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Haaland Sends Recommendation on Utah Monuments to President

Haaland Sends Recommendation on Utah Monuments to President

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has made her recommendation about whether to reverse former President Donald Trump’s decision to downsize two  Utah national monuments — but it wasn’t known what she decided as of Friday. Haaland gave her report to President Biden on Wednesday, according to […]

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Police Investigate Pride Flag Burning as Possible Hate Crime

Police Investigate Pride Flag Burning as Possible Hate Crime

KAYSVILLE, Utah (AP) —Kaysville police are investigating a possible hate crime after a rainbow pride flag was burned and a note targeting the LGBTQ community was left behind. A Kaysville homeowner told police early Thursday morning that a flag was cut from a flagpole and set on fire in the street, […]

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FILE - In this undated file photo is the Swamp Cedar Natural Area, a tribal site known as the swamp cedars, considered sacred by a number of Shoshone tribes in Ely, northeast Nevada. Lawmakers are considering strengthening protections for trees that Native Americans in northeastern Nevada consider sacred. The Duckwater and Ely Shoshone tribes have used swamp cedars in Spring Valley to memorialize their ancestors lost in three 19th century massacres and have long joined others in efforts to block a proposed pipeline that would siphon groundwater from rural valleys to Las Vegas. (Benjamin Spillman/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

$1B in grants to go for broadband on tribal lands

The Biden administration is making available $1 billion in federal grants to expand the availability of high-speed internet on tribal lands. Vice President Kamala Harris, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the funding Thursday. It comes from the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and […]

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US Agency: Fatal Tour Bus Crash Shows Safety Shortcomings

US Agency: Fatal Tour Bus Crash Shows Safety Shortcomings

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — More than a dozen people were thrown out of a tour bus that crashed and rolled on Utah S.R. 12 in 2019, killing four Chinese tourists and highlighting a lack of safety standards for bus roofs and windows, U.S. investigators said Thursday. The bus crashed after […]

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Kristy and Kenneth Manzanares cruise ship murder


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Utah Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Death of Wife on Cruise

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise in 2017, with a federal judge describing the crime as violent and brutal. Prosecutors had sought life in prison for Kenneth Manzanares, who pleaded guilty last year to […]

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FBI, Vegas police offer $10K for information to ID slain boy

FBI, Vegas police offer $10K for information to ID slain boy

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The FBI joined Las Vegas police Thursday to offer a $10,000 reward for information just to identify a boy whose body was found hidden near the main highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump. Police have said it’s clear the child was killed, but haven’t disclosed how. […]

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Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox speaks during a COVID-19 briefing at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Cox unveiled a plan Friday to ramp up Utah's COVID-19 vaccine distribution as the state sees a post-holiday surge in new cases. Cox, a Republican, said he will issue an executive order requiring facilities to allocate their doses the week they are received and have local health departments manage distribution, with an expectation of administering 50,000 doses a week. (Jeffrey D. Allred/Deseret News, via AP, Pool)

Utah Governor Asks Citizens to Pray for Rain to End Drought

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republican Gov. Spencer J. Cox asked citizens Thursday to pray for rain this weekend to relieve the state from its drought. Cox released a statement calling on Utah citizens to pray for “divine intervention” as an excessive heat warning has been issued for areas […]

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Latter-Day Saint Charities Gives $5 Million To US Refugee Resettlement Agencies

Latter-Day Saint Charities Gives $5 Million To US Refugee Resettlement Agencies

SALT LAKE CITY-Latter-day Saint Charities, the charitable arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is continuing financial support for nine refugee resettlement agencies in the United States through a series of grants totaling $5 million US in 2021. The funds are expected to assist more than 9,000 […]

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FILE - In this March 22, 1965, file photo, participants in the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march are shown at a campsite near Selma, Ala. A new assessment released by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2021 says four campsites used by marchers nearly 60 years earlier are in danger of being lost without efforts to save them. (AP Photo/File)

Selma-to-Montgomery march camps top list of endangered sites

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn’t happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights camping along the roughly 55-mile (89-kilometer) route through Alabama, sleeping in tents and near farm buildings under the watch of guards to prevent white supremacist […]

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Mirror Lake Highway Is Open Thursday

Mirror Lake Highway Is Open Thursday

UINTA-WASATCH-CACHE NATIONAL FOREST, Utah-Thursday morning, the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest confirmed the Mirror Lake Highway is open. #uwcnf Heber-Kamas Ranger District the Mirror Lake Highway (Highway 150) is now open — Uinta-Wasatch-Cache NF (@UWCNF) June 3, 2021