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• Waitress loses cash for rent, presents when purse stolen as she worked

  23-12-2017 23:48
  OGDEN — A woman is asking for help identifying two people she said stole her purse that contained hundreds of dollars she was planning to use for Christmas and for rent.
  Katelyn Robinson said she was working Wednesday night as a server at Roosters Brewing Co., 253 25th St., when a man and a woman who had requested a table walked back toward the restroom and stopped at a coat rack.
  "They came and they picked up my shirt," Robinson said, referencing surveillance video from the business. "The
  
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• Oregon teen killed, 4 others injured in crash on I-215

  23-12-2017 23:36
  
  A 19-year-old boy traveling with his family from Oregon to Utah was killed in a crash on I-215 near Taylorsville Saturday morning, police said.
  
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• Oregon man killed, 4 others injured in crash on I-215

  23-12-2017 23:36
  
  A 19-year-old traveling from Oregon to Utah was killed in a crash on I-215 near Taylorsville Saturday morning, according to UHP.
  
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• Utah mother in D.C. to tout CHIP gets chance encounter with Sen. Orrin Hatch

  23-12-2017 23:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — When Pleasant Grove mother Sonja Reynolds visited Washington, D.C., to share her own family's reliance on the threatened Children's Health Insurance Program, she unexpectedly met face to face with the policy's original author: her own senator.
  The chance meeting happened Tuesday after Reynolds dropped off a note at Sen. Orrin Hatch's office to give him "a little push" to support CHIP, which provides health insurance coverage to 9 million kids.
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• Santa Claus drives school bus instead of sleigh in Utah County

  23-12-2017 22:59
  PROVO — A school bus driver in Utah County says that by decorating his bus and donning a Santa Claus outfit each holiday season, he hopes to share some Christmas cheer with the students.
  The Daily Herald reports Don Fitch was dressed in the red suit and the bushy white beard as he transported students on his Alpine School District bus on Tuesday.
  Bus 834 was decked with holiday decorations and the tunes of Christmas as it took students to schools in Pleasant Grove, Orem and American Fork.
  
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• Missing elderly woman with dementia found dead

  23-12-2017 22:43
  
  A 79-year-old woman who suffered from dementia and went missing early Friday morning in Ogden was found dead on Saturday, police said.
  
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• Spending Christmas 1958 in the Austrian village where 'Silent Night' was written

  23-12-2017 21:35
  Vienna is beautiful in December. As we walked the snow-covered streets, the white flakes reflected the thousands of transparent Christmas lights into what appeared to be a sea of flickering candles. Carol and I were celebrating the third month of our marriage in the Swiss Temple through the purchase of a Christmas tree for our first Christmas together as husband and wife.
  We had spent many Christmases together in past years as we waited for the time when we might seal our love for one another in
  
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• Op-ed: How to forever resolve national monument controversies

  23-12-2017 21:10
  Over the past two decades, presidents from both major American political parties have used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to set aside 11 million acres of land and 760 million acres of oceans as marine monuments. The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments were created under the Obama and Clinton administrations and encompass more than 3 million acres.When President Donald Trump took office, he charged his secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, to review the national monuments c
  
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• 6 local places to worship on Christmas

  23-12-2017 21:01
  
  For those searching for a congregation this holiday season, here’s a non-exhaustive list of six churches that will be holding Christmas services this holiday season.
  
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• 195K Utah residents get insurance through Healthcare.gov

  23-12-2017 20:14
  
  The number of Utah residents who signed up for government-subsidized health insurance this year using the federal HealthCare.gov marketplace shrank slightly.
  
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• Oregon teenager dies in I-215 crash in Utah

  23-12-2017 19:38
  TAYLORSVILLE — An accident on I-215 left a teen dead and his four family members injured Saturday morning.
  A family of five from Oregon was traveling to somewhere in Utah when the crash happened on southbound I-215 near 5100 South, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.
  Delays are expected in the area until about noon Saturday, according to UHP.
  This report will be updated as more information becomes available.
  
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• Oregon teen killed in I-215 crash near Taylorsville

  23-12-2017 18:31
  
  A teenage boy from Oregon was killed in a crash on I-215 Saturday morning, police said.
  
