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• Group says it wants to boost GOP moral conscience

  25-03-2018 23:36
  SALT LAKE CITY — A new group of Utah Republicans says it wants party leaders to speak up when GOP officials stray from good morals and ethics.Character First, formed last week, says its sights are broader than just the White House."We feel there's kind of a crisis of character in the party and in the country," said group organizer Sven Wilson. "This isn't an anti-Trump movement, per se. It's more about, let's take our concerns and try to send a positive message."The group is recruiting del
  
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• One woman dead, 2 others critically injured in rollover

  25-03-2018 23:16
  SALT LAKE CITY — One woman was killed and two others were hospitalized in critical condition Sunday as a result of a rollover crash about 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of California Avenue and Bangerter Highway.According to Utah Highway Patrol troopers who responded to the crash, Department of Natural Resources officers may have been involved in some capacity but were uninjured.The investigation by the UHP, the State Bureau of Investigation and the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office is
  
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• Orem man succeeds with Down syndrome, prepares to attend USU

  25-03-2018 23:10
  PROVO — Like many college students, Jonny Peay, of Orem, was elated when his acceptance letter to Utah State University landed in his mailbox."I felt so happy," Peay said.For Peay, 22, getting into USU was an intricate process of meetings, interviewing and then spending a day on campus to see if he fit with the campus and if the campus fit for him.Peay is unique and full of faith and hope. He loves people and he enjoys serving them, according to his mother, Lisa Sage Peay.In some parts of
  
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• About Utah: A Utah story that's old and sweet

  25-03-2018 22:18
  SOUTH SALT LAKE — The sweetest business in Utah, and one of the oldest, can be found on a quiet street here in South Salt Lake, tucked away behind an audio-visual supplier.Except for a small sign out front that says "Miller's Honey Company," there is nothing to suggest that this is a successful enterprise that has been around for 124 years, and no clues that it was this made-in-Utah business that pioneered the practice of transporting bees to warm climates in the winter so they could be pr
  
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• 1 dead, 2 critically injured after crash on Bangerter Highway

  25-03-2018 21:29
  
  One person is dead and two more are in critical condition after a crash on Bangerter Highway on Sunday morning, officials said.
  
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• Utah jobless rate still hovered at 3.1 percent last month

  25-03-2018 19:58
  
  Utah's unemployment rate held steady last month at 3.1 percent.
  
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• Officials: Report of shooting in Hooper turns out to be hoax

  25-03-2018 18:23
  
  A report of a Sunday morning shooting in Weber County turned out to be a hoax, officials said.
  
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• Utah congressman calls wildfire budget plan 'missed opportunity'

  25-03-2018 18:10
  WASHINGTON — Last week's spending bill includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that have devastated the West in recent years.The bill sets aside more than $20 billion over 10 years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agencies end a practice of raiding nonfire-related accounts to pay for wildfire costs, which approached $3 billion last year.But Utah Congressman Rob Bishop slammed the wildfire measure as a missed op
  
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• Senate OKs bill to expand child alert system to tribal land

  25-03-2018 18:03
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The U.S. Senate has approved a bill that expands a child abduction alert system to tribal land.The bill is named for Ashlynne Mike, an 11-year-old girl who was lured into a van on the Navajo Nation in May 2016, sexually assaulted and killed. An Amber Alert wasn't issued until the day after she was reported missing. Her body was found near Shiprock, New Mexico.The bill cleared the Senate on Thursday.The bill gives tribes direct access to federal grants that law enforcemen
  
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• Inside the newsroom: A march, young voices and signs of the times

  25-03-2018 08:49
  SALT LAKE CITY — They started at West High School and snaked their way down city streets and up the hill to the state Capitol. Thousands were there "marching for their lives" a month after a deeply troubled 19-year-old gunman shot and killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.The signs told the story, both in Salt Lake City and in the more than 800 other cities around the world where young people in elementary, middle and high schools were joined by like-minded
  
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• Tooele firefighter hears crying after fire, rescues 7 tiny kittens

  25-03-2018 06:41
  ERDA, Tooele County — After first responders put out a barn fire in Erda on Saturday, firefighter Nate Jones heard the sound of kittens crying.He investigated and found seven wet kittens inside a shed who were "pretty vocal looking for their mom," said North Tooele Fire District spokesman Ryan Willden.Firefighters from that district and the Grantsville Fire Department responded around 12:30 p.m. to a fire that had burned several buildings on the property, according to Willden.The property
  
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• Rap group, bystander injured in drive-by shooting

  25-03-2018 06:35
  
  Three people from a traveling rap group and one bystander were injured after being shot in a West Valley parking lot Saturday, police said.
  
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• Social media spurs action, but school shootings 'not a raging epidemic,' expert says

  25-03-2018 06:27
  SALT LAKE CITY — Social media galvanized students nationwide after the Feb. 14 Parkland school massacre that killed 17 people. Hundreds of thousands of youths took to the streets for the "March for Our Lives" event on Saturday, calling for action over the "looming threat of gun violence in schools."While mass shootings tend to get a lot attention because of media coverage and social media, violent deaths in schools have dropped significantly since the 1990s, according to experts and nation
  
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• Inside the newsroom: Inside the newsroom: A march, young voices and signs of the times

  25-03-2018 06:07
  SALT LAKE CITY — They started at West High School and snaked their way down city streets and up the hill to the state Capitol. Thousands were there "marching for their lives" a month after a deeply troubled 19-year-old gunman shot and killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.The signs told the story, both in Salt Lake City and in the more than 800 other cities around the world where young people in elementary, middle and high schools were joined by like-minded
  
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• Man drowns while practicing holding his breath, police say

  25-03-2018 06:02
  
  Thirty-nine year old Gabriel Crowther drowned at a local swimming pool as he practiced holding his breath underwater Saturday.
  
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• Photos: Rainbow clouds hang over thousands at Holi Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork

  25-03-2018 06:00
  Thousands threw colored powders at the 22nd annual Holi Festival of Colors held at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork on Saturday. The event, which originates in Hinduism, celebrates the end of winter and arrival of spring.See the world through the eyes of award-winning photojournalists. Click through the gallery above to view the unique images our visual storytellers captured today. Don't forget to follow the official Deseret News Instagram account for more photographs and videos
  
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• Teen critically injured after 20-foot fall from parking structure in Sandy

  25-03-2018 04:28
  
  A 15-year-old boy was critically injured after falling from the top level of a parking structure Saturday evening, officials confirm.
  
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• Boy, 15, critically injured after fall from Jordan Commons parking structure

  25-03-2018 04:17
  SANDY — A 15-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition Saturday after falling from a parking structure.The boy, who was with family members, fell between 20 and 25 feet from a parking structure of Jordan Commons, about 9300 S. State in Sandy, around 6:30 p.m., according to Sandy Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen.After Sandy paramedics responded to the incident, the 15-year-old was transported to Intermountain Medical Center in critical condition, Nielsen said.There was "nothing suspiciou
  
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• A man goes shopping with an AR-15 rifle on his shoulder, locking down nearby schools: Is he within his rights or causing a disturbance?

  25-03-2018 01:07
  EAGLE MOUNTAIN — Police say the man wasn't breaking the law. He just walked into a convenience store to get a drink.But he did it with a rifle strapped to his shoulder.A 21-year-old man walked into a Maverik gas station, 9217 Ranches Parkway in Eagle Mountain, on March 14 carrying an AR-15 along with a handgun in a holster on his side, both visible to the public.The man did not make any threats and did not point his weapons at anyone, said Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon. He told
  
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• 'Never again': Thousands in Utah rally for gun reform, safer schools

  25-03-2018 00:44
  SALT LAKE CITY — Abena Bakenra has made it a habit to scan every classroom she's in for the best hiding place.It's not something she's proud of, but it is what she's come up with to keep her sanity when mass shootings keep happening in American schools."Fear no longer has a place in our schools," the West High School senior told a crowd of thousands gathered at the Utah State Capitol Saturday for the student-led "March for Our Lives."The movement, calling for stricter gun laws, rose out of
  
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