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• West Jordan police looking for 2 in connection with killing

  06-11-2017 23:46
  WEST JORDAN — Police have named two people of interest in connection with the death of a West Jordan man whose body was found in the middle of a street.
  On Nov. 1, Dan Zuniga-Guzman, 22, was found in the street near 6700 South and 4800 West about 1:30 a.m. He was shot and killed, according to police. Investigators believe, however, that he was shot at a different location and dumped in the street.
  His body was discovered when neighbors heard a commotion outside involving a couple of vehicl
  
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• BLM offers Christmas tree permits across Utah

  06-11-2017 23:35
  SALT LAKE CITY — Bureau of Land Management field offices across the state will sell noncommercial permits to cut pinyon, juniper and fir Christmas trees. Permits are available during regular business hours, excluding federal holidays, at the following locations:
  • Salt Lake City, 2370 S. Decker Lake Blvd.; Nov. 9-Dec. 22; $10 each with a limit of two per household; juniper and pinyon; 801-977-4300. (The office will also sell permits for the Fillmore and Elko, Nevada, field offices.)
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• Rocky Mountain Power asking customers to help lend a hand to those in need

  06-11-2017 23:31
  SALT LAKE CITY — Helping struggling families stay warm and safe just got easier.
  Rocky Mountain Power will match customer donations to the Salvation Army's Lend a Hand program, which helps struggling limited-income customers keep their power on and their homes warm.
  The company will match all contributions with $2 for each $1 donated to the program. Last year, Rocky Mountain Power donations, along with contributions from customers and employees, helped 1,114 households in need throughout U
  
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• DWR hosting free Mule Deer Watch Nov. 18

  06-11-2017 23:31
  GREEN RIVER, Emery County — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is hosting a free Mule Deer Watch on Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Nash Wash Wildlife Management Area located east of Green River.
  The Nov. 18 trip is limited to the first 25 people who register at https://goo.gl/oxc7qV.
  Because the Book Cliffs just north of Nash Wash are a limited-entry hunting unit. the wildlife management area is one of the best places to see deer, especially bucks. Viewers can watch deer from their vehicle
  
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• Turkey talk-line experts want a seat at the emoji table

  06-11-2017 23:03
  SALT LAKE CITY — Since every major holiday has at least one emoji to represent it, the experts at the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line think it's high time to get an official Thanksgiving turkey emoji.
  So they're rallying support, via petition at Change.org, and asking consumers for help — to sign it, share it and make a difference in texting conversations everywhere.
  "We at the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line — the people who talk (and text) about turkey more than anyone — know t
  
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• Utah higher ed system now has 2 presidential searches on its plate

  06-11-2017 22:43
  SALT LAKE CITY — Monday's announcement that Utah Valley University President Matthew S. Holland has been called to serve as a mission president for the LDS Church means Utah's System of Higher Education has a second presidential search on its plate.
  The search for the successor to University of Utah President David Pershing, who is retiring, is underway with the assistance of a Dallas executive search firm.
  Utah Commissioner of Higher Education David Buhler said the system and Utah State B
  
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• West Point man arrested in shooting death at his home

  06-11-2017 22:30
  
  A West Point man was being held without bail in the Davis County Jail Monday for investigation of murder.
  
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• Mexico detains wanted U.S. polygamist, 4 wives

  06-11-2017 22:28
  MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors in northern Mexico say they have detained wanted U.S. polygamist Orson William Black and his followers and are investigating whether Black was involved in the death of three American youths whose bodies were found at a ranch in September.
  The arrest of Black on Sunday — along with four of his wives, a woman described as "a concubine" and about 20 Americans without proper documents — marks the end of the fundamentalist sect leader's long, strange period
  
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• U. to honor vets with several events

  06-11-2017 22:08
  SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah will honor 11 Utah veterans at its 20th annual Veterans Day Commemoration Ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday in the A. Ray Olpin Union Building ballroom.
  The annual tribute is part of a series of events throughout the week, including a panel discussion, a film screening, full-dress military ceremony and a Veterans Day football game.
  The panel discussion, "Identity and Service: The Experiences of Unexpected Minorities in the U.S. Military," will be held at no
  
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• Ex-deputy who abused inmates says department was 'poison,' sentenced to jail

  06-11-2017 22:08
  PARK CITY — A former Daggett County sheriff's deputy accused of assaulting jail inmates was sentenced Monday to 120 days in jail.
  Joshua Cox, 27, fought tears as he described the fallout his family has faced since he was charged.
  Cox doesn't deny what he did was wrong, he said, but he maintains that he became a "catchall" for a department riddled with problems.
  "That jail and that department was poison, and I let it get to me," he said.
  Cox said he was also blamed in the rural Daggett Coun
  
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• KSL Indie Report: Utah Film Commission brings Hollywood to Utah

  06-11-2017 22:04
  
  Director of the Utah Film Commission, Virginia Pearce, talks to KSL.com about why Hollywood loves Utah and where the best resources are for local filmmakers.
  
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• Police searching for 2 persons of interest in West Jordan homicide

  06-11-2017 21:23
  
  Police are searching for two persons of interest after finding a man dead in the middle of a West Jordan street early Wednesday morning.
  
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• Man arrested in West Point shooting death

  06-11-2017 20:23
  WEST POINT — A man was being held without bail in the Davis County Jail Monday for investigation of murder.
  Robin William "RJ" Lundin, 28, was arrested Sunday morning and was being held in the medical unit, according to jail records. In his mug shot, Lundin has obvious facial injuries, including a black eye and what appears to be a large cut over the same eye.
  Davis County sheriff's deputies were called to a report of a shooting early Sunday at 3275 W. 438 North. When investigators arrived
  
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• Feds abruptly drop final charge against ex-UTA board member Terry Diehl

  06-11-2017 20:14
  SALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors abruptly dropped what remained of their watered down criminal charges against former Utah Transit Authority board member Terry Diehl, telling a judge Monday that his decision precluding key evidence "gutted" the government's case.
  "That order flipped the United States' case on its head from a reasonable likelihood of success to a reasonable likelihood of failure," assistant U.S. attorney Mark Hirata told U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups.
  Hirata said t
  
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• Police: Man suspected in Taylorsville robbery barricades himself in Riverton home

  06-11-2017 20:11
  
  A man suspected in an armed robbery of a business in Taylorsville barricaded himself inside a home Monday morning, police said.
  
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• Man convicted of killing cat sentenced to jail

  06-11-2017 19:51
  SALT LAKE CITY — A man convicted of killing his cat was sentenced to jail for a week.
  Tyler Anthony Strickland, 20, of Taylorsville, was convicted in September of aggravated cruelty to animals, a class A misdemeanor. On Friday, he was sentenced to one week in jail, with credit for the one day he has already served, and placed on 36 months of probation.
  Some of the conditions of Strickland's probation include completing a mental health evaluation, submitting to random drug testing, and stay
  
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• Man charged with abusing multiple pets in his house

  06-11-2017 19:21
  SALT LAKE CITY — A man accused of killing or abusing three dogs and a cat in his house has been charged with felony animal abuse.
  Leonardo Tafolla, 25, of Salt Lake City, was charged Monday in 3rd District Court with two counts of torture of a companion animal, a third-degree felony, and two counts of cruelty to an animal, a class B misdemeanor.
  On Sept. 13, Tafolla thew Chika, a poodle-mix, to the ground for pooping in his room, and said she "deserved it" and that "he did not feel bad abo
  
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• UVU president Matt Holland will step down to serve as LDS mission president

  06-11-2017 19:14
  
  Utah Valley University President Matthew S. Holland will step down from his position at the university to serve as a mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  
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• UVU President Matt Holland to leave in June to serve as a Mormon mission president

  06-11-2017 18:14
  OREM — The president of Utah's largest university is leaving for a Mormon mission call.
  President Matthew Holland will step down at Utah Valley University to become President Holland in one of the 400-plus missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  UVU's sixth president announced Monday morning that he will complete the ninth year of his tenure at the school in early June 2018. Holland, 50, and his wife, Paige, then will preside over an English-speaking mission beginning
  
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• Feds drop final charge against ex-UTA board member Terry Diehl

  06-11-2017 17:37
  SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors dropped what remained of their watered down case against former Utah Transit Authority board member Terry Diehl, telling a judge Monday that his decision last week precluding certain evidence "gutted" the government's case.
  "That order flipped the United States' case on its head from a reasonable likelihood of success to a reasonable likelihood of failure," assistant U.S. attorney Mark Hirata told U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups.
  Hirata said the limitation "
  
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• Funeral for slain international U. student set for Monday

  06-11-2017 16:22
  
  Funeral services will be held Monday for University of Utah student ChenWei Guo, who was shot and killed during an attempted carjacking last week.
  