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• Police: Passenger shot in neck during shooting on 1-15

  23-12-2017 18:00
  
  A woman was shot in the neck on I-15 after a vehicle pulled up next to the car she was riding in and started shooting late Friday night in Salt Lake City, police said.
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee: The tax bill will help, but don't take my word for it

  23-12-2017 16:15
  The tax bill just passed by Congress and soon to be signed into law by the president is not perfect. But I voted for it because it will help working families and small businesses, give almost all Americans an immediate pay raise and create millions of new jobs.You don’t have to take my word for it. In fact, as citizens, you shouldn’t take any politician’s word for it. And, happily, you won’t have to.As in any political debate, there has been a lot of overheated speculatio
  
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• Authorities ID man found dead in San Rafael desert

  23-12-2017 07:06
  GREEN RIVER, Emery County — Authorities say a body found at the snowy foot of a remote cliff on Friday is that of a 53-year-old California man last heard from in October.
  A Division of Wildlife Resources officer spotted the remains of Reynaldo Andico while checking up on a trapper nearby, the Emery County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post late Friday.
  A search for Andico was set to begin Saturday.
  On Friday, a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter hoisted the remains found bel
  
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• Stolen purse at Ogden pub drains woman of $1,600 just before Christmas

  23-12-2017 06:37
  
  A woman was asking for help Friday to identify and find two people she said stole her purse, which contained hundreds of dollars she was planning to use for Christmas and for rent...
  
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• Photos: School dinner provides sweet start to holiday weekend

  23-12-2017 06:36
  Lissandro Cervantes gets a cookie at the inaugural Dinner at the Park, hosted by Granite Park Junior High on Friday. Salad, spaghetti and sweets made the menu for several dinner guests and their parents at the gathering in South Salt Lake. A spokesman for Granite School District said the event was geared at families of the 9 in 10 Granite Park students who qualify for free and reduced-price school lunches.
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• Why leopard pajamas brought the Christmas spirit during the 2008 recession

  23-12-2017 05:59
  I like leopards a lot; I like the way they move and the way their spots are rosettes that are small and densely packed. I have a feeling that I would like the way they think. Leopards fascinate me because of their opportunistic hunting behavior, adaptability to habitats and ability to run 36 mph. They have a notorious ability for stealth and agility.
  So in 2008, when I saw fuzzy, leopard-spot pajamas in a bunch of girl sizes on the shelf of my favorite store in July, I knew they must be mine, an
  
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• Body of California man last heard from 2 months ago found in Emery County

  23-12-2017 05:52
  
  Officials on Friday recovered the body of a California man who had been missing since mid-October.
  
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• Photos: Early present for Salt Lake's less fortunate

  23-12-2017 05:10
  Leigh Cody smiles as she squeezes her new stuffed monkey while talking with Santa during a Christmas feast for the homeless at the Rescue Mission in Salt Lake City on Friday. The Jolley Old Elf gave presents to homeless and low-income children and adults during the annual banquet.
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• Utah ad agency takes holiday greeting cards to the top

  23-12-2017 04:03
  
  Penna Powers puts creative muscle behind its annual holiday card.
  
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• Utah firefighters head home from California

  23-12-2017 02:53
  SALT LAKE CITY — More than two dozen Utah firefighters are set to return from California just in time for Christmas.
  Barry Locke, the engine boss for Weber Fire District, had a single Christmas wish after returning home to his wife and 15-year-old son Friday.
  "I want everyone to make it home safe," Locke said.
  His four-person team from Weber County already is home safe, 2 1/2 weeks after traveling to Southern California to fight the Thomas Fire.
  Others with Unified and West Valley forces w
  
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• Agency pulls some Idaho, Wyoming snowmobile maps after suit

  23-12-2017 02:39
  BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Forest Service has withdrawn snowmobile use maps for two national forests in Idaho and part of another in Wyoming after environmental groups in a lawsuit said the maps violate the federal agency's regulations and environmental laws.
  The Forest Service last week withdrew Over-Snow Vehicle Use Maps for the Payette National Forest and Boise National Forest in Idaho.
  The agency also withdrew the map for the Teton Division of the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming.
  
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• Student housing improvements planned in Orem, Provo

  23-12-2017 02:35
  OREM — A Utah developer has announced plans to build a new complex to house more than 1,000 students at Utah Valley University in Orem, knock down an existing building near Brigham Young University in Provo and remodel another one.
  The (Provo) Daily Herald reports that Nelson Brothers Professional Real Estate plans to build the 1,200-bed University Downs on six acres west of Interstate 15 in Orem.
  It will include a 10-story housing tower with two-adjacent, six-story buildings, one of which
  
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• Light the World initiative's charity vending machines raise $469K

  23-12-2017 02:35
  SALT LAKE CITY — The LDS Church announced Friday that its Light the World initiative has raised nearly half a million dollars this month through charity vending machines temporarily installed on Temple Square.All of the money raised will go to five charities represented in the machines at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building."As of today the machines have logged 23,899 transactions totaling $469,085 in donations," said Daniel Woodruff, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
  
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• U.S. asks to combine lawsuits over cuts to national monuments

