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• 4 days with the 2018 Volvo V60 Cross Country T5 AWD

  30-01-2018 23:59
  
  Volvo continues its pattern of luxury and technology, combined with a sporty new exterior.
  
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• Police: Draper teen stabbed by stepfather in early morning domestic dispute

  30-01-2018 22:57
  
  A report of a burglar in a Draper home was actually a domestic violence incident in which police say a man stabbed his 15-year-old stepson.
  
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• Trial ordered for man accused of kidnapping, robbing phone buyer

  30-01-2018 22:35
  LAYTON — A Kaysville man accused of kidnapping and attempting to rob another man under the guise of selling a cellphone, eventually leading to a SWAT standoff, has been ordered to stand trial.Mitchell Whitter Tarbox, 29, of Kaysville, is charged in 2nd District Court with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery, first-degree felonies, in addition to theft by receiving stolen property, a second-degree felony; and possession of a firearm by a restricted person, a third-degree felony.Tar
  
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• 5 Utah YouTubers with millions of views

  30-01-2018 22:33
  
  These five local YouTube channels have more than 3 billion combined video views.
  
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• Prison ordered for man who hid cameras in LDS meetinghouse bathrooms

  30-01-2018 22:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Magna man was sentenced to prison Monday for hiding cameras in bathrooms at LDS meetinghouses and in the homes of his relatives.James Steven Larsen, 40, was ordered to serve concurrent terms of up to five years in prison for three counts of voyeurism involving a minor victim, a third-degree felony.Larsen pleaded guilty to the charges last month as part of a deal with prosecutors. In exchange, 13 additional charges were dismissed of class A misdemeanor voyeurism involving
  
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• ‘Can I kiss you?’: BYU devotional on sexual assault advocates explicit consent

  30-01-2018 22:01
  
  As the hero sweeps the struggling heroine into his arms, he plants a kiss on her until she eventually melts in the heat of the moment. While exciting, this scene is a romanticized storyline, said BYU professor Benjamin Ogles during Tuesday's devotional.
  
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• District offers rebates on toilets, smart irrigation controllers

  30-01-2018 21:22
  LAYTON — The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District is offering rebates to residents who install new toilets or smart irrigation controllers.Residents who upgrade to a newer, more efficient toilet can receive a $75 rebate. The rebate is only available after the new toilet has been purchased and installed. Photo documentation is required.Residents who upgrade their old controller with an EPA Water Sense-approved device can qualify for a rebate of up to $150. The rebates will be available Ma
  
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• George J. Ferguson, former Deseret News sports managing editor, died at 94

  30-01-2018 21:21
  SALT LAKE CITY — Veteran journalist George J. Ferguson, who spent the majority of his 30-year career at the Deseret News managing the sports department, died Friday, Jan. 26, of causes incident to age. He was 94.A 1941 graduate of Salt Lake City's Granite High School, where he excelled on the football and track teams, Ferguson enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Europe during World War II, mustering out at war's end with the rank of staff sergeant.He returned to Salt Lake to finish his
  
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• U. museum, library receive grant for West studies

  30-01-2018 21:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — The J. Willard Marriott Library and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to provide partial funding for a project that will establish the U. as a resource hub for artists and scholars studying the West.As leaders in the region for scholarly research, exhibition design and collections care, the library and museum curate extensive — but separate — holdings related to environ
  
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• Pleasant Grove man sets new state record with 30-inch fish

  30-01-2018 21:01
  
  A Pleasant Grove man caught a once-in-a-lifetime fish that was named the new catch-and-release record on Jan. 24.
  
