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• YWCA to honor ex-Utah Gov. Olene Walker, who extols ‘sense of humor’ in politics

  03-08-2017 23:32
  Utah's only female governor started out watching the recent Republican presidential debate by pulling for the only woman on the stage, Carly Fiorina, but that changed before the three-hour marathon ended."She didn't have a sense of humor sufficient to really be effective," says Olene Walker.Walker would know, having a good one herself.And, using her logic, maybe that's what helped make her so effective that — more than a decade after her 14 months as the state's chief executive — peo
  
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• Report: Secret Service agents wanted to embarrass Utah’s Chaffetz

  03-08-2017 23:32
  Washington • About 18 minutes into U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz's March hearing on the Secret Service's series of security lapses, a senior agent logged into the agency's computer database to find that the Utah Republican had once applied, and been rejected, for a job with the service.Within days, about 45 Secret Service agents or employees accessed Chaffetz's personal information, and that information had been passed on to the news media in an attempt to embarrass Chaffetz, who, as chairman of
  
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• New Utah health coverage proposal may already be in jeopardy

  03-08-2017 23:32
  A bid to expand health coverage for tens of thousands of Utah's poor may already be on life support after a lukewarm response from House Republicans and a crucial parliamentary decision by House Speaker Greg Hughes that will make passing the bill much more difficult.The GOP House members met for several hours Tuesday for their first full briefing on the Medicaid expansion plan — branded as Utah Access Plus — hammered out by legislative leaders and the governor's office, but many
  
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• Mormon Sen. Harry Reid calls for compromise, warns against religious extremism

  03-08-2017 23:32
  Charlottesville, Va. • Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Saturday echoed Pope Francis' remarks to Congress, calling for more inclusion within religion and urging compromise over extremism.Reid, a Nevada Democrat and one of the highest-ranking Mormons in public office, said taking a hard line with regard to faith can lead to dangerous results, stretching a religious belief to the opposite of its intention."In the name of Catholicism and absolutism, we had the crusades, horrible things don
  
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• Mormon apostle appears at Philadelphia meeting, spells out ways to boost families

  03-08-2017 23:32
  While all eyes were on Pope Francis in Washington and New York on Thursday, LDS apostle D. Todd Christofferson told attendees at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia about Mormon practices that enrich and enhance home life for the faithful.Christofferson told Catholic and other participants at the gathering that family prayer helps the powerless find empowerment and that family scripture study instills preparation to meet life's challenges, according to an LDS Church news release. He no
  
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• Group’s homeless plan includes $30 million Salt Lake City bond

  03-08-2017 23:32
  The recipe for solving homelessness must, of course, include housing.The Crossroads Urban Center on Thursday unveiled an initiative that seeks to get the homeless back in housing quickly, while increasing funds for service providers that already are up and running.The $30 million proposal comes as Mayor Ralph Becker's commission on homeless providers is determining whether to move the Road Home shelter from Rio Grande Street. At the same time, a separate commission under the guidance of Salt Lak
  
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• Evidence hearing delayed for Utah man charged in toddler’s death

  03-08-2017 23:32
  A preliminary hearing has been delayed for a Layton man charged with first-degree felony aggravated murder in the death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son.Joshua Scott Schoenenberger, 34, is accused of fatally beating James "JJ" Sieger Jr. on May 9, after the man became frustrated over failed potty training.Schoenenberger was due in court Thursday for a preliminary hearing — where prosecutors would present evidence and 2nd District Judge John Morris would decided whether there was probable
  
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• Dalai Lama cancels visit; Utah followers pray for his health

  03-08-2017 23:32
  Utah's Tibetan community reacted with sadness Friday to the news that the Dalai Lama would not be coming to the Beehive State next month because of his health.But the 250 or more Tibetans were more concerned for the man they consider to be their leader than for their own loss."The cancellation was a big disappointment for all of us because we so looked forward to welcoming him and receiving his blessing," Tibetan spokeswoman Pema Chagzoetsang said. "But his health is much more important than par
  
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• Conversion therapies don’t work, experts say, so why do gay Mormons still seek them out?

