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• WSU, Ogden team up to promote civility with weeklong challenge

  22-03-2018 23:50
  OGDEN — Weber State University, city officials and local businesses are teaming up to engage the community in civility-based behavior with a weeklong Civility Quest Challenge.The challenge will kick off at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 6, at WSU's Stewart Bell Tower, with another event at 6 p.m. in conjunction with the First Friday Art Stroll on Ogden's Historic 25th Street.Participants in the challenge can collect and complete Civility Quest Challenge cards from local businesses around Ogde
  
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• 2 convicted in gambling enterprise highlight Utah's crackdown on gambling

  22-03-2018 23:43
  
  Two Utah men were convicted of running a gambling enterprise in state convenience stores and other locations across the state. It's an example of the state's crackdown on gambling.
  
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• Charges filed in wrong-color gang killing case

  22-03-2018 23:31
  SOUTH SALT LAKE — A man accused in the shooting death of a 24-year-old South Salt Lake man at an early morning party — allegedly for wearing the wrong colors to a party — has been charged with aggravated murder.Isaiah Marquez Aligo Lucas, 20, of West Valley City, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with the first-degree felony. He was also charged with attempted homicide, a first-degree felony; possession of a firearm by a restricted person, a second-degree felony; and o
  
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• United Utah Party caucuses exceed expectations with 900 attendees

  22-03-2018 23:30
  
  The turnout at Tuesday’s caucuses for Utah’s newest political party vastly exceeded expectations, party leaders said.
  
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• Herbert signs bill that could raise marriage license fees

  22-03-2018 23:12
  
  Some couples tying the knot in Utah will have to pay more for their marriage license later this year unless they undergo counseling, thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Gary Herbert.
  
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• School safety meeting set for April 12 in South Jordan

  22-03-2018 23:08
  SOUTH JORDAN — The Jordan School District Board of Education is inviting parents to hear from a panel of experts on school safety.The meeting will take place on Thursday, April 12, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at South Jordan Middle School, 10245 S. 2700 West.During the meeting parents will hear from school administrators, city officials and first responders.
  
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• 'Little Rock Nine' member shares civil rights experiences with Utah students

  22-03-2018 22:54
  KAYSVILLE — Nearly 61 years ago, nine teenagers arrived for their first day of school only to be greeted by an angry mob and the Arkansas National Guard, sent by the state's governor to bar the teenagers' entry into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.The reason? The color of their skin."I remember ... seeing the angry faces screaming, spitting, cursing, banging on the car as they held us," said Ernest Green, the first black person to graduate from what had been an all-white schoo
  
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• DWR proposes permit changes for 2018 big game hunts

  22-03-2018 22:46
  SALT LAKE CITY — Biologists with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are recommending permit increases for buck deer, buck pronghorn, bull moose and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep during the 2018 hunts.Hunters can see all of the biologists' recommendations at wildlife.utah.gov. After reviewing the ideas, interested parties can let their Regional Advisory Council members know their thoughts by attending an upcoming meeting or sending them an email.The comments will then be shared with mem
  
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• Pregnant elk poached in Zion National Park, authorities say

  22-03-2018 22:36
  
  Authorities are seeking information about the recent poaching of a pregnant cow elk within Zion National Park.
  
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• Photos: Just imagine! Dragons Lights illuminates the Utah State Fairpark

  22-03-2018 22:26
  Visitors walk past an illuminated dragon during Dragon Lights at the Utah State Fairpark on Wednesday. The show, which runs nightly through May 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., features 39 larger-than-life illuminated displays crafted by Chinese artisans. The artisans hail from Zigong, Sichuan, China's cultural capital for the ancient art of lantern-making. In addition to lanterns, nightly performances and handicrafts, the event will also offer a variety of Chinese and traditional fair food, as w
  
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• Salt Lake man charged in gang-related killing of 16-year-old