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• Bountiful sponsoring earthquake seminar March 27

  30-01-2018 20:58
  BOUNTIFUL — The Bountiful City Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Council will sponsor an earthquake preparedness seminar at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, at South Davis Junior High School, 298 W. 2600 South.The seminar will feature presentations by Bob Carey, earthquake program manager for the Utah Division of Emergency Management, and Maralin Hoff, also known as "Utah's Earthquake Lady."Carey will discuss fault maps; structural integrity of homes and other buildings; and aftershocks, haz
  
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• Utah Senate passes bill to remove mentally unfit elected officials

  30-01-2018 20:45
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow the removal of mentally incapacitated elected officials in certain counties.SB38, which rose out of the controversy surrounding former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott, who remained in office while he appeared to suffer mental health issues, passed with a 27-1 vote. It now goes to the House.The bill's sponsor, Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, urged senators to support the bill while acknowledging that it'
  
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• Sandy man abandoned disabled son on freeway, charges say

  30-01-2018 20:32
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Sandy man was charged Tuesday with abandoning his disabled adult son on the side of a busy freeway.Steven Warner Cuff, 66, is charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult, a second-degree felony.On Dec. 6, Cuff "intentionally" dropped off his 36-year-old son along the side of I-215 "and left him there," according to charging documents. The son has a mental capacity of a 2-year-old, according to Cuff.Doctors also confirmed the son is "classifi
  
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• SLC skier dies after striking tree in Park City

  30-01-2018 20:18
  
  A 20-year-old Salt Lake City man died after striking a tree while skiing Monday, authorities said.
  
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• 3 charged in Salt Lake robbery spree

  30-01-2018 20:13
  SALT LAKE CITY — Three people who police say were drinking and decided to randomly rob people at gunpoint one night downtown now face felony charges.Kira Smith, 18, of South Salt Lake, David Angel Montoya, 20, of Woods Cross, and Cameron Preston Dallas, 18, of Salt Lake City, each were charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with four counts of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony.On Jan. 24, the trio is accused of approaching four separate people and robbing them at gunpoint, according
  
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• Skier dies after hitting tree at Park City resort

  30-01-2018 20:11
  PARK CITY — A 20-year-old skier was killed Monday when he hit a tree on an advanced trail.The Salt Lake man, whose name was not released, was skiing about 1:45 p.m. at Park City Mountain Resort on the Canyons Village base side of the mountain when the incident occurred, according to the Summit County Sheriff's Office.Dispatchers received multiple 911 calls about the same time, indicating that several people saw the downed skier, said Summit County Sheriff's Lt. Andrew Wright. It was not im
  
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• Mormon doctrine repudiates sexual assault, requires consent, dean says at BYU devotional

  30-01-2018 20:10
  PROVO — The Mormon doctrine of agency requires consent for all sexual contact, and sexual assault victims are never to blame since a perpetrator deprived them of their agency, BYU's dean of Family, Home and Social Sciences said Tuesday during a campus devotional."The very definition of sexual assault underscores the idea that the perpetrator is denying the agency of the victim," Ben Ogles said."If the other person does not agree to, or does not willingly and freely agree to, touching, kiss
  
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• President Nelson was 'true pioneer' of heart surgery, colleagues say

  30-01-2018 19:47
  SALT LAKE CITY — Long before President Russell M. Nelson became a household name among Latter-day Saints across the world as one of 15 men considered a "prophet, seer and revelator" in the faith, he was a renowned medical pioneer in the field of heart surgery.And long before that, he was a dedicated father who along with his first wife, Dantzel White Nelson, was no stranger to sacrifice in their early life together, says his biographer, Elder Spencer J. Condie, an emeritus Seventy in the c
  
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• Washington City man faces animal cruelty charges

  30-01-2018 19:33
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Washington City man charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty was due in court Tuesday.Russell Hardy Smith, 50, was charged Jan. 5 in Washington Justice Court with cruelty to animals, a class C misdemeanor, and having too many dogs, an infraction.Smith, who was charged with similar crimes in 2016, had been warned since October about having too many hound dogs living in an unsanitary kennel on his property, according to a search warrant unsealed Tuesday in 5th District Cour
  
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• S.L. airport reports record passenger growth in 2017

  30-01-2018 19:07
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake City International Airport reported record passenger growth from January through December 2017. Passenger counts totaled just under 24.2 million, which is an increase of 4.5 percent.This is the first time the airport has logged more than 24 million passengers within a 12-month period.During the 12 months, domestic passengers totaled 23.2 million — an increase of nearly 4 percent — while international passengers totaled 913,628 — an increase
  
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• Police: Report of intruder was actually domestic violence incident