  03-08-2017 23:32
  Photo correction • An incorrect photo of the Jeff Bennion quoted in this story was included in the original online gallery that accompanied this article. The erroneous photo has been removed. The Salt Lake Tribune apologizes for the error.Men holding other men, as fathers cradle their newborn sons. Men running naked in the woods, like innocent boys during playful childhoods. Men exploring their bodies, as they once did in puberty. Men caressing a silky scarf, like they might a woman.Men sha
  
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• Utah’s Chaffetz launching late run for House speaker

  03-08-2017 23:31
  Washington • Rep. Jason Chaffetz plans to mount a long-shot bid to replace outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, a sudden decision that leaves the Utah Republican with only a few days to whip up support.Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, joins the speaker race less than a week before the GOP caucus is scheduled to select its choice for the top job, which seemed a lock for Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.Chaffetz is expected to formally announce his run
  
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• Utah woman pleads guilty to fatally stabbing girlfriend

  03-08-2017 23:31
  A 23-year-old Utah woman pleaded guilty as charged to murder on Thursday, admitting that she stabbed her girlfriend to death last year while the two were driving on the freeway in Weber County.Victoria Ashley Mendoza was charged in Ogden's 2nd District Court with first-degree felony murder in the stabbing of 21-year-old Tawnee Marie Baird on Oct. 18, 2014.She pleaded guilty to the charge on Thursday, according to her attorney, Michael Studebaker."[She] was just like, 'You know, I just want to pl
  
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• Utah rescuers may start using drones to help find people

  03-08-2017 23:31
  After a lot of negative buzz for interfering with wildfire operations, drones might soon have a place in another type of emergency response: search and rescue."In the emergency world, the interest in drones is swelling right now," said Joe Dougherty, spokesman for the Utah Division of Emergency Management. While Dougherty attended an annual, statewide public information conference in St. George this week, first responders were asking a lot of questions about drones' potential. "Agencies are look
  
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• Americans want ‘fresh start,’ says Utah’s Chaffetz in announcing his speaker bid

  03-08-2017 23:31
  Washington • Rep. Jason Chaffetz vanquished any doubts Sunday. He is running for House speaker."The American public wants to see a change. They want a fresh start," the Utah Republican said on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace in announcing his long-shot bid. "You don't just give an automatic promotion to the existing leadership team. That doesn't signal change."Chaffetz argues that elevating current GOP bosses — specifically Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. — won't o
  
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• Watchdog reopens probe into Secret Service leak of Chaffetz info

  03-08-2017 23:30
  Washington • The watchdog arm of the Homeland Security Department is reopening an investigation into the Secret Service after its director now says he knew that agents were illegally accessing internal records about Rep. Jason Chaffetz.The department's inspector general released the results of a monthslong investigation into the agency that found that some 45 Secret Service agents or employees logged into a restricted database to see Chaffetz's 2003 job application to join the agency, and t
  
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• Chaffetz hopes for groundswell to make him speaker

  03-08-2017 23:30
  Washington • Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he's talked to half the 247 House Republicans in his bid for speaker ­— and persuaded some to swing his way — but he's not asking any of them to publicly endorse his bid.The Utah Republican hopes, he says, that enough members will see that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., doesn't have support to win the job being vacated by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and that they will look for an alternative."At some point, there'll be
  
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• As Chaffetz seeks speaker post, question remains: Who really wants that job?

  03-08-2017 23:30
  Washington • Should U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz win his long-shot bid for speaker, the Utah Republican would inherit likely the most difficult job in Washington: managing a deeply divided chamber, with an even more deeply divided GOP caucus and an ever-increasing tally of hot-button issues, potential crisis and, oh, yeah, a voting base of conservatives that shuns compromise."I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than have that job," joked Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, as he waited Tuesday in the o
  
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• Will deal mean ‘early retirement’ for Utah power plant?

