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• About Utah: ‘The body can't go where the mind hasn't already been’

  11-03-2018 23:52
  PARK CITY – Corey Allinson is one of the good guys. He doesn't want to go negative. He doesn't want to see the glass half empty.But he's also a realist. As a sergeant in the Park City Police Department, he looks around at the town's schools and concert venues and convention centers and businesses and says, "Hopefully it will never happen, but we have to be of the mindset that it's coming and we will be on our game when it does.""It" is a mass shooting."If you haven't already put your mind
  
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• Unusual Utah ski season could lead to higher lift ticket prices

  11-03-2018 23:42
  SALT LAKE CITY — While recent late winter snowstorms have been a boon to Utah's ski resorts, the lack of snow earlier this season, unseasonably warm temperatures and a resulting lack of customers could force Wasatch Front snow resorts to raise lift ticket prices for next year more than the usual annual price hikes."At this moment, for this season, we've had fewer customers than we normally do during a good snow year. I would guess all the resorts in Utah were down a little bit. When the sk
  
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• Urban Flea Market offers eclectic, unique and vintage goods

  11-03-2018 23:32
  Kandra Smith shows her Day of the Dead masks at the Urban Flea Market, which is billed as Utah's largest, monthly vintage flea market, at The Gateway in Salt Lake City on Sunday. The market, now in its seventh year, featured 80-plus vendors offering eclectic, unique and antique finds, as well as local food trucks selling goodies. The Urban Flea Market is held one Sunday of each month from May through October and on the second Sunday of each month November through April. Admission to the market i
  
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• Police: St. George mother breastfeeds while on heroin, 3-day-old baby stops breathing

  11-03-2018 22:34
  
  The mother of a 3-day-old baby has been arrested after allegedly breast feeding her baby while on heroin.
  
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• Orbital ATK among finalists for new Air Force rocket system

  11-03-2018 21:59
  PROMONTORY, Box Elder County — Orbital ATK is vying to build the latest generation of rockets for the U.S. Air Force.The Virginia-based company, with operations in Box Elder County, is working on the development of what is being called the Next Generation Launch system — a new American lineup of intermediate- and large-class rockets capable of launching the full range of national security missions required by the Air Force, as well as science and commercial payloads for other custome
  
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• New York art foundation acquires art located in Utah desert

  11-03-2018 20:08
  
  A New York art foundation says it has acquired ownership of a concrete art installation located in Utah's Great Basin Desert.
  
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• Water restored for Clinton residents after water main break

  11-03-2018 16:40
  
  A water main break is affecting water service in Clinton on Sunday morning, police said.
  
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• 16-year-old bicyclist in critical condition after being struck by a car

  11-03-2018 04:21
  EAGLE MOUNTAIN — A 16-year-old was transported to Primary Children's Hospital in critical condition after being struck by a car while riding a bicycle Saturday.The accident occurred when the victim and his friend tried to cross Pony Express Parkway on their BMX bikes about 5 p.m., said Eagle Mountain Police Sgt. Tyler Collet.The victim was then airlifted to the hospital.His friend didn't sustain any injuries, Collet said.The area was closed to traffic for two hours after the accident."Our
  
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• 70-year-old man dies in Park City ski accident

  11-03-2018 03:32
  PARK CITY — A 70-year-old man died from injuries when he hit a pole and fell on a ski race course at Deer Valley Resort in Park City Friday.On Saturday evening, a friend of the victim identified him as Ken Portz and wrote of her sadness on hearing of her friend's death."He was one of the founders of our ski trip 32 years ago and was not only the best skier amongst us but the kindest and most thoughtful man amongst us," Michele Perrin Gustafson wrote in a Facebook post.Portz, from Colorado,
  
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• 5 medicinal cannabis bills pass, but advocates and lawmakers still at odds

  11-03-2018 03:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — The question of medicinal cannabis first became visible to Melissa Butler through her work as a hospice nurse, when she discovered it had been making a difference in a pair of her patients.But when a bill giving terminally ill patients access to cannabis for medicinal use passed the state Legislature this year, Butler didn't rejoice."I was actually disappointed that it passed, not because I don't want people to have access, but because I think (it) doesn't give people anyw
  
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• Police: Man arrested after teenage girl caught him filming her in the shower

  11-03-2018 02:30
  LEHI — A 43-year-old man was arrested Friday after a teenage girl caught him filming her in the shower, police say.Officers responded to the girl's home about 2 p.m. and apprehended Francisco Javier Diaz-Gamez, of Lehi, according to Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon.When the teenager noticed Diaz-Gamez holding a cellphone over her shower door, she took the phone from him and saw the recording he'd made of her in the shower, Cannon said.The suspect then exited her residence, but pol
  
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• 'Don't give up': Program shows students with disabilities career options for the future

  11-03-2018 02:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — For young people with disabilities, dreaming of a professional career can seem like a far-flung, unattainable goal. But a program developed through the Utah Department of Workforce Services is aimed at making those fanciful ideas into real possibilities.When Grantsville High School junior Zane Rhyne, 17, was younger, he dreamed of being an airline pilot. However, about four years ago, his world changed when he was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder that was causing
  
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• Annual anti-pornography conference offers hope, tools for parents, teens

  11-03-2018 01:42
  SALT LAKE CITY — When Dina Alexander first jumped into the anti-pornography movement, the Texas mother of three was motivated by fear — stay away from that website, don't download that app, no phone until adulthood.But in the last few years, even as the culture has degraded, she's found herself more optimistic, buoyed by the hope that deliberate, rather than just defensive parents can raise resilient, porn-shunning, tech-savvy kids."Deliberate parents … know who they are," she
  
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• What's next for Medicaid? Ballot campaign pushes on despite passage of large-scale expansion bill

  11-03-2018 01:28
  SALT LAKE CITY — The most extensive form of Medicaid expansion to be approved by state lawmakers under the Affordable Care Act cleared its final hurdle in the Legislature by passing the Senate on the final night of the session.But exactly what the future holds for the federal program's role in Utah remains to be seen.The expansion requested by HB472 would expand Medicaid coverage to an additional 65,000 to 70,000 Utahns if approved by the federal government, its sponsors estimate, but some
  
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• Legislature passes 'extremely critical' funding for homeless shelter operations, police

  11-03-2018 01:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — In a third year of prioritizing homelessness initiatives, the Utah Legislature passed a package of bills to help fund the three new homeless resource centers that are set to break ground this spring.Both bills — one to fund the yearly operations of the new shelters, and the other to pay for police and fire impacts to host cities — created controversy at first because they would collect local sales tax dollars from cities not hosting shelters, but versions that
  
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• Flexing their muscles Utah lawmakers expand the power of the Legislature

  11-03-2018 01:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers took steps to flex their muscles and expand the power of the Legislature on several fronts during their recently concluded general session, and at least one issue could lead to another showdown with Gov. Gary Herbert.Republicans, who own supermajorities in the House and Senate, drove legislation to allow the Legislature to intervene in court cases and to call themselves into special session in an emergency. They pushed bills exerting more direct influence ov
  
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• Utah tech emerges from 2018 Legislature a winner

  11-03-2018 01:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Legislature, version 2018, came down mostly supportive of a handful of new legislative efforts aimed at keeping the state's booming tech and innovation economy prospering.Perhaps most significant was the passage of SB104, a bill sponsored by Sen. Ann Milner, R-Ogden. The initiative, with $2.5 million in funding, will incentivize students to pursue education paths in one of five yet-to-be-determined but likely tech-centric categories, according to Milner.After grad
  
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