  22-03-2018 22:24
  SOUTH SALT LAKE — It only took 1 minute and 17 seconds for a random confrontation between two people who had never met each other to end in a murder, police say.Joshua Jaeshawn Park, 20, of Salt Lake City, was charged in 3rd District Court Thursday with murder, a first-degree felony, for the shooting death of rival gang member Alan Hernandez Lopez, 16, on a sidewalk outside of the teen's school just moments after he left the building.On Feb. 13, Lopez had just left the Granite Step School,
  
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• Herbert pushes GOP to drop fight against signature gathering

  22-03-2018 22:18
  SALT LAKE CITY — Days after a federal appeals court upheld Utah's controversial election law allowing candidates to gather signatures to get on the primary ballot, Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday encouraged the Utah Republican Party to drop the fight."We've tried and tried and tried, and again SB54 has been upheld as constitutional," the governor said at his monthly KUED news conference. "I think we see the writing on the wall."The Utah GOP sued the state over the 2014 law known as SB54, whi
  
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• Lyft offers free rides Saturday for 'March for Our Lives' participants

  22-03-2018 22:13
  SALT LAKE CITY — Rideshare service Lyft is offering $1.5 million in free rides to participants in "March for Our Lives" events in 50 cities this weekend, including four events scheduled in Utah.Salt Lake City, Park City, Cedar City and St. George are among the locations around the country hosting rallies on Saturday to coincide with a march on Washington, D.C.The D.C. event was planned by survivors of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, i
  
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• Police apprehend person wanted in connection with 27 burglaries in Sugar House, Liberty Wells

  22-03-2018 22:11
  
  Police apprehended a person in connection with 27 burglaries in 20 days in the Sugar House and Liberty Wells area Thursday.
  
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• Hiker hoisted from slot canyon: 'It was a relief!'

  22-03-2018 21:34
  SALT LAKE CITY — A 26-year-old hiker from Nephi who broke his leg in an Emery County slot canyon Tuesday was rescued after his father called authorities.Crews found Brigham Holladay, 26, of Nephi, roughly 2 miles from the trailhead of the Ding and Dang Slot Canyons near Green River in the early hours of Wednesday, and hoisted him from the canyon using a helicopter and cable. An ambulance took him to Castleview Hospital in Price."It was a relief!" he said of the moment when the search teams
  
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• Olympus Junior High wrestling team looks to clinch 20th consecutive district title

  22-03-2018 20:32
  
  Led by coach Robert Brough, Olympus Junior High's 22 wrestlers will compete on Saturday for the Granite School District title.
  
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• Two West Valley schools briefly ‘shelter in place’ during police incident

  22-03-2018 19:01
  WEST VALLEY CITY — Two schools were briefly instructed to "shelter in place" due to a nearby police incident Thursday.The Granite School District said Granger High School and West Lake Junior High School, both in the area of 3700 South and 3600 West, were ordered to shelter in place about 11:15 a.m. due to a police incident in a neighboring area.The shelter in place order was lifted about a half-hour later."School is proceeding as normal," the school district said on Twitter. "We appreciat
  
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• Wife of man stabbed at Salt Lake City bar says attack was unprovoked

  22-03-2018 18:29
  SALT LAKE CITY — The wife of a man injured in a stabbing at a popular downtown bar Tuesday says the attack was unprovoked.Lilia Ochoa said her husband, Fernando, was simply doing his job Tuesday night as a dishwasher at Whiskey Street, 323 S. State, when another dishwasher attacked."An 8-inch knife went to the middle of his kidney and the lung," Ochoa said. "The (surveillance) video catches where (the other dishwasher) picks up the knife and tries to stab him again."Workers at the bar ulti
  
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• The fastest-growing metro area is in Utah, new report says

  22-03-2018 18:00
  St. George is officially the country's fastest-growing metro area, according to a USA Today report on U.S. Census Bureau data.Based on the new data, about 165,662 people lived in St. George during 2017, which is a 4 percent increase from the previous year.Pam Perlich, director of demographic research at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, told USA Today that St. George saw a spike in growth in part because of Las Vegas."Certainly it's tied to the growth dynamic of the
  
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• Man arrested in connection with infant's death

  22-03-2018 17:52
  
  Provo police arrested a man in connection with the death of his girlfriend's 4-month-old baby.
  
