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• Man charged in self-defense shooting strikes plea deal

  20-11-2017 23:59
  SALT LAKE CITY — A man charged in connection with a self-defense shooting when three men attempted to rob him has pleaded guilty to a lesser offense.
  Daniel Christopher Simon, 26, pleaded guilty last week to attempted possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, reduced from a second-degree felony to a class A misdemeanor. He was given credit the same day for time previously served in jail and the case was closed.
  Simon did not face any charges for shooting 30-year-old Jesse Ra
  
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• Utah to pay $349K to settle 'ag-gag' lawsuit

  20-11-2017 23:14
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah has agreed to pay $349,000 in attorney fees to settle a lawsuit over the state's so-called "ag-gag" law that a federal judge found unconstitutional last summer.
  The Legislature approved a bill in 2012 that made it a class B misdemeanor to trespass on private livestock or poultry operations and record sound or images without the owner's permission. It also prohibited seeking employment with the intent of making those recordings.
  The Animal Legal Defense Fund, People fo
  
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• Group says it has new 'solid' info on '95 murder of 6-year-old girl

  20-11-2017 22:52
  
  The family of Rosie Tapia says they have new information about the abduction and murder of the 6-year-old girl - including a potential suspect - that may help police finally solve the 22-year-old case.
  
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• Prosecutors won't seek death penalty in Alaska cruise death involving Utah man

  20-11-2017 22:37
  JUNEAU, Alaska — Federal prosecutors in Alaska do not plan to seek the death penalty in the case of a Utah man accused of killing his wife during a cruise in Alaska.
  Kenneth Manzanares, of Santa Clara in Washington County, has been charged with murder in the death of his wife, Kristy Manzanares, in July. He has pleaded not guilty.
  While the state of Alaska does not have capital punishment, the death occurred while the ship was in U.S. waters.
  Kristy Manzanares was found July 25 in a cabin
  
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• Large Utah families, students big 'losers' under GOP tax plan, groups say

  20-11-2017 22:25
  SALT LAKE CITY — Standing with Utahns who oppose the sweeping Republican tax reform proposals Monday, Tali Bruce described the various successes of her five children, including a grad student in physics, a pre-med student and a college football player.
  "I have five amazing children," she said. "One thing I never thought I would be calling them is losers, but that is what they are under this tax plan."
  Bruce, a Cottonwood Heights councilwoman-elect, said large families would pay $1,400 more
  
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• DWR proposes additional 100 permits for 2017-18 black bear hunt

  20-11-2017 22:19
  
  Due to a healthy black bear population in the state, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologists are proposing an increase to the hunting permits for the 2017-2018 season.
  
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• What's Utah's favorite Thanksgiving dish? No one's really sure.

  20-11-2017 22:00
  What is Utah’s favorite side dish? Recent reports seem unsure.Two recent reports on each state’s favorite side dish are split on what Utahns enjoy most on Thanksgiving, other than the turkey, of course.One report said Utahns have a sweet tooth. Google data collected over the last three years revealed that Utah’s favorite side dish on Thanksgiving Day is yams, according to The Huffington Post.But a separate report offered a more traditional favorite. General Mills compiled data
  
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• Sutherland Institute leader says he won't run for Senate

  20-11-2017 20:44
  
  Sutherland Institute President Boyd Matheson said Monday he will not run for the Utah Senate seat currently held by fellow Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch.
  
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• Meridian LDS temple dedicated, becomes 5th in Idaho, 158th worldwide

  20-11-2017 20:21
  
  President Deiter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the LDS Church’s First Presidency, led a symbolic cornerstone ceremony and dedicated the newly-completed Meridian Idaho Temple Sunday.
  
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• A.M. notes: Charles Manson dies, Trump fires back at LaVar Ball, debate over presidential elections in Utah

  20-11-2017 19:57
  Here’s a look at the news for Nov. 20.Charles Manson dies at 83Charles Manson, the 83-year-old leader of a mysterious cult in the 1960s, died Sunday of natural causes, according to CNN.Back in the late 1960s, Manson was at the helm of a group that wreaked violence in Los Angeles for two days, killing seven people. He constantly made headlines alongside his “Manson Family.”Manson spent a bulk of his life behind bars, having been charged with nine life sentences in California, ac
  
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• Prosecutors won't seek death penalty in Alaska cruise death

  20-11-2017 19:35
  
  Federal prosecutors in Alaska do not plan to seek the death penalty in the case of a Utah man accused of killing his wife during a cruise in Alaska.
  
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• Prosecutors won't seek death penalty for Utahn in Alaska cruise death

  20-11-2017 19:24
  
  The Alaska U.S. attorney's office says it does not plan to seek the death penalty in the case of a Utah man accused of killing his wife during a cruise in Alaska.
  
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• Utah man charged in central Oregon fires faces other charges

  20-11-2017 18:49
  
  A Utah man accused of setting three small wildfires in central Oregon will be prosecuted first in Malheur County before facing arson charges in Deschutes County.
  
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• Police investigate suspicious death in Sandy

  20-11-2017 17:58
  SANDY — Police are investigating what they are calling a suspicious death Monday morning at a Sandy home.
  A 44-year-old man was found in front of a home near 1300 East and 8000 South near some garbage cans, according to Sandy police.
  Sandy Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen said the man showed no obvious signs of trauma, such as gunshot or stab wounds. The death is being investigated as a possible homicide, according to Nielsen.
  The man did not live at the home but was a friend of someone who rente
  
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• Police investigate after man found dead at Sandy home

  20-11-2017 17:25
  
  Police are investigating what they call a suspicious death after a man was found dead in the yard of a home near 1300 East and 8000 South in Sandy Monday morning.
  