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• In our opinion: Medicaid waiver will address needed relief among Utah's addicted and homeless

  06-11-2017 14:05
  After more than a year of waiting somewhat impatiently, state leaders are expressing relief now that federal authorities have granted a waiver to bring in more than $100 million in Medicaid services for up to 6,000 Utahns living in poverty. As Salt Lake City’s mayor said, “This is a big deal.” Without the money, the state would be hard-pressed to make good on its promise to help people suffering from opioid addiction who are contributing to the state’s seething homeless p
  
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• CHIP only viable through January without new funding, Utah official says

  06-11-2017 07:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Health will be able to continue paying for the Children's Health Insurance Program through the end of January without a reauthorization of funds by Congress, according to state program director Jeff Nelson, thanks to the availability of backup federal money.
  That is a more optimistic timeline than an estimate by the Utah Division of Medicaid and Health Care last month that funds would run out at the end of December if federal legislation to ensure co
  
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• When family life is a circus

  06-11-2017 06:28
  
  For some people, family life is like a circus. For one couple, it is a circus.
  
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• Utah report: Much work remains in preventing health care-related infections

  06-11-2017 06:17
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Health released data this week about the frequency of several types of serious infections suffered by patients in Utah in connection with their hospital stay or other medical care, showing mixed results.
  Karen Singson, manager of the Department of Health's health care-associated infection program, said there is great reason to be encouraged about Utah's lowering rate of "central line-associated blood stream infections," often referred to as CLABSIs.
  
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• Stalking cases up since tragic summer of domestic violence

  06-11-2017 04:52
  SALT LAKE CITY — The text messages came in one after the other, and were very threatening in nature.
  "I'll put a whole clip in your head," stated one, followed by, "Your brains will be pasta" and "I hope I don't ever run into you because that's the last time you going to see light."
  A little over a week later, the woman who received those texts was chased in a car by the man accused of sending them, her ex-boyfriend. At a stop light, the man got out of his car, ran up to hers and tried to
  
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• Police lift evacuation at Cedar City Walmart after bomb threat

  06-11-2017 04:17
  
  Police lifted an evacuation at a Walmart and the surrounding area Sunday evening after a reported bomb threat turned out to be false.
  
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• Vivint leads nation in providing smart home service

  06-11-2017 03:59
  LEHI — Megan Jones' decision to have a high-tech monitoring system installed in her Holladay home was precipitated by a terrifying experience she had a couple of years ago.
  After returning home one afternoon, she heard what she thought was a delivery arriving. But when she opened the door, she encountered a man and woman who were actually stealing her packages. The man grabbed Jones, held her down on the ground and told her not to move. The criminals then left with the packages.
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• Uintah County teen killed in rollover accident

  06-11-2017 03:06
  JENSEN, Uintah County — A teenage boy died Saturday after he was ejected from a Jeep and pinned underneath the vehicle.
  The Uintah County Sheriff's Office identified the victim as Conner Wall, 15, of Jensen, who was a passenger in a vehicle driven by a family friend.
  The Jeep was traveling across a side hill and turned to go to the top of the hill when it rolled.
  Authorities say the boy was pinned, but freed by the driver and other family members by the time emergency crews arrived.
  He was
  
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• BYU Army ROTC team advancing in Ranger Challenge competitions

  06-11-2017 02:34
  PROVO — With a regional Ranger Challenge title in the bag, Brigham Young University's Army ROTC has its collective eye on Texas.
  That's because Texas is this month's stop on a three-level progression in the Ranger Challenge, a prestigious annual military skills competition within the United States Army Cadet Command for college-based Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.
  And it's because BYU's Army ROTC wants to do what its counterparts at the University of Texas-Austin did last year o
  
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• Public learns about dinosaur bones, tarantulas and 'zombie' ants

  06-11-2017 02:32
  
  Hundreds of people got an up close look at the vast collection at the Natural History Museum of Utah during a two-day "Behind the Scenes" event in which they could talk to staff and volunteers about the work that goes on in multiple arenas.
  
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• Cedar City Walmart evacuated as police investigate possible bomb threat

  06-11-2017 00:47
  
  Police confirmed they are investigating a “possible bomb threat” at a Walmart Sunday afternoon.
  
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