges state

  03-11-2017 18:48
  SALT LAKE CITY — A youth counselor accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a teenage girl he met in treatment has been booked into the Salt Lake County Jail.
  Mart "Marty" Clough, 32, of Midvale, was charged Oct. 12 in 5th District Court in St. George with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony, and enticing a minor over the internet, a class A misdemeanor.
  A $50,000 warrant was issued for Clough's arrest. He was picked up by officers from the Div
  
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• How a Mormon pioneer woman became the nation's first female state senator

  03-11-2017 18:19
  On Nov. 3, 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon was elected to represent Utah's 6th Senate District, defeating a group of candidates that included her own husband and earning the title of the United States' first woman state senator.
  In addition to a two-term senator, Cannon was many things: a Welsh-born immigrant, a Mormon pioneer, a highly educated and successful doctor, a polygamous wife, a mother of three and a vocal champion for women's suffrage.
  Here's a look back at her eventful life and the experi
  
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• Charges: Man sexually abused woman under guise of 'anatomy research'

  03-11-2017 18:11
  PROVO — A man who police say posed as a doctor on Craigslist, lured women to his office and then sexually assaulting them has been charged with 17 felonies.
  Borzin Mottaghian, 34, of Provo, was charged Tuesday in 4th Distinct Court with 12 counts of object rape and two counts of attempted object rape, first-degree felonies; two counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony; and attempted sexual abuse, a third-degree felony.
  A court hearing is scheduled for Monday.
  Mottaghian, who
  
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• Sales of iPhone X begin: Can Apple live up to the hype?

  03-11-2017 17:53
  
  Apple's iPhone X went on sale Friday, as the company scrambles to meet demand for a marquee device that sports a lush screen, facial-recognition skills and a $1,000 price tag .
  
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• Police looking for missing South Salt Lake man

  03-11-2017 15:39
  SOUTH SALT LAKE — Police are asking for help in finding a 66-year-old man with "significant health concerns" who walked away from a care facility Thursday afternoon.
  Jimmy Brown lives at Avalon Valley Rehabilitation Center, 2472 S. 300 East, and was last seen at 1 p.m. Thursday, according to police. He regularly comes and goes from the center, but usually returns by 11 p.m., police said.
  Brown is described as 6 feet tall and 300 pounds, with gray hair and a long, gray beard. He has a cellp
  
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• Flying home for Thanksgiving? Here's what you should expect

  03-11-2017 15:25
  It looks like turkeys won’t be the only thing stuffed for Thanksgiving.Airlines for America revealed Wednesday that Thanksgiving flights will carry a record number of flyers this year.Experts said this is happening because of low airfares."Low fares and increased availability of seats continue to make air travel widely accessible," said John Heimlich, vice president and chief economist of Airlines for America, to CNBC.In total, Airlines for America, a trade group that represents airline ca
  
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• South Salt Lake police seek missing, endangered man

  03-11-2017 14:25
  
  South Salt Lake police are asking for the public's help to locate a missing 66-year-old man with significant health concerns.
  
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• In our opinion: Affordable housing through motel purchase is wise move for city

  03-11-2017 13:05
  The decision by Salt Lake City to buy a North Temple motel that’s been a neighborhood nuisance for years and turn it into a complex with affordable housing units is a move that effectively strikes at the nexus of the area’s homeless crisis. It may not have the kind of impact that leaders anticipate will come from the newly granted $100 million Medicare waiver, but the hotel nonetheless serves as an important symbol and step in the city’s efforts to improve its struggling Rio Gr
  
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• Police say many who left Rio Grande weren't really homeless as communities experience residual issues

  03-11-2017 06:17
  
  Operation Rio Grande quickly transformed a place known for large-scale urban camping, open-air drug use and drug deals into a spot someone might actually dare to attempt a sack lunch—and now police believe a large percentage of the street dwellers.
  
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• Funeral home suspended after reports of mixing remains, stealing jewelry

  03-11-2017 05:32
  SALT LAKE CITY — State officials suspended the license of a mortuary in South Salt Lake after reports of employees stealing jewelry from bodies, conducting cremations without identification and leaving bodies outside refrigerators.
  On Thursday, the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing released an emergency order suspending the licenses of the Carver Mortuary Service and funeral directors Tanner Carver and Shane Westmoreland.
  The directors "engaged in conduct which const
  
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• Ballpark residents vent at Utah Speaker Greg Hughes over Operation Rio Grande impact

  03-11-2017 05:28
  SALT LAKE CITY — House Speaker Greg Hughes faced the ire of angry Ballpark residents during the neighborhood's Community Council meeting Thursday night.
  There was Chris Derbidge, a father who started walking his 12-year-old daughter to the bus stop near 1200 S. West Temple because drug dealers started showing up after Operation Rio Grande began in August.
  "Did you realize the drug dealers you were pushing out of there were going to be dealing drugs outside my daughter's school bus every da
  
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• How a Mormon pioneer woman became the nation’s first female state senator

  03-11-2017 05:06
  On Nov. 3, 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon was elected to represent Utah's 6th Senate District, defeating a group of candidates that included her own husband and earning the title of the United States' first woman state senator.
  In addition to a two-term senator, Cannon was many things: a Welsh-born immigrant, a Mormon pioneer, a highly educated and successful doctor, a polygamous wife, a mother of three and a vocal champion for women's suffrage.
  Here's a look back at her eventful life and the experi
  
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• Rich High School’s confederate rebel on its way out

  03-11-2017 04:41
  
  For more than 30 years, a rebel soldier wearing the Confederate gray uniform stood as Rich High School's symbol, but that’s about to change.
  
