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Police: Dirt Bike Driver Arrested After Hitting Utah Trooper

Police: Dirt Bike Driver Arrested After Hitting Utah Trooper

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has been arrested after police said he struck a state highway patrol trooper last weekend while riding a dirt bike. Jamin Jenkins, 20, faces multiple charges including aggravated assault, failure to respond to an officer’s signal to stop and purchasing, possessing, or consuming alcohol […]

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Brigham Young University To Conduct Traditional Fall Semester In 2021

Brigham Young University To Conduct Traditional Fall Semester In 2021

PROVO, Utah-Monday, Brigham Young University confirmed the fall semester 2021 on the Provo campus will occur under traditional circumstances with mostly in-person classes. The university cited decreasing covid-19 cases and increased vaccinations as the cause. Furthermore, BYU will evaluate how virtual learning may have enhanced elements of certain courses and […]

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Grim western fire season starts much drier than record 2020

Grim western fire season starts much drier than record 2020

As bad as last year’s record-shattering fire season was, the western U.S. starts this year’s in even worse shape. The soil in the West is record dry for this time of year. In much of the region, plants that fuel fires are also the driest scientists have seen. The vegetation […]

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UDOT Reports Traffic Incident At River Road

UDOT Reports Traffic Incident At River Road

WASATCH COUNTY, Utah-Monday, UDOