Utah news

• Crews investigating object in Great Salt Lake believed to be plane

  07-01-2018 23:24
  PROMONTORY, Box Elder County — Search and rescue officials Sunday were investigating what they believe to be a plane in the Great Salt Lake.
  Divers with the Weber County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team were scheduled to search the lake and identify the object, which was found on private property near Promontory, said Box Elder County Sheriff Chief Deputy Dale Ward.
  Ward said officials Saturday evening could not positively identify the object as a plane, but it's the most significant lead
  
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• Op-ed: Bringing the national security debate beyond Washington

  07-01-2018 21:10
  Washingtonians who work on national security often pride themselves on how much they know about the world. Many of the nation’s top security experts speak foreign languages and have spent years studying and working overseas. They read international journals, maintain networks of other experts around the world and travel frequently to international conferences. But the one thing those same national security professionals aren’t particularly good at doing is connecting with Americans o
  
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• Search continues for 2 Utah teens missing on trip to Eureka

  07-01-2018 18:10
  TOOELE — The search continues for two Utah teenagers who have been missing for more than a week on a drive from Tooele to Eureka.
  Authorities say 17-year-old Brelynne "Breezy" Otteson and 18-year-old Riley Powell left Tooele on Dec. 30. The couple planned to stop in Spanish Fork before going home to Eureka, where both teens live with Powell's grandfather.
  Family members reported the two missing Tuesday to the Juab and Tooele County sheriff's offices after not hearing from them.
  Powell is k
  
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• Natalie Gochnour: President Monson leaves a living legacy for all of Utah

  07-01-2018 16:05
  The day after Thomas S. Monson died, I taped a radio program in downtown Salt Lake City. As I interacted with people at the station — both LDS and non-LDS — I noticed a divergence in their views about the LDS prophet’s passing. Understandably, they viewed President Monson’s death as a main event for participating members of the LDS faith, but not a big deal for others. I disagree.Utah is a Mormon state, but Salt Lake City is not a Mormon town. For several years now, membe
  
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• Monica Lewinsky recounts pain of scandal in message against cyberbullying

  07-01-2018 07:39
  PARK CITY — Once widely mocked and reviled for her infamous affair with a sitting president of the United States, Monica Lewinsky shared her personal insights on the experience Saturday as a message against online bullying and harassment.
  In January 1998, a 24-year-old Lewinsky found herself becoming a household name overnight as the most private details of her life, both real and imagined, spread like wildfire through the apparently unending reaches of the internet. Her name, image and re
  
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• SLC's Nathan Chen dazzles with 5 quad jumps to win US nationals

  07-01-2018 06:03
  
  Nathan Chen skated once more in a victory lap of sorts, this time to high-five fans as the newly crowned national champion.
  
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• Nathan Chen dazzles with 5 quad jumps to win US nationals

  07-01-2018 06:03
  
  Nathan Chen skated once more in a victory lap of sorts, this time to high-five fans as the newly crowned national champion.
  
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• Davis County duo calls for youth involvement among women voters

  07-01-2018 05:48
  BOUNTIFUL — They're retired, politically active, Utah transplants who've made Davis County their home.
  Spitfires in their 70s, for sure.
  Kathy Stockel, 72, has lived in 16 states, though she's called Utah — specifically North Salt Lake — home since 2007.
  Ann Johnson, 76, has been a Bountiful resident for the past nine years.
  Today, they share the title of co-president of the League of Women Voters of Davis County.
  It's an organization Stockel first got involved with back in 198
  
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• Park City's White knight feeds both bodies and souls

  07-01-2018 03:33
  PARK CITY — Nobody turned a head 26 years ago when Bill White rolled into this ski town in the two-wheel drive Buick Park Avenue his recently deceased grandmother had left to him in her will.
  No one had any inkling that here was a man who had come to feed the masses — the rich and the poor — least of all Bill, whose initial concern was figuring out how to feed himself.
  He was in his early 20s, fresh out of Cornell University's hotel school. Everything he owned was piled with hi
  
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• Officials: Unknown object in Great Salt Lake believed to be plane

  07-01-2018 02:27
  
  Officials discovered what they believe to be a plane in the Great Salt Lake Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Wet weekend storm brings some moisture to dry Utah

  07-01-2018 01:43
  SALT LAKE CITY — A wet winter storm Saturday brought a little rain and snow to Utah following a dry December.
  The National Weather service reported 0.3 inches of snow and 0.18 inches of rain at the Salt Lake City International Airport on Saturday, but the storm was expected to dry up overnight. The agency called the sleety conditions "a very rare phenomena for Utah" on Twitter and its website.
  "Sleet occurs when snowflakes only partially melt when they fall through a shallow layer of warm
  
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• Utah lawmaker seeks manslaughter charge for assisted suicide

  07-01-2018 01:18
  SALT LAKE CITY — In the wake of the shocking suicide of a 16-year-old girl in Utah County, which prosecutors say was only possible through the help and encouragement of her older friend, a Utah legislator is seeking to add assisted suicide to the state's manslaughter statute.
  Rep. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, has filed HB86, which would make it a second-degree felony in Utah to knowingly provide the means for someone to take their own life by suicide or to aid in a suicide attempt.
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• Several cars crash in freezing rain in Cache County

  07-01-2018 00:56
  WELLSVILLE, Cache County — Freezing afternoon rain ahead of a snowstorm created treacherous driving near Wellsville on Saturday.
  Ice on state Route 89 between Sardine Canyon and Logan sent at least a dozen vehicles sliding off the highway shortly after 1 p.m.
  "All I saw was a white SUV that just kind of lost control and slid right into the side of me. I spun and then I flipped a few times," said Lindsay Short, who was uninjured in the crash.
  Utah Highway Patrol trooper Lawrence Hopper said
  
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• Photos: Gamin' with grandma at the 2018 Salt Lake Home Show

  07-01-2018 00:28
  Taisley Kebschull, left, and grandmother Penny Warner play video games at the Xfinity booth at the Salt Lake Home Show at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Saturday. The 2018 Salt Lake Home Show, which continues through Sunday, this year welcomed Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri of HGTV's "Kitchen Cousins" and Aubrey and Bristol Marunde of HGTV's "Flip or Flop Vegas."
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