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• Fire crews starting fires in hopes to reduce potential threats

  03-11-2017 03:04
  
  Fire officials are intentionally starting fires and controlling them in the Wasatch National Forest in hopes to reduce potential threats later on.
  
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• Salt Lake City Council candidate reports online threat, sexual harassment to police

  03-11-2017 02:31
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City Council candidate has gone to police after she says a resident sexually harassed and threatened her.
  Amy Fowler, a candidate for the District 7 Salt Lake City Council seat, issued a statement Thursday evening saying she received three private Facebook messages Wednesday night, containing "extremely vulgar language," "explicit sexual content" and "a photo of someone brandishing a gun."
  Fowler said she has reported the messages to the Salt Lake City Police D
  
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• State School Board seeks resources to help with juvenile justice reforms

  03-11-2017 02:24
  SALT LAKE CITY — The State Board of Education plans to ask lawmakers for additional resources to support educators' role in juvenile justice reforms passed by the Utah Legislature earlier this year.
  HB239, sponsored by Rep. Lowry Snow, R-Santa Clara, made sweeping changes in how youth are treated in the state's juvenile justice system. The legislation, which passed with overwhelming support, seeks to change how juveniles are dealt with in the criminal justice system, while not jeopardizing
  
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• Photos: S.L. School District cuts ribbon for new elementary, community learning center.

  03-11-2017 01:40
  Kindergarten and first-grade students sing at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Liberty Elementary School and Community Learning Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday. The school, which opened in August, replaced Lincoln Elementary, which closed its doors in June. In addition to the elementary school, the Liberty campus is home to the district's newest community learning center, which will house community programs, after-school care, mental health services, dental and vision screenings, a med
  
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• Healthy tips to stay on track during the holidays

  03-11-2017 00:58
  
  Developing a healthy plan to get through the holiday season.
  
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• USTAR innovation center aimed at seeding aerospace startups

  03-11-2017 00:50
  CLEARFIELD — The Utah Science, Technology and Research Initiative, the state's tech-focused economic development agency, will open the doors Friday on a new facility near Hill Air Force Base aimed at seeding new, Utah-based aerospace and innovation companies.
  The USTAR Innovation Center, located in Falcon Hill Research Park, can house multiple tenants, has co-working space and comes equipped with a variety of advanced equipment to help early stage companies build prototypes and engage in p
  
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• Photos:I ran ... I ran so far away

  03-11-2017 00:50
  Peter Drew chases seagulls — or is it the other way around? — at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday. According to KSL meteorologist Grant Weyman, Friday's weather is expected to be warm and breezy again, with high temperatures near 65. A storm is expected to move into the Wasatch Front area late Saturday and into Sunday, bringing with it rain and mountain snow.
  
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• UHP identifies Tooele woman killed in rollover crash near Erda

  03-11-2017 00:38
  
  Police identified a woman on Thursday who was killed in a rollover crash on state Route 36 Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Sheriff's association fields questions from lawmakers about jail standards

  03-11-2017 00:22
  SALT LAKE CITY — Members of the Utah Sheriff's Association visited the state Capitol Thursday to field legislators' questions about jail standards.
  Steven White, Grand County sheriff and president of the association, said the presentation was meant to demonstrate the depth of the standards laid out for Utah jails and what counties in the state are doing to try and improve their jails.
  "We want the public to know, we want the legislators to know, how much work and effort goes into the stand
  
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• U.S. House floats bill on helium extraction

  03-11-2017 00:19
  SALT LAKE CITY — That party balloon, MRI and heart resuscitation pump all rely on an inert gas produced in a handful of states around the nation, including three active wells in Utah.
  A House bill to allow the Bureau of Land Management to lease federal land for helium extraction passed Wednesday, moving the United States a step closer to streamlining the capture of the critical natural resource.
  "Helium has become irreplaceable in our space, defense and medical industries. Without this bil
  
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• Groups sue for details on Trump plan for national monuments

  03-11-2017 00:19
  BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmentalists sued the Trump administration on Thursday, seeking to pry loose details of plans to shrink two Utah national monuments as well as several other protected areas in the U.S.
  The lawsuit alleges the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Interior Department illegally ignored Freedom of Information Act requests for documents related to the issue.
  President Donald Trump has said intends to shrink two monuments in Utah — Bears Ears and Gran
  
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