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• Hundreds protest Trump's monument changes in Salt Lake City

  02-12-2017 22:01
  
  Hundreds of people gathered on the front steps of the Utah State Capitol on Saturday afternoon to protest the Trump administration’s proposed shrinking of two southern Utah national monuments.
  
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• 5-year-old Herriman boy found unconscious in bathtub dies

  02-12-2017 20:37
  
  A 5-year-old boy found unconscious in a bathtub Thursday has died, officials confirmed Saturday.
  
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• Photos: Operation Santa helps 101 children throughout valley

  02-12-2017 20:33
  Yereni Arellanes and her children, Diego, 7, Stella, 4, and Edgar, not visible in photo, leave with a full shopping cart as part of the six annual Operation Santa at Goodwill in Millcreek on Saturday. This year's event — a project of the Rotary Club of Midvale that benefits low-income, special needs and refugee families — helped 101 children from 32 families. Unified police officers provided a convoy for the event and Unified firefighters brought Santa to visit and take pictures with
  
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• Missing Sandy boy found ‘unharmed and safe’

  02-12-2017 20:26
  
  Unified police located a 1-year-old boy late Saturday morning who had been missing since Friday evening.
  
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• Hatch, Lee celebrate 'historic' passage of GOP tax bill

  02-12-2017 20:15
  SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump tweeted congratulations to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, after the passage of the Republican tax bill early Saturday.
  The Republican leaders touted the hard-fought battle, saying it would boost America's prosperity.
  "This is a great achievement of something that will literally help millions and millions of young people in our society and our society as a whole," Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said during a 2 a.m. press conference. He ca
  
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• Op-ed: Multiple-use lands offer a truly diverse outdoor experience

  02-12-2017 20:05
  As a Utah native, I love our wild places and wildlife. Some of my best personal and family experiences have been in Utah's magnificent outdoors, while hiking, skiing, camping, hunting and fishing.I had the great fortune of serving as CEO of two major companies operating in Utah: Alliant Techsystems (ATK) and Vista Outdoor. Vista is one of the world’s largest outdoor companies, and I established Vista’s corporate headquarters in Utah because of our educated workforce, quality of life
  
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• Highway to North Rim of Grand Canyon will close Tuesday

  02-12-2017 19:38
  PHOENIX — The highway to the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona is scheduled to close Tuesday for the winter.
  The date for Arizona state Route 67's seasonal closure was announced Thursday by the Arizona Department of Transportation, which noted that it doesn't clear snow from the road during the winter when North Rim visitor accommodations are shuttered.
  The highway reopens each spring, usually in mid-May.
  — Associated Press
  
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• Orem students make princess wigs for girls battling cancer

  02-12-2017 19:33
  PROVO (AP) — It's hard to feel like a princess when you have no hair.
  Students at the Lumen Scholar Institute in Orem want little girls struggling with cancer to feel like princesses. After two months of preparation, they gathered in late November at the school to assemble 91 unique yarn wigs to send to the Magic Yarn Project.
  The Magic Yarn Project is a nonprofit based in Alaska, with a local Utah chapter. The group crochets, assembles and delivers Disney-themed yarn wigs to pediatric can
  
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• Allegiant Air suspending flight between Las Vegas and Ogden

  02-12-2017 19:31
  OGDEN — Allegiant Air has announced that it will suspend its service between Ogden and Las Vegas less than two weeks after it began offering the nonstop service.
  Ogden City Chief Administrative Officer Mark Johnson told the Standard-Examiner Thursday that the service will be suspended starting Jan. 5 due to low passenger numbers in comparison to other Allegiant flights out of the Ogden-Hinckley Airport.
  Allegiant Air spokeswoman Hilarie Grey says it will be a seasonal suspension.
  Grey did
  
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• Police seek public’s help in finding 1-year-old boy missing from Sandy

  02-12-2017 07:34
  
  Unified Police officers are seeking the public’s help in locating a 1-year-old boy who was picked up by his father Friday morning and not returned in the evening.
  
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• Program aims to help teens struggling with depression or suicidal thoughts

  02-12-2017 06:13
  
  It’s a topic not everyone is comfortable discussing. But for a group of teenagers with The Reach Program, talking about depression and suicide is important.
  
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• U. researchers hope to find opioid alternative in marine snails

  02-12-2017 05:10
  
  A team of University of Utah researchers has been awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S Department of Defense to study an unlikely subject: snails.
  
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• Police buy new bike for 3rd grader after original was vandalized

  02-12-2017 04:04
  
  A third-grader whose bicycle was vandalized learned a lesson about human nature Friday — that caring people can turn a negative into a positive.
  