  03-08-2017 23:29
  As part of a proposed three-way settlement with regulators and environmental groups, a Utah utility has agreed to new limits on the amount of coal its Uintah County plant can burn, potentially ending its operations by 2030.The agreement resolves an appeal filed by WildEarth Guardians and the Sierra Club, challenging the permit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency belatedly issued to the 30-year-old Bonanza Power Plant, south of Dinosaur National Monument. WildEarth hailed the deal, which is
  
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• Utah guv challenger supports private liquor stores, medical marijuana

  03-08-2017 23:29
  Republican challenger Jonathan Johnson is staking out stark differences between himself and GOP Gov. Gary Herbert on two contentious issues — by coming out in favor of privatizing state liquor stores and supporting a limited medical-marijuana bill.Johnson's views put him squarely in the libertarian camp of the Republican Party and offer a sneak peek of how he will differentiate himself from Herbert.Liquor stores • Johnson said state audits have shown that the Department of Alcoholic B
  
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• Teen boy arrested in suspected Wayne County homicide

  03-08-2017 23:29
  A teenage male was being held Monday in a maximum security juvenile detention center pending charges in the weekend slaying of a Fremont man.Wayne County sheriff's spokeswoman Kassidee Brown said the youth, who is a minor and therefore not identified, was arrested Sunday after deputies responded to a 911 call and found the body of Jerimiah Randall James, 32, inside his home.Brown later said the cause of death was strangulation, per a state medical examiner's report.The suspect was booked into th
  
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• Sports galore online: Cricket, wrestling, ice skating

  03-08-2017 23:29
  Football, baseball and men's basketball have major sites dedicated to streaming games for hard-core fans. But other sports do, too. Here's a list of some free and paid services:Baseball • Mlb.tvBasketball • www.nba.com/leaguepass; liveaccess.wnba.comBowling •www.youtube.com/user/BowlTVCricket • www.willow.tvCycling • www.cycling.tv; tourdefrance.nbcsports.comFootball • www.nfl.com/gamepass; sundayticket.tv; www.nfl.com/appsGolf • www.pgatourlive.comHockey &bull
  
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• Shurtleff also wants feds to turn over evidence

  03-08-2017 23:29
  Mark Shurtleff is joining in a motion by prosecutors who are asking a state judge to order the U.S. government turn over any evidence it gathered in its aborted investigation of the former Utah attorney general and his successor.Evidence from the aborted investigation of Shurlteff likely will contain information that will help his defense in the criminal case against him, wrote Sam Alba, an attorney for Shurtleff, in backing the motion recently filed by Shurtleff's chief prosecutor, Davis County
  
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• Saratoga Springs wants judge to enforce Darrien Hunt death settlement

  03-08-2017 23:29
  An attorney for Saratoga Springs has asked a federal court judge to enforce a settlement agreement in the death of Darrien Hunt — who was killed by police last year — which the man's mother said she had rejected.Susan Hunt said last month at a rally marking the anniversary of her son's death that she had turned down a $900,000 offer to settle her lawsuit against the city and two of its officers.The settlement would have barred her from commenting about the case, according to Susan Hu
  
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• Parole board releases jailed businessman who has ties to Shurtleff, Swallow scandals

  03-08-2017 23:29
  A former businessman who played a role in the public-corruption scandal that rocked the Utah Attorney General's Office has been released from prison two months after he challenged the grounds for his incarceration.Marc Sessions Jenson was released from state custody on Tuesday following an order issued by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, his attorney, Helen Redd said.Documents show the board decided to release Jenson last week, after the Utah Attorney General's Office said it was unable to
  
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• Lawmakers get earful on Medicaid expansion plan

  03-08-2017 23:29
  Low-income Utahns pleaded with lawmakers Tuesday to pass legislation that they said could enable them to get urgent treatment for illnesses, but the proposal met with a barrage of criticism from doctors and other health providers who said taxing them to pay for the health care is unfair and damaging.Members of the Health Reform Task Force heard hours of testimony about the recently unveiled Utah Access Plus proposal, the first and perhaps only hearing on the plan hammered out in months of negoti
  
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• Julie Jason: Should you prepare for the bear?