  23-12-2017 02:23
  SALT LAKE CITY — The federal government wants to combine legal challenges to President Donald Trump's decision to drastically shrink two national monuments in Utah.
  The U.S. Department of Justice filed court documents Friday in five lawsuits whose plaintiffs included the outdoor retailer Patagonia, several environmental groups and a coalition of Native American tribes.
  The federal attorneys say lawsuits filed over each monument should be heard together because they deal with the same legal
  
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• New voting districts drawn in Navajo discrimination suit

  23-12-2017 02:07
  SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge has handed down new voting districts to replace those declared discriminatory against American Indian voters in southeastern Utah, but a prominent county commissioner said Friday that the county plans to appeal.
  The new election districts are designed to give an equal voice in local races to native residents who make up about half the population. Mark Maryboy called them a well-deserved victory that comes after a half century of struggle.
  "It means a great
  
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• Local biotech firm scores former Dick's Sporting Goods space for new HQ

  23-12-2017 01:56
  SALT LAKE CITY — Once the home for a purveyor of accessories for healthy outdoor activities, a sprawling anchor space in downtown's Gateway shopping center will now play host to a company committed to solving some of the most perplexing — and lethal — internal health issues facing the world of medicine.
  Salt Lake City-based Recursion Pharmaceuticals, a rapidly expanding biotech firm founded in 2013, has outgrown two previous spaces at Research Park, and according to co-founder
  
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• ‘Great Outdoors Bandit’ who robbed five Treasure Valley banks pleads guilty

  23-12-2017 01:47
  
  Josue Daniel Alfaro, better known as the “Great Outdoors Bandit” for his robberies of banks in the Treasure Valley, pleaded guilty to five counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
  
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• Addicts receive naloxone kits as precaution during 'stress' of holidays

  23-12-2017 01:33
  SALT LAKE CITY — As hard as it is to stay sober year-round for recovered addicts, Brett Fabert says, the holiday season makes that already uphill battle an even steeper climb.
  Fabert speaks from experience, having relapsed at Thanksgiving time after six months completely sober and 2 1/2 years without injecting drugs. He says that "within days" of having a drink on Thanksgiving Day, "I woke up on a toilet, just hunched over, drugs on the ground."
  "You'd like to be able to really pinpoint &m
  
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• Ogden police seek public’s help locating elderly woman with dementia

  23-12-2017 01:00
  
  Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a 79-year-old woman who suffers from dementia missing since early Friday morning.
  
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• Photos: Ogden airman gets new roof thanks to volunteers

  23-12-2017 00:54
  The Northern Wasatch Home Builders Association, Roofers Supply and Dave Kemp Roofing replace Hill Air Force Base airman Matt Carvajal's roof on his home in Ogden on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. After purchasing the home in March Carvajal discovered that the roof leaked so badly that the light fixtures filled up with water. The Northern Wasatch Home Builders Association volunteered to replace the roof. Roofers Supply donated materials, and Dave Kemp Roofing volunteered the labor. An 11-man crew removed
  
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• Op-ed: Utah's public lands are more complicated than we think

  23-12-2017 00:45
  Recognizing the unsurpassable beauty of Zion Canyon, civil engineer Leo Snow surveyed the canyon and then recommended it to the federal government to become a national monument in 1909. President William Howard Taft designated about 16,000 acres, and later that was expanded to 146,597 acres. Snow, my great-grandfather, designed and built roads, bridges and even the Mount Carmel tunnel, creating access to the scenic wonders of southwestern Utah. What he started has influenced the ecology and econ
  
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• Salt Lake City delays garbage pickup by one day during holidays

  23-12-2017 00:44
  SALT LAKE CITY — The city's Sustainability Department is reminding residents that all waste and recycling service will be delayed by one day during the holidays to allow for staff to have time off Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
  In addition, Christmas trees may be disposed of in two ways: Residents may cut trees into no larger than 4-foot lengths and place them in the brown compost container for immediate disposal. Ornaments and lights must be removed. Flocked trees will not be accepted
  
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• Rowland Hall celebrates 20-plus years helping needy families at Christmas

  23-12-2017 00:31
  Alexxis-Starr Gomez carries a turkey given to her family during the Christmas Food Giveaway at Rowland Hall Middle School in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. The event is expected to serve approximately 800 families in need. Rowland Hall has hosted the event for more than 20 years.
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• Photos: Rowland Hall celebrates 20-plus years helping needy families at Christmas

  23-12-2017 00:31
  Alexxis-Starr Gomez carries a turkey given to her family during the Christmas Food Giveaway at Rowland Hall Middle School in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. The event is expected to serve approximately 800 families in need. Rowland Hall has hosted the event for more than 20 years.
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