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• Provo man arrested in death of his girlfriend's baby

  22-03-2018 17:41
  PROVO — Police have arrested a Provo man and say he is responsible for the death of his girlfriend's 4-month-old daughter.Cameron Chad Willingham, 23, was booked into the Utah County Jail Wednesday for investigation of child abuse homicide.About 7:30 p.m. Monday, emergency crews were called on a report of a baby not breathing. "When patrol officers arrived, they found an unresponsive infant with serious injuries," according to a statement from Provo police.Nevaeh King was taken by medical
  
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• Is Utah the most innovative state?

  22-03-2018 16:00
  A new WalletHub report ranked Utah as the eighth most innovative state in the country.Utah ranked above Delaware and Oregon within the top 10.Massachusetts topped the entire country, followed by Maryland, Washington, the District of Columbia, California, Colorado and Virginia.On the other end, Mississippi ranked as the least innovative state. Louisiana, West Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee rounded out the bottom five.WalletHub compared all 50 states and the District of Columbia by 22 different
  
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• Boy Scouts of America issues statement on Payson teen with Down syndrome, family responds

  22-03-2018 15:19
  
  The Boy Scouts of America and the Utah National Parks Council in Utah County are facing a lawsuit after a family of a teen with Down syndrome claims their son was not accepted into the Alternative Eagle Scout Program because of his mental disability.
  
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• Artillery exercise at Camp Williams starts Monday

  22-03-2018 09:00
  CAMP WILLIAMS — Ammunition training is set to take place beginning Monday and lasting through Wednesday. The training will take place intermittently between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily.Those expected to be most affected by the exercises are residents of Bluffdale, Riverton, Herriman, Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs and Lehi.For more information please contact the Camp Williams hotline at 801-432-4407.
  
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• Police report sheds more light on accusations against former MTC president

  22-03-2018 05:33
  PROVO — A police report released Wednesday evening sheds new light on allegations against a former president of the LDS Church's Missionary Training Center in Provo.In an interview with BYU University Police three months ago, Joseph L. Bishop, 85, said he asked a missionary to expose her breasts to him in a room at the MTC in 1984, which she did, but he denied her allegation that he raped her.The new information came from a University Police case report originally released as a heavily red
  
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• Utah's 'ring' counties among nation's fastest growing

  22-03-2018 05:06
  MOUNTAIN GREEN, Morgan County — Ashley and Gavin McCleary hopped from house to house in Layton, Ogden, Syracuse, and Farmington, but they didn't feel at home until their family of six settled into a small mountainside community in Morgan County five years ago."It's not suburbia and it's not out-on-your-own country. It's that kind of perfect in-between where you feel like you've got a little bit more space, less traffic, clean air, and you're still close to all of the amenities and the work
  
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• Police: Man rescued from remote Emery County slot canyon after breaking his leg

  22-03-2018 04:49
  
  A man from Nephi was rescued Wednesday morning after he fell and broke his leg in a remote slot canyon near Goblin Valley State Park.
  
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• Curtis defends his actions regarding former police chief

  22-03-2018 04:43
  
  Utah Republican congressman John Curtis is again defending his actions as Provo mayor over the hiring and handling of harassment complaints against a former police chief.
  