  30-01-2018 18:28
  DRAPER — A report of a burglar in a Draper home was actually a domestic violence incident, according to police.Officers were initially called to a "burglary in progress" at a home near 1300 East and Pioneer Road about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, Draper Police Sgt. Chad Carpenter said.Police were told a stepfather and his 15-year-old stepson encountered a man dressed in all black breaking into the home and they confronted him, Carpenter said, and the intruder then stabbed the 15-year-old in the neck
  
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• Police: Man allegedly stabs stepson in Draper home

  30-01-2018 18:28
  DRAPER — A Draper man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his 15-year-old stepson.Richard Wayne Hurley, 38, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of child abuse, assault and three counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child.Officers were initially called to a "burglary in progress" about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at a home near 1300 East and Pioneer Road, Draper Police Sgt. Chad Carpenter said.Police were told Hurley and his 15-year-old stepson confronted a
  
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• 5 arrested, heroin, cocaine seized in ongoing Operation Rio Grande

  30-01-2018 18:17
  SALT LAKE CITY — Police arrested five people and seized more than 100 balloons filled with heroin as part of the ongoing Operation Rio Grande enforcement efforts.From Jan. 16-18, undercover officers from the Department of Public Safety's State Bureau of Investigation went around the Salt Lake Valley making drug buys, according to spokeswoman Marissa Cote. The operation resulted in the recovery of more than 100 heroin balloons and 50 balloons filled with crack cocaine, she said.Five people
  
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• Police: Teen stabbed in domestic dispute at Draper home

  30-01-2018 18:12
  
  Police now say a stabbing at a Draper home did not involve a home burglary but a domestic violence situation.
  
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• Utah gymnast, former patient of Nassar, says Utah gymnastics stands behind athletes

  30-01-2018 18:07
  
  As the scandal stole gymnastics’ spotlight, Utah co-head coaches Megan Marsden and Tom Farden worked with their team, making sure each gymnast felt supported on how to handle the publicity.
  
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• In wake of Nassar scandal, Utah gymnastics provides support for team, survivors

  30-01-2018 18:07
  
  As the scandal stole gymnastics’ spotlight, Utah co-head coaches Megan Marsden and Tom Farden worked with their team, making sure each gymnast felt supported on how to handle the publicity.
  
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• Lawmakers talk penalty for killing police K-9, ambulance drivers, security guards

  30-01-2018 18:02
  
  Utah lawmakers Monday discussed penalties for killing police dogs, ambulance drivers or security guards, among other things.
  
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• Police: Teen stabbed when father, son confront intruder in Draper home

  30-01-2018 16:53
  DRAPER — Police are investigating after they say a father and son confronted a burglar who then stabbed the teen.Police were called to a "burglary in progress" at a home near 1300 East and Pioneer Road about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, Draper Police Sgt. Chad Cooper said.The father told police he and his son encountered a man breaking into the home and confronted him, Cooper said. The intruder then stabbed the 15-year-old in the neck and shoulder, he said.No information on the 15-year-old's conditi
  
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• Police respond to incident in Draper neighborhood

  30-01-2018 15:24
  
  Police are responding to an incident at a home in Draper Tuesday morning.
  
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• Two-thirds of Salt Lake City roads in 'poor' condition, study shows

  30-01-2018 14:50
  
  A new study shows nearly two-thirds of Salt Lake City's roads are in poor shape, or worse. The bigger problem: there's no money to fix them.
  
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• Day 9: Happening on the Hill

  30-01-2018 14:43
  • Rep. Dixon Pitcher, R-Ogden, is sponsoring a bill that would prohibit a person from using a handheld wireless communication device while operating a moving motor vehicle in a school zone unless the person is using hands-free technology. The House Transportation Committee is scheduled to debate HB220 at 2 p.m.• A bill from Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, would make it a class B misdemeanor to fail to provide assistance in the event of a crime or another emergency. King is scheduled
  
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• South Jordan neighbors need help identifying suspicious vehicle, occupants

  30-01-2018 06:43
  
  Residents of a South Jordan neighborhood are asking for help to identify a white sedan that appears to be casing mailboxes along their street
  
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• 'It’s exciting:' Tourism officials thrilled for Jazz's red rock-themed jerseys, court

  30-01-2018 06:19
  
  The Utah Jazz will debut a completely different uniform concept Tuesday, and officials at the Utah Office of Tourism are fans already.
  