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• Road Home residents try out for construction jobs in Operation Rio Grande service project

  02-12-2017 03:53
  SALT LAKE CITY — Travis Johnson wiped sweat from his nose as he helped dismantle the 8-foot high, graffiti-riddled plywood fence bordering the Road Home's outdoor playground.
  In bold block letters on the outside perimeter, a message on the fence read: "Welcome to the Rio Grande neighborhood. Hope for the future gives us strength today."
  Johnson said he's been living at the Road Home since August, ever since he spent his last dollar on traveling to Salt Lake City from New York, but when he
  
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• Caution urged after 3 people hit at Sandy crosswalk

  02-12-2017 03:32
  
  Two of three people injured in an auto-pedestrian accident in Sandy were upgraded to critical but stable condition Friday. UDOT warns pedestrians to assume the worst and take precautions.
  
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• New drug brings new hope for patients with multiple sclerosis

  02-12-2017 02:29
  
  A new drug approved earlier this year by the FDA is bringing new hope to patients with multiple sclerosis.
  
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• Police: Package thieves shoot at man who tailed him

  02-12-2017 02:18
  HERRIMAN — A pair of suspected package thieves on Wednesday morning fired a semi-automatic handgun at a witness who followed the couple in his car.
  The witness sought to take pictures and send them to police after spotting the man and woman making off with boxes from a home in the 5200 block of Ambermount Drive, the Unified Police Department said in a statement. The pair drove a white Chevrolet Impala.
  The witness was trailing the two to get a better look when a man in a black baseball cap
  
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• Photos: Speedskater tries to instill passion for her sport in students

  02-12-2017 02:16
  USA speedskater Kristen Santos talks to students about her sport and Olympic ambitions at Rose Creek Elementary in Riverton on Friday. Santos was at the school to teach the students about the sport and to share her Winter Olympic journey. Santos is among more than 40 Winter Olympic hopefuls across the country supported by Dick's Sporting Goods Contenders program, which offers in-store positions, providing these athletes steady income to pay bills and flexible working hours for training purposes.
  
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• Photos: Winter Faire puts Renaissance twist on Christmas

  02-12-2017 01:48
  Allison and Talon Wells talk with Santa while at the Utah Winter Faire at the Legacy Events Center in Farmington on Friday. The fair, now in its fifth year, is a family-oriented event that combines the best elements of Renaissance Faires with steampunk, fantasy, pirate, history, pop culture and more. The fair, which runs through Sunday, features free entertainment and hand-picked vendors. The fair is open noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12 or $39 for any group of
  
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• Idaho man charged in sextortion case involving Utah teen

  02-12-2017 01:47
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Pocatello man has been charged in a sextortion case involving a Utah high school student.
  Michael Brent Powell, 20, was charged Nov. 20 in Logan's 1st District Court with aggravated sexual extortion of a child, a first-degree felony, and 12 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.
  According to charging documents, a 17-year-old girl had a two-year relationship, both online and in person, with Powell but recently broke it off. During their relation
  
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• U.S. presidents and Mormon leaders: A history of visits to Utah

  02-12-2017 01:37
  SALT LAKE CITY — When President Donald Trump comes to Salt Lake City on Monday, he'll be the 23rd sitting president of the United States to visit Utah. And when he tours the LDS Church's Welfare Square, he'll be the 17th president to either meet with church leaders or set foot on church properties or facilities.
  Most visiting presidents have interacted with one or more leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoken at the Salt Lake Tabernacle or dropped by a church faci
  
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• When do Utah drivers need chains on their tires?

  02-12-2017 01:28
  BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON — The crash that injured Brittany Kidd happened just two weeks ago, during one of the first winter storms of the season.
  As a canyon patrol driver for the Utah Department of Transportation, Kidd rescues stranded drivers and helps maintain roads in Big and Little Cottonwood canyons.
  During a snowstorm in Big Cottonwood Canyon on Nov. 17, she was following snowplows near the Donut Falls Trailhead when another driver steered around the plows, lost control of the vehicle
  
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• 15-year-old Utah girl places in 2017 Trampoline World Age Group Championships

  02-12-2017 01:17
  
  On Nov. 20, 15-year-old Timpanogos high school sophomore, Ashley McDonald, stuck a perfect pass in her tumbling routine to place at the 2017 Trampoline World Age Group Championships.
  
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• Feds seek 5-year prison term for FLDS leader in food stamp fraud case

  02-12-2017 00:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors want the leader of a multimillion dollar Fundamentalist LDS Church welfare fraud scheme to spend five years behind bars.
  The U.S. Attorney's Office in court documents filed Friday described a long list of reasons why Lyle Steed Jeffs should go to prison, including his fleeing custody.
  Jeffs directed FLDS Church members to divert $11.2 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits over a five-year period, according to court pape
  
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• Trump's advance team checks out Utah Capitol

  02-12-2017 00:28
  SALT LAKE CITY — Amid the usual tourists taking pictures in the Capitol rotunda Friday morning, a group of Secret Service agents and other members of President Donald Trump's advance team looked over locations for his upcoming visit.
  The White House has confirmed the president will come to Utah on Monday morning. He is expected to announce new boundaries for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments at the state Capitol around noon.
  Trump is heading to the state at a
  
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