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• About Utah: 2017: All about bucking the odds

  31-12-2017 23:36
  SALT LAKE CITY — And a warm welcome to 2018. But before we start breaking in the new year, here's an "About Utah" look at the one that just ended.
  Because it was the year of the impossible — when a man who never held public office became president and the Houston Astros — the Houston Astros! — won the World Series — the stories I remember most writing in 2017 were about things that shouldn't have happened but somehow did anyway.
  Leading the way were origin stories a
  
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• Crews still searching in Northern Utah for missing plane, 2 occupants

  31-12-2017 22:34
  
  Air, ground and water crews continued searching Sunday for a small plane that didn’t arrive at Ogden-Hinckley Airport by its scheduled Friday afternoon time.
  
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• Op-ed: Let's actually fix Utah's air pollution

  31-12-2017 18:35
  At times, Utah cities along the Wasatch Front have the worst air pollution in the entire nation. Yes, we live in a bowl where our air pollution gets trapped by inversions in winter, but inversions are unavoidable and natural, and trapped pollution would not be a problem if there were no pollution to trap.We can, should and must fix our air pollution problem, both here and worldwide. Air pollution is harming our health, killing people, shortening all our lives, blocking our view of the great beau
  
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• How Carbon County is 'building a fence' to protect the community from opioids

  31-12-2017 18:21
  PRICE — Jeff Wood had just won election as Carbon County sheriff when his friend died of an opioid overdose in December 2014.
  As he walked into the funeral home for his friend's viewing, he noticed two other viewings underway.
  "Two of the three were overdoses. It's like, 'Wow, this is unreal,'" Wood said.
  Ask anyone in Carbon County about opioid overdoses or suicide, and odds are they have a personal story.
  "Either you know someone, you're related to somebody or you're friends with somebod
  
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• Doug Robinson: The (wild) life and times of a former prep football star

  31-12-2017 16:27
  SALT LAKE CITY — The life and times of Steve Burk sounds like a country song.
  He's been a cowboy, professional hunter, cardsharp, safecracker, escape artist, star athlete, trucker, contractor, convict and guest of the Leavenworth Penitentiary. He's been on both ends of a gun barrel; he's been blown up, shot up, hunted, shackled, imprisoned and freed.
  Burk is a former BYU football player, but even the most ardent Cougar fan has never heard of him, and former teammates don't remember him. Hi
  
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• Frank Pignanelli & LaVarr Webb: Some cheap and easy 2018 predictions

  31-12-2017 14:50
  New Year predictions are ubiquitous, easy and cheap — so count us in. We’re often wrong, but seldom in doubt.Will the Mueller investigation find Russia/Trump campaign collusion?Pignanelli: “The Russians are not our friends”—Sen. Mitch McConnellThe investigation is uncovering smoke, which will reveal some combustion. Either the evidence indicates Trump campaign operatives behaved like Keystone cops running around talking to Russians without influencing election outco
  
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• Deputies: Man in custody after assaulting woman, making threats toward law enforcement

  31-12-2017 06:19
  
  A man is in custody after assaulting a woman in her home and making threats toward law enforcement officers Saturday, officials report.
  
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• Bystander hit in gang-related gunfire

  31-12-2017 05:07
  SOUTH SALT LAKE — A 32-year-old bystander was wounded by gunfire outside a 7-Eleven Saturday during a confrontation that police say was gang-related.
  Two teenage boys, ages 16 and 17, were taken into custody in connection with the shooting. Both were booked into the Salt Lake County Juvenile Detention Center, said South Salt Lake police spokesman Gary Keller.
  The injured man was struck in the foot as he was getting into his car. He was treated at a hospital and was later released, Keller s
  
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• Letter: Ashamed of Sen. Hatch gushing about President Trump

  31-12-2017 03:55
  Our senior senator has outdone himself in bringing shame to the good people of Utah that he was elected to represent by declaring in front of the world that our cyberbully and lying president is “one heck of a leader” and "one of the best presidents (he’s) ever served under." (Apparently, he does not grasp the concept of coequal branches of government.) It is truly shameful that he is the face of Utah in Washington.Robert VayoMillcreek
  
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• Op-ed: Peace officers should not be revenue generators

  31-12-2017 02:35
  It has long been rumored that many police agencies operate under a quota system — one in which officers are required by their superiors to issue a specific number of citations. Whether this is true or not has been difficult to prove because, aside from personal testimony and leaked documents, there is little evidence confirming quotas are used by police departments.It may be that departments don’t have an official written policy on quotas, either implementing or banning them. Instead
  
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• Bystander injured in South Salt Lake shooting, police say

  31-12-2017 02:35
  
  Police are searching for multiple individuals Saturday after gunfire erupted at a 7-Eleven parking lot and injured an apparent bystander.
  
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• Dying Utah teen fulfills a final wish, hopes to leave family with recordings of his voice

  31-12-2017 02:14
  MURRAY — Thirteen-year-old Cade Allen has a couple weeks to live, but that was months ago.
  "He's a fighter," said his father, Jared Allen, adding that his son — the only boy in a set of quadruplet siblings — has been on hospice for about two months. "He doesn't give up for anything."
  And while he moved more slowly than some teens his age, Cade exuded some excitement from his struggling and frail little body Saturday as he picked out a dozen customized teddy bears for his family
  
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• Trump's monumental decision tops Beehive State's biggest stories of 2017

  31-12-2017 02:13
  SALT LAKE CITY — With topics spanning presidential proclamations and local politics, to sweeping action on the homeless crisis and a bubbling feud between the state's flagship university and a leading philanthropist, 2017 brought nationwide attention to the Beehive State in a year that news junkies won't soon forget.
  News directors at the Deseret News voted on the top 10 news stories of the year, and this is what they decided:
  1. Monumental change
  State and local politicians hoped it would
  
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• Search for plane overdue from Ogden airport to resume Sunday

  31-12-2017 02:10
  BRIGHAM CITY — The search for a small plane reported overdue on Friday night from Ogden-Hinckley Airport will resume Sunday morning. The plane, carrying two men in their 70s, was expected to return Friday afternoon following a brief sightseeing trip to northern Utah.
  The red and white Cessna 172, carrying pilot Denny Mansell, 71, and passenger Peter Ellis, 74, took off from the Ogden airport about 3:30 p.m. Friday with plans to fly the Promontory Point area then return to the airport about
  
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• Lawmakers take aim at significant water law reform

  31-12-2017 01:49
  SALT LAKE CITY — Two legislative proposals seek to upend current water law and policy by demanding greater accountability for public water systems and reigning in their regulatory authority over watersheds.
  Bills by Reps. Kim Coleman, R-West Jordan, and Mike Noel, R-Kanab, take direct aim at Salt Lake City, in particular, and other cities of the first class that provide water outside their municipal boundaries and control activities in their watersheds.
  Coleman's HB124 requires cities or s
  
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• Search underway for missing aircraft in Box Elder County

  31-12-2017 01:18
  
  A search and rescue operation is underway Saturday after two men who flew an aircraft out of Ogden-Hinkley Airport Friday afternoon but never made it back as scheduled, officials report.
  
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