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• Escaped cat back in zoo enclosure

  30-01-2018 06:01
  
  Hogle Zoo employees lured an escaped Pallas' cat back to his enclosure Sunday morning.
  
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• Photos: New Jazz court, jerseys set for debut

  30-01-2018 05:32
  The new Utah Jazz city-edition basketball court was unveiled at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday. Both the new Jazz jersey, with the cascading color bands from bright gold to deep burgundy that represent the red rocks and canyon lands of southern Utah, and the complementary court will be used for the first time on Tuesday in the game against Golden State.See the world through the eyes of award-winning photojournalists. Click through the gallery above to view the unique images
  
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• 2 men charged with sparking Bountiful grass fire in August

  30-01-2018 05:22
  BOUNTIFUL — Two Utah men have been charged in federal court with sparking and failing to control a fire on national forest land that torched 75 acres in August.Jayson Ross Orvis, 48, and James Troy Golden, 41, were charged in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City on Jan. 23.Orvis, of Bountiful, also faces four counts of altering roads or structures on forest land without permit for allegedly buidling a shooting pavilion, 50-foot target shooting rail, outfitter tent and utility vehicle road
  
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• Insurers push back on bill requiring coverage of psychiatrists' telehealth consultations

  30-01-2018 04:58
  SALT LAKE CITY — Following fervent debate Monday over a bill requiring insurers to provide coverage for mental health consultations between a patient's primary care physician and a psychiatrist, a vote on whether to recommend the measure was delayed by the request of its sponsor.HB139 would oblige the Medicaid program and private insurers to provide reimbursement for the service, which bill sponsor Rep. Steve Eliason, R-Sandy, said is aimed at getting patients faster and more extensive acc
  
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• Photos: Olympic-like fire for the fine arts

  30-01-2018 04:33
  Skyline High School senior Susannah Thankful Mecham draws a picture of her friend and classmate Bela Woller during the Art Olympics at Granger High School in West Valley City on Monday. Eighty-six students from nine high schools in the Granite School District took part in the competition. Brooke Porter, director of communications for the Granite Education Foundation, said the purpose of the Art Olympics is to give students a chance to celebrate their talents and art. "I think the biggest thing i
  
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• 'Radical possibility' enthusiast Ben Nemtin to give U. commencement address

  30-01-2018 03:34
  
  The MTV star and New York Times best-selling author has a question for students: "What do you want to do before you die?"
  
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• Photos: Jazz players give students an assist with math

  30-01-2018 03:15
  Grant Ure cheers during a game of NBA Math Hoops at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday. The fast-paced board game, which teaches students fundamental math skills through basketball stats of their favorite Jazz and NBA players, featured Jazz forwards Jonas Jerebko and Georges Niang. The Jazz, with support from Utah Valley University and Larry H. Miller Charities, implemented the program at the start of the season in 68 schools and nonprofits along the Wasatch Front, teaching
  
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• Removing barriers: Utah puts new focus on students with disabilities

  30-01-2018 03:08
  SOUTH SALT LAKE — On this particular day, James Rigby's attention is trained on making a batch of sugar cookies.Beyond scooping precise amounts of dough on baking sheet so that the cookies bake in a uniform size and thickness, Rigby is also thinking of his career aspirations of working in a commercial bakery."I want to get a job after Kearns High — at a Harmons (Grocery)," said Rigby, 17, who is enrolled in a vocational training program at Granite School District's Hilda B Jones Cent
  
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• First charges filed against Herriman shooting suspect; aunt charged with hiding him

  30-01-2018 02:31
  
  An Ivins woman was charged Monday with helping a Herriman shooting suspect stay on the run for five days. The shooting suspect is facing charges for crimes that occurred before the Jan. 20 shootings.
  