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• 5th-grader aims to save toddlers' lives with science project

  22-03-2018 03:07
  SALT LAKE CITY — For fifth-grader Seigi Aoki, the science fair is more than just devising experiments to test a scientific principle."It's to minimize the amount of drownings and injuries inside the bathtub," Aoki said as he stood at a booth displaying a prototype helmet for babies that beeps when it gets wet.Aoki said that bathtub drownings are the most common cause of accidental death for children between the ages of 1 and 4, and it happens when parents leave the child unattended, even b
  
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• Police: Man who struck women with baseball bat arrested in Kearns

  22-03-2018 01:51
  
  Police have arrested a man who they say assaulted his ex-girlfriend and another person with a baseball bat in the parking lot of a South Jordan restaurant earlier this month.
  
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• Utah governor signs bill allowing medical marijuana use by terminally ill patients

  22-03-2018 01:41
  SALT LAKE CITY — A bill giving terminally ill patients access to certain forms of medical cannabis was signed into law this week by Gov. Gary Herbert.The new law, introduced and debated this year as HB195, allows a physician's recommendation of marijuana to be given to any patient who has been diagnosed as having "an incurable and irreversible disease" and likely has six months or less to live.Herbert signed it Tuesday.Forms of marijuana allowed to be recommended under the new law include
  
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• Audio: 911 dispatcher helps bystander save St. George girl in near drowning

  22-03-2018 01:28
  
  Audio of a brief 911 call includes a dispatcher talking a caller through lifesaving measures after a girl nearly drowned in St. George last week.
  
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• Utah learning-tech firm Instructure turns 10, opens 10th office

  22-03-2018 01:27
  PLEASANT GROVE — Utah learning-management software company Instructure engaged in a festival of 10s on Wednesday, celebrating both its 10-year anniversary cutting the ribbon on its 10th office location.The company, best-known for its cloud-based Canvas platform that connects and streamlines interactions between students and instructors, employs more than 1,100 in Utah and around the world and will be able to accommodate 400 employees in its new facility.In a statement, Jeff Weber, Instruct
  
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• Land deal finalized to clean up, develop old Salt Lake landfill, likely for inland port

  22-03-2018 01:11
  SALT LAKE CITY — A real estate arm of the LDS Church has donated to a state agency the site of the old Salt Lake City landfill — a 770-acre property in the city's northwest quadrant that has long been eyed as part of an inland port development.The land, located north of I-80 between 5600 West and 7200 West, was owned by Suburban Land Reserve, a real estate arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, up until late last month, when discussions were finalized to transfer the
  
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• Device helps opioid and heroin addicts through withdrawal symptoms quickly

  22-03-2018 00:40
  SALT LAKE CITY — Freedom from opioid and heroin addiction can be hard to achieve, but a groundbreaking device could help addicts get off those drugs without all the pain and agony of withdrawal symptoms.It's called the NSS-2 BRIDGE. It fits behind the addict's ear as they go through withdrawal. According to a physician assistant at Odyssey House, the device has already helped 10 opioid addicts, despite a lot of initial skepticism.Randy Burton, a former Utah heroin addict, was the first per
  
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• U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. sees Trump, Putin moving toward formal meeting

  22-03-2018 00:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on the Russian president's election victory this past Sunday and suggested the two leaders would soon meet in person.Seven weeks earlier, Trump's man in Moscow — former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. — said in an interview with the radio station Echo of Moscow that the two men are moving toward a face-to-face meeting."We have to take the steps that build the trust and create a framework of problem-solving that res
  
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• 2 seriously injured in Taylorsville crash

  22-03-2018 00:15
  
  Two people were seriously injured in a crash on Wednesday afternoon near 4500 S. 500 West, police said.
  
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• Eagle Mountain taking nominations for Pony Express Days grand marshal

  22-03-2018 00:08
  EAGLE MOUNTAIN — Nominations are being accepted for the 2018 Pony Express Days grand marshal.The grand marshal will be recognized at several events during the city's annual celebration, which runs May 25 through June 2, and a the EnduroCross event in July.Nominees must be at least 18 years old, reside in in the city, be in good standing, have displayed pride and commitment to the community and be willing to carry out the functions of grand marshal.Nominations can be made through Monday, Ma
  
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