  03-08-2017 23:29
  More people are worried about the market than a month ago, according to recent report (Oct. 1, 2015) by Spectrem Group.Last month, 27 percent of affluent people surveyed responded that "market conditions" were the most serious threat to achieving their household's financial goals at this time. That's up from 17 percent three months ago, when this question was last asked. Who are the affluent? Households with $500,000 net worth, excluding their homes.Millionaires are usually more "upbeat," accord
  
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• In ‘Sister Wives’ case, Utah cites Warren Jeffs as reason polygamy should be illegal

  03-08-2017 23:29
  The Utah Attorney General's Office is invoking jailed polygamous leader Warren Jeffs as proof that plural marriage should be illegal in Utah.The state argues in a filing Tuesday with a federal appeals court in Denver that Jeffs' actions show what can happen when polygamy is allowed. Jeffs is serving a life sentence in a Texas prison for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered wives.The state is challenging a 2013 ruling that struck down a key part of Utah's law banning polygamy, bringin
  
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• Ex-Overstock CEO critical of the same corporate tax breaks his company received

  03-08-2017 23:29
  During campaign stops on his bid to knock off Gov. Gary Herbert, former Overstock.com President and CEO Jonathan Johnson frequently argues that the governor's office should not use tax breaks to lure corporations to the state or encourage them to expand."The governor has been in the business of picking winners and losers through the Governor's Office of Economic Development," Johnson said in a recent interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. Of the incentive winners, he said, "about three-fourths of
  
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• Desert tortoise no longer candidate for federal protection

  03-08-2017 23:29
  Tucson, Ariz. • The Sonoran desert tortoise is not at risk for extinction and will no longer be listed as a candidate for Endangered Species Act protections, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday.The agency says the decision is partly because of the commitments various government agencies have made to protect the animal in Arizona. There are about 470,000 to 970,000 adult desert tortoises in the U.S. and Mexico."We and our federal and state partners will continue to monitor th
  
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• Conservative caucus deals blow to Chaffetz bid for House speaker

  03-08-2017 23:29
  Washington • A conservative bloc of House members dealt a significant blow to Rep. Jason Chaffetz's bid for speaker on Wednesday by endorsing Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida for the top job.But the House Freedom Caucus' move ­— which may lead to a group vote for Webster on the floor — still plays into the concern that Chaffetz, R-Utah, laid out when he announced his long-shot bid: that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy won't be able to get a majority of the House's votes on Oct.
  
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• Becker TV ad: McAdams questions Biskupski’s vision and leadership

  03-08-2017 23:29
  The pugilistic contest that is the Salt Lake City mayoral race got a little more bare knuckled over the weekend as incumbent Ralph Becker called on a former top adviser to weigh in against challenger Jackie Biskupski.In a TV ad paid for by Becker's campaign, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams casts doubt on Biskupski: "With a strong partnership between Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City, we have been able to do amazing things," McAdams says. "I need a strong partner in Salt Lake City. I'm not s
  
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• Young progressives Kitchen, Salazar vie for District 4 seat in Salt Lake City

  03-08-2017 23:27
  Two young, progressive candidates are vying for the Salt Lake City Council seat for District 4, which runs from the University of Utah to Interstate 15 and encompasses downtown.Derek Kitchen, who took on Utah's same-sex-marriage ban and won, is seeking the seat being vacated by Council Chairman Luke Garrott, who ran an unsuccessful bid for mayor. Kitchen has never held political office.Originally from South Jordan, Kitchen, 26, is a 10-year resident of Salt Lake City and the owner and operator o
  
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• Why are Mormon temples being renovated?

  03-08-2017 23:27
  Mormons view their temples as "houses of the Lord," but even God's digs need makeovers from time to time.And come February, one of the faith's busiest temples — the Jordan River Temple in South Jordan — will shut down for more than 18 months for "extensive renovation."The LDS Church, by its own count, has 148 temples in operation across the globe. Twelve more are under construction, with announced plans for another 13, according to the church-run website mormontemples.org.Renovations
  
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• Utah woman charged for allegedly stabbing, trying to kill mom

  03-08-2017 23:27
  A Murray woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly attacking her mother in West Valley City earlier this week.Dianna Sue Robles, 30, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with the first-degree felony. She was also charged with assault against an officer, a second-degree felony; aggravated assault, a third-degree felony; and misdemeanor counts of burglary of a vehicle and criminal mischief.On Sunday morning, Robles' mother noticed that her daughter was acting "very strang
  
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• Utah says Planned Parenthood’s ‘callousness’ is not protected by Constitution