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• Ceremony honors those lost in Bear River Massacre

  30-01-2018 02:26
  PRESTON, Idaho — The Northwestern band of the Shoshone Nation now owns a major piece of the land where hundreds of their own were massacred. That purchase brought some added emotion to a remembrance ceremony Monday for the Bear River Massacre."There are lessons that we can learn from that tragedy and lessons that need to be learned," said Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox. "This is a story that needs to be told."In response to friction between American Indians and white travelers, Col. Patrick Edw
  
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• Aunt of Herriman shooting suspect charged with hiding him

  30-01-2018 02:13
  SALT LAKE CITY — An Ivins woman was charged Monday with helping a Herriman shooting suspect stay on the run for five days.Keria Jessica Hartley-Johnson, 35 — the aunt of Justin Llewelyn — is charged in 3rd District Court with obstructing justice, a second-degree felony; and retaliation against a witness or informant, a third-degree felony.A $100,000 warrant was issued for her arrest and she was picked up Monday by police in Ivins, Washington County.Llewelyn, 33, is currently in
  
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• Man hospitalized after being shot in the face in Murray

  30-01-2018 01:33
  MURRAY — A man was hospitalized in critical condition Monday after being shot in the face, police say.The incident happened about 1:45 p.m. Monday in a Murray apartment at 154 W. 4350 South. Two men were in the apartment when one shot the other, said Murray police detective Kenny Bass.Information about why the men were there, whether either of them lived there, how they knew each other or what they were arguing about wasn't immediately known.After the shooting, the gunman tried to get away
  
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• Sandy man accused of shooting at fleeing man in 2014 pleads guilty to reduced charge

  30-01-2018 01:32
  WEST JORDAN — A Sandy man who faced a hung jury on allegations he tried to kill a man fleeing from his home pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced charge.Larry Kent Graff, 55, pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault, a third-degree felony, down from a charge of attempted murder, a first-degree felony.Prosecutors had initially charged Graff with trying to kill Michael Grimsley, who had been in Graff's home with his girlfriend, 26-year-old Candice Melo, on Dec. 18, 2014. A jury in September
  
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• Payson man charged with sparking neighborhood shootout

  30-01-2018 01:25
  PAYSON — Criminal charges were filed Monday against a man accused of sparking a shootout in a Payson neighborhood.Travis Matthew Frkovich, 38, of Payson, is charged in 4th District Court with two counts of attempted aggravated murder, a first-degree felony; and two counts of aggravated assault, a third-degree felony.On Jan. 23, Frkovich was walking along a residential street near 650 West and 500 South in Payson, when a 31-year-old man who had just left his house began backing up his truck
  
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• Bill would make killing a police dog a second-degree felony in Utah

  30-01-2018 01:23
  SALT LAKE CITY — Killing a police service dog would become a second-degree felony in Utah under a bill supported by a Senate committee Monday.Senate Minority Caucus Manager Jani Iwamoto, D-Holladay, introduced SB57 by sharing the stories of Aldo and Dingo, two Unified police dogs killed in the line of duty in 2016 and 2017, respectively.Iwamoto's bill raises the penalty for killing a police service dog from a third-degree felony to a second-degree felony. It also changes the language in st
  
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• First of several anticipated charges filed against Herriman man

  30-01-2018 01:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — The man who sparked a five-day manhunt after allegedly shooting a homeowner and firing at two police officers is facing charges for crimes that occurred before the Jan. 20 shootings.In what is expected to be the first of several cases filed against him, Justin G. Llewelyn, 33, of Herriman was charged Monday in 3rd District Court with theft by receiving stolen property, a second-degree felony; drug possession, a third-degree felony; possession of drug paraphernalia, a class
  
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• Watch this Jeep defy 'the laws of gravity' in southern Utah by driving up near vertical cliff

  30-01-2018 00:20
  The Daily Mail recently featured a video of a 2006 Jeep climbing a rock wall at a near vertical angle in southern Utah.The video, which you can watch below, shows a 4x4 Jeep that defies "the laws of gravity" as it climbs up a rock wall at Sand Hollow State Park in Utah."The vehicle is driven straight up and somehow manages to get all the way to the top and safely over the edge," according to the Daily Mail.Chuck Converse, who drove up the wall on Jan. 20, said his driving skills helped him make
  
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