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• Woman, children safe after 6-hour SWAT standoff at North Salt Lake home

  20-11-2017 16:13
  
  A man was arrested early Monday morning after a six-hour standoff with SWAT teams while his wife and children were in the home.
  
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• On the same page: Mapleton book club becomes group of treasured friends

  20-11-2017 15:45
  “On the same page” is a series featuring Utah book clubs and will run every other week.Editor's note: If you have a book club and you are interested in being featured, please contact us at [email protected]. Please include your name, your contact information and one or two sentences describing your book club.MAPLETON — Kristy Bourgeous of the Mapleton 18th Ward Book Club said she has become dear friends with the women in the group as they have met and shared their though
  
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• Ever thought of paying to have Christmas lights strung? This Utahn thought so

  20-11-2017 15:39
  SALT LAKE CITY — Twenty-three years ago, a man in a car pulled up to Dean Lyons, a hockey player from Canada who was attending classes at BYU and framing houses for $6 an hour to pay for them, and offered him $25 if he'd come to his house and take down his Christmas lights.
  Dean said no problem.
  He had them down in half-an-hour.
  Man, he thought, that worked out.
  Followed by another thought: I wonder what they'd pay me to put them up?
  That fall, Dean shelled out $20 to print "200 of the che
  
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• Police investigate suspicious death at Sandy home

  20-11-2017 14:55
  
  Police are investigating what they call a suspicious death after a man was found dead in the yard of a home near 1300 East and 8000 South in Sandy Monday morning.
  
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• 'I just hit a brick wall': Tragedy spurs woman to leave career, open yoga studio

  20-11-2017 06:21
  
  Sometimes you don't just need a change of pace. Sometimes you need to start over.
  
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• 1 dead, 6 hospitalized following head-on crash in southeast Utah

  20-11-2017 05:45
  MOAB — One man died and six others were taken to hospitals due to a head-on crash Saturday in southeast Utah, police said.
  Just after 5:45 p.m., the driver of a southbound 2015 Nissan Versa crossed into northbound traffic on state Route 191 in Grand County, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
  A northbound Chrysler Town & Country "attempted to move into the southbound lane" to avoid the Nissan, but the Nissan also corrected back onto the southbound side, resulting in the two vehicles crashing
  
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• About Utah: Lighting up the holidays

  20-11-2017 02:00
  SALT LAKE CITY —
  Twenty-three years ago, a man in a car pulled up to Dean Lyons, a hockey player from Canada who was attending classes at BYU and framing houses for $6 an hour to pay for them, and offered him $25 if he'd come to his house and take down his Christmas lights.
  Dean said no problem.
  He had them down in half-an-hour.
  Man, he thought, that worked out.
  Followed by another thought: I wonder what they'd pay me to put them up?
  That fall, Dean shelled out $20 to print "200 of the che
  
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• S.L. City Council ready to pull the plug on Wingpointe Golf Course

  20-11-2017 01:08
  SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City's Wingpointe Golf Course has been on life support ever since it shuttered in 2015, costing tens of thousands in city funds while Mayor Jackie Biskupski's administration sought ways to salvage the course.
  But now, the City Council is pulling the plug.
  That is, after spending a final $150,000 in an owed debt for leasing the land from the airport.
  While grudgingly reviewing the proposed budget adjustment this week, the City Council voted informally to only supp
  
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• Salt Lake City Council ready to pull the plug on Wingpointe Golf Course

  20-11-2017 01:08
  SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City's Wingpointe Golf Course has been on life support ever since it shuttered in 2015, costing tens of thousands in city funds while Mayor Jackie Biskupski's administration sought ways to salvage the course.
  But now, the City Council is pulling the plug.
  That is, after spending a final $150,000 in an owed debt for leasing the land from the airport.
  While grudgingly reviewing the proposed budget adjustment this week, the City Council voted informally to only supp
  
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• Construction industry struggles with labor shortage

  20-11-2017 00:42
  PROVO (AP) — When looking at the changing skyline of Lehi and Pleasant Grove's technology corridors, or the cranes swinging across downtown Provo, one would think the construction industry is going gangbusters.
  It is, but not without its challenges.
  According to research by Ken Simonson, the chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America, the construction industry is generally very robust. Utah sits in the middle of the pack, adding about 4,000 jobs in the past year.
  "Co
  
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• Retired jurist Christine Durham credits family, faith and colleagues for her trailblazing career

  20-11-2017 00:19
  SALT LAKE CITY — For years Christine Durham was told that because she was a woman, her dream of practicing law and becoming a judge was implausible and inappropriate.
  She didn't listen.
  "The bottom line was that I wanted it very much, and I knew I had the ability and the skill. I just decided to ignore all of the people — and there were plenty of them — who told me that I couldn't, and that women didn't do that, and that women weren't welcome in certain places," Durham recalls.
  
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• Photos: Ceremony honors German prisoners buried at Fort Douglas

  20-11-2017 00:04
  James Burton, honorary consul for Germany, left, U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Gen. A.C. Roper Jr., retired Utah National Guard Maj. Gen. Brian l. Tarbet and German Consul General Hans Jörg Neumann salute a wreath during a ceremony marking Volkstrauertag, the German National Day of Remembrance, at the Fort Douglas Military Cemetery in Salt Lake City on Sunday. Volkstrauertag is a German national holiday similar to Memorial Day. Events are held throughout the world to commemorate those that have se
  
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• Northern Utah school district purchases $5M office building

  20-11-2017 00:03
  LOGAN — A northern Utah school district plans buy a new office facility to replace the current administrative building that dates back to the 1890s.
  The Herald Journal reports the board for the Cache County School District on Thursday approved the $5.2 million purchase of a former call center building in North Logan.
  District officials said administrative employees have outgrown the current facility's capacity as the number of staff has grown due to the increasing student population.
  Tim S
  
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