  03-08-2017 23:27
  The state has formally rebutted Planned Parenthood's claims that its constitutional rights were violated when Gov. Gary Herbert cut off federal funds.The state argues that it had "unbridled discretion" to end contracts for three programs, including an after-school sex-education program, a network that monitored sexually transmitted diseases, and an STD testing program, according to a memorandum filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for Utah. A fourth contract, for another after-school program,
  
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• Utah mom accused of smothering her son ordered to stand trial on charges

  03-08-2017 23:27
  A West Valley City mother was ordered to stand trial for murder on Thursday, accused of smothering her 13-month-old son last year.Kim Hawkins, 24, was charged in May with the first-degree felony crime. The woman's preliminary hearing concluded Thursday with 3rd District Court Judge Mark Kouris ruling that there was sufficient evidence for the case to move forward.Hawkins' attorneys had asked Kouris to throw out the charge, arguing that there was no evidence to show that the woman suffocated her
  
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• ‘Sister Wives’ is mixing stereotypes of polygamy, reality television

  03-08-2017 23:27
  "If you and your family are ever asked to star in a reality TV show, run. Run far. Run fast. Don't look back."The Tribune's television critic Scott D. Pierce wrote those words in a column published in May. He was writing about the Duggar family. At the time, I thought Pierce was just stating the obvious.Now the words read like prophecy.The latest family whose television celebrity seems to be distilling to scandal is the Brown family of the show "Sister Wives." The former and sometimes-still Utah
  
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• Q&A: What you need to know about the naming of new Mormon apostles

  03-08-2017 23:27
  As this weekend's sessions of LDS General Conference approach, one big question — with three answers — looms:Who will be the three new Mormon apostles?It's a big deal because these three will join an elite group in helping to guide, mold and manage The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the rest of their lives. One, two or even all three could rise someday to lead the global faith as its prophet-president.So who decides on the new apostles?That's easy. The LDS Church pre
  
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• One-third of Utah lawmakers have connections to health care industry

  03-08-2017 23:27
  Doctors, hospitals and other medical providers are working hard behind the scenes to scuttle a proposal to levy $50 million in taxes and fees on health care providers in order to expand coverage to low-income Utahns. And they are making their pitch to a decidedly friendly audience.According to legislative conflict-of-interest disclosures, 21 House members and 14 senators have varying levels of connections to the medical field, many belonging to the same groups now lobbying hard against the Medic
  
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• Mormons recall favorite conference sermons — on service, sacrament, riches, doubt and diversity

  03-08-2017 23:27
  Every six months, LDS leaders address the world's 15 million-plus Mormons at General Conference.Their speeches — streamed, beamed and broadcast from the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City — are viewed as authoritative, posted on the Utah-based faith's website, printed in its official magazine and studied carefully by many members.Some remarks make history for the church as a whole; some make memories for individual Mormons. We asked several Latter-day Saints to tell us abou
  
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• Many Utah charter-school teachers aren’t ‘qualified’ — or sticking around

  03-08-2017 23:27
  Last year, Riverdale's Good Foundations Academy lost six of its 25 teachers, according to Executive Director Brent Petersen.The exodus was due in part to Hill Air Force Base families leaving the area, he said, and made for some "outlandish" retention data.But Good Foundations also has a qualification problem, which Petersen attributes to the school's practice of recruiting teachers from outside Utah.In 2013 and 2014, less than 85 percent of the charter's teachers were appropriately licensed or e
  
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• Locally grown laughs in ‘We Love You, Sally Carmichael!’

  03-08-2017 23:27
  A writer struggles with fame — his and others’ — in “We Love You, Sally Carmichael!,” a pleasantly cute little comedy filmed in the Salt Lake City area.Former “Ugly Betty” and “Covert Affairs” co-star Christopher Gorham directs and stars as Simon Hayes, a Salt Lake City author who has tasted failure under his own name and success under someone else’s. His first serious novel sank without a trace, so then he wrote a young-adult romance n
  
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• Living history: Before coming to Utah, a stamp collection saved their lives in Nazi Germany

  03-08-2017 23:27
  Part One of TwoBorn in February 1901 in Ribnitz, eastern Germany, Max Lichenheim was 7 years old when his father, a collector, gave him a cigar box filled with stamps. Two years later, the youngster had more than 1,000 stamps from around the world. Little did he know that, by 1939, those stamps would save his family's life in their flight from Nazi GermanyLichenheim was devoted to the study of philately and investment, and eventually inherited his father's extensive collection. He also studied l
  
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• Jeremy Johnson case bedeviled again by evidence issues

  03-08-2017 23:27
  First there were too many emails intercepted by the federal government, now there are allegedly missing emails — lots of them.The criminal case against indicted St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson continues to get more complicated as a Feb. 1 trial inches closer — this time with allegations that several years worth of emails are missing from evidence that's been provided to the five defendants.That comes on top of recent revelations that the government had gathered at least 4,000 s
  
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• In sage grouse ‘win,’ Utah sees loss (with slideshow)

  03-08-2017 23:27
  For the past five years, the energy industry, Utah political leaders and county commissioners have implored the feds to not list the greater sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species, arguing resulting protections would smother rural economic development and put an end to drilling in sagebrush country.They got their wish, but it came with a poison pill that could perpetuate Utah's sage-grouse conservation controversy for years to come. Last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior app
  
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• Embattled Utah Democrat Justin Miller pleads guilty to fraud, gives up House seat

  03-08-2017 23:27
  Democratic state Rep. Justin Miller pleaded guilty Friday to one count of communications fraud — stemming from allegations he embezzled money from Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams' campaign — and has resigned his House seat.Charges were filed Friday morning, and Miller, 35, pleaded guilty before 3rd District Judge Katie Bernards-Goodman. Miller was expected to be booked and released on his own recognizance.Communications fraud is a second-degree felony, and Miller faces a potential
  
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• 45,000 Utahns could not pay off payday loans last year

  03-08-2017 23:27
  The payday loan industry insists that the vast majority of its customers can afford the high-interest loans. But last year, 45,655 Utahns — roughly the population of Bountiful — could not pay off those loans in the 10 weeks that they can be extended."That's pretty bad," says Rep. Brad Daw, R-Orem, an outspoken critic of such loans. "I think it obviously belies the industry's claims" that its loans are not a "debt trap" where borrowers often take out more loans to pay off earlier ones
  
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• Utah man pleads no contest in 2012 death of his girlfriend’s infant son

  03-08-2017 23:25
  A Utah man has pleaded no contest to charges alleging that his girlfriend's 3-month-old son died while in his care.Joshua Jay Harding, 32, entered pleas of no contest in Provo's 4th District Court last week to one count each of third-degree felony child abuse and misdemeanor negligent homicide in the 2012 death of Paxton Stokes. Sentencing is set for Nov. 17.Harding maintained his innocence in plea agreement documents, but said that prosecutors had evidence that proved he was taking care of the
  
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• Utah Effect: Why the state has faster Internet than most of the nation — especially Idaho

  03-08-2017 23:25
  Ever get frustrated by buffering video when trying to use your Netflix account? Has the Internet ever slowed to a crawl because your gamer kid is sucking up the bandwidth?It could be worse — you could live in Idaho.Believe it or not, Utah has the highest Internet speeds in the Intermountain West and among the highest in the nation, while our neighbor to the north is at the other end of the spectrum. The difference, according to experts, comes down to competition among Internet providers, g
  
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• S.C. wants to prosecute church shooting before federal government

  03-08-2017 23:25
  Charleston, S.C. • South Carolina wants to go to trial before the federal government in the Charleston church shootings as it seeks the death penalty for Dylann Roof."That is our preference," state prosecutor Scarlett Wilson wrote in a letter late last week to U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, who is presiding over the federal case. "I appreciate any consideration you may give us in this regard."If the state goes first, Roof is scheduled to face trial July on nine murder counts and other
  
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• Salt Lake City mayor’s race: Becker, Biskupski not pulling punches as Election Day nears

  03-08-2017 23:25
  With ballots already in Salt Lake City residents' mailboxes and one published poll indicating a tight race, the candidates for mayor have sharpened their elbows, going after each other with allegations of special-interest ties and flip-flopping.Mayor Ralph Becker and challenger Jackie Biskupski actually agree on more issues than not, but in a KSL TV debate Wednesday, their differences stood out in such areas as sexual harassment policy and the canyon protection/development blueprint called Mount
  
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