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• 'Zeke' Dumke, a visionary and philanthropist, dies at 94

  14-04-2018 23:12
  SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah athletics director Chris Hill remembers having a discussion with Ezekiel R. "Zeke" Dumke about whether they should put the Dumke name on the gymnastics training center Zeke and his wife Kay had just donated $1 million to help build.Dumke was hesitant. Hill wasn't."I assured him it wasn't so his name would be associated with us," said Hill. "It was because we wanted our name to be associated with his."He was the sweetest guy going. A wonderful, wonderful
  
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• Baby owls relocated from Idaho haystacks to Utah nests

  14-04-2018 21:14
  
  A lover of wildlife from Wyoming is on a humanitarian mission, of sorts, to make sure baby owls have a safe place to grow up.
  
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• Photos: S.L. police train next generation of officers

  14-04-2018 19:59
  Salt Lake City Police Department Explorer Sgt. Jonah Mason, 16, left, and Sgt. Hannah Lingle, 18, right, help teach Cadet Sandra Toledo, 15, the proper way to salute during the Youth Explorer Police Academy outside the Public Safety Building in Salt Lake City on Saturday. The academy is an intense, daylong police training involving youth between 14 and 20 years old. According to the department, being an Explorer allows young people to see life from the perspective of the thin blue line, and what
  
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• Search for missing plane in central Colorado suspended

  14-04-2018 18:53
  
  The search for a small airplane that went missing on its way from northern Colorado to Utah has been suspended.
  
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• SafeUT app used to help kids in crisis can now be used to report acts of kindness

  14-04-2018 17:56
  GRANTSVILLE — The SafeUT app was designed to help kids deal with crises in their lives at home and at school.Students have been able to use the app to confidentially report bullying, a potential attacker at their school or a fellow student who is thinking about hurting themselves. They can submit tips or reach a counselor 24/7.Now, students can also use the SafeUT app to report acts of kindness."It's contagious in a positive way," said Marianne Oborn, the Tooele County School District coun
  
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• Provo runner returns to Boston Marathon after bombings

  14-04-2018 17:42
  
  Many runners from across the world are getting mentally prepared for the Boston Marathon Monday. A Provo woman who was adamant about qualifying for this year’s race, after a long few years for her and her family, will be at the starting line.
  
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• Salt Lake City ranks 3rd most 'hipster city'

  14-04-2018 17:01
  
  Tattoo parlors and coffee shops are among the criteria that the website movehub.com used to determine the 10 most hipster cities in the world. And their findings put Salt Lake City in the No. 3 spot for most hipster cities of the world.
  
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• Military strikes in Syria prompt LDS Church president to leave Jerusalem

  14-04-2018 16:31
  
  LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson, currently on a world tour to visit church members across the world, has left Jerusalem a bit early due to U.S.-led military strikes in neighboring Syria.
  
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• Police: Homeowner dies in fight man who lived on his property

  14-04-2018 06:50
  RANDLETT, Uintah County — Police say a 67-year-old homeowner has died following a fight with a 46-year-old man who lived on his property in eastern Utah.The two began arguing about 1 p.m. Friday at the home near Pelican Lake, the Uintah County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post."At some point during the argument, a handgun was produced and the argument between the two men turned physical," leading to the man's death, but no shots were fired, the sheriff's office said.The younger man
  
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• Semitruck hauling nearly 2K pigs crashes in Iron County

  14-04-2018 05:32
  
  A semitruck hauling approximately 1,900 pigs tipped over on state Route 20 in Iron County early Friday afternoon.
  
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• Utah leaders praise military strike on Syria

  14-04-2018 05:15
  SALT LAKE CITY — Members of Utah's Republican congressional delegation Friday evening largely praised airstrikes in Syria designed to stop alleged chemical attacks on civilians there.The United States, France and Britain launched the strikes in reaction to what President Donald Trump said was Syrian President Bashar Assad's pattern of killing the innocent people of his country, leaving them "thrashing in pain and gasping for air." The Syrian government has denied using such banned weapons.
  
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• Officials: 67-year-old man dies after fight at Uintah County home

  14-04-2018 05:00
  
  Officials are investigating after an altercation that led to the death of a 67-year-old man took place at a home near Pelican Lake on Friday.
  
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• Paralyzed passenger urges drivers to remove distractions

  14-04-2018 04:49
  
  They weren't drinking, texting or even speeding. Yet, the smallest distraction of laughing with friends in the car changed JJ Arechiga's entire world.
  
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• Mine rescues: How agencies train for the unexpected dangers

  14-04-2018 03:45
  
  When authorities determined there were two bodies inside an abandoned mine late last month — likely the remains of two missing teens — they called for Unified Fire Authority in retrieving those bodies due to safety concerns.
  
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• Police: Teen shoots brother in West Valley City

  14-04-2018 03:43
  WEST VALLEY CITY — A 17-year-old boy shot his 25-year-old brother in the shoulder and chest in a neighbor's yard on Friday afternoon, police said.Crews responded to the home about 5 p.m. and had not yet searched for the suspect when he returned in a car, said West Valley Police Lt. Steve Burke."We were still dealing with the victim and getting the victim treated," Burke said.The teen did not resist when officers took him into custody at the home near 3500 West and 4650 South, according to
  
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• High note: Utah Symphony members find joy, talent in Haiti workshops

  14-04-2018 03:34
  SALT LAKE CITY — When a group of musicians from the Utah Symphony took off recently for a week in the Caribbean, they weren't going there to hang out on a beach.They went so they could put their musical skills to work helping young people in a downtrodden place. In one of the world's poorest nations, they found something uplifting: pride, joy and musical talent."I think Haiti has a rich cultural history," said concertmaster Madeline Adkins, one of 17 Utah Symphony musicians who recently pu
  
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• Report: Extreme drought expands from Oklahoma to Utah

  14-04-2018 02:28
  
  Drought is tightening its grip across the American Southwest as extreme conditions spread from Oklahoma to Utah, according to new federal data released Thursday.
  
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• Some Farmington residents concerned over proposed development project

  14-04-2018 02:03
  FARMINGTON — Residents in a Davis County neighborhood are worried a proposal to develop some valuable east-side property could change the quiet serenity of their mostly pastoral community.Concerns have been raised by homeowners in Farmington as a developer is planning to submit a proposal to build a mixed-use project on a swath of land that is part of an as yet unimproved 80-plus acre parcel that sits east of I-15 just north of Park Lane between Main Street and U.S. 89 up to Shephard Park.
  
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• Driver charged with manslaughter, DUI in crash that killed infant

  14-04-2018 01:56
  WEST JORDAN — A driver whose truck plowed through an intersection in Herriman, killing an infant girl, paralyzing his passenger and critically injuring others, has been charged with manslaughter, DUI and other felonies in connection with the crash.Lawrence Probert, 26, of Kearns was charged 3rd District Court Friday with one count of manslaughter and two counts negligent driving resulting in death or injury, both second-degree felonies.Witnesses told investigators Probert's truck was trave
  
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• New report underscores tech is 'rocket fuel' to Utah's economy

  14-04-2018 01:52
  SALT LAKE CITY — Data gathered in a new report shows that Utah's juggernaut tech economy is continuing to gain momentum, leading the country in job growth and among the top 10 states for tech jobs as an overall portion of all occupations.And while the average wage for tech workers in Utah is lagging behind the national average, it's still almost double the average for non-tech jobs.Local economists and tech leaders say they're not surprised by the positive metrics gathered in the Computing
  
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• UHP 'outreach' troopers help Minnesota family find missing loved one

  14-04-2018 01:32
  SALT LAKE CITY — A new Utah Highway Patrol unit is trying to build relationships with the homeless in the Rio Grande neighborhood, but its attention to detail also recently helped reunite a man with the family who had been searching for him for the past two years.Bonnie Kunz, one of five "homeless outreach" troopers now working the area, learned in February of a Minnesota family's struggle to find Mark Waters, a loved one who had been completely off the grid for two years and absent for mu
  
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• Photos: April showers can't put a damper on Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival

  14-04-2018 01:27
  Myrna Vidal, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, takes a picture of the flowers while it snows during the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi on Friday. Vidal and her husband, Leo, made a stop at the Tulip Festival while on a road trip. The couple also plans to visit Arches, Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks. Friday marked the first day of the 14th annual festival, which runs through May 5. The event, which is closed Sundays, features nearly 300,000 tulips spread across the 55-acre garden.
  
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• 8 baby owls resettled in Utah with help from the 'owl man'

  14-04-2018 01:21
  PERRY, Box Elder County — After a long journey, eight baby owls have landed in new homes around northern Utah."Today, with these birds, this is like coming home, so to speak," said Darin Day, an owl-lover since the seventh grade, who delivered tiny owls found in Idaho to artificial nest boxes Friday.Farmers found the owls about two weeks ago in the Idaho Falls area in haystacks after moving hay, exposing the babies, Day said.The owls were then left with the fish and game department, but Id
  
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• Officials: Man in serious condition after WVC shooting

  14-04-2018 01:18
  
  A man is in serious condition after a shooting in West Valley City on Friday afternoon.
  
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• 3 years later, family implores public to keep looking for missing Provo student

  14-04-2018 01:18
  PROVO — Loved ones and investigators are adamant that the search for an English language student who vanished in Provo three years ago has not been closed, but they remain desperate for new leads in the investigation.Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado had been in Utah just three weeks, coming to study the language after completing an LDS mission, when she disappeared walking home from school in the middle of the day. No explanation for the disappearance, which police immediately treated as sus
  
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• 7 people arrested as IDOC investigates corruption among Boise correctional officers

  14-04-2018 01:15
  
  For the past two years, the FBI has investigated corruption within the Idaho Department of Correction, including investigating current and former correctional officers who officials say used their positions to aid drug trafficking at an Idaho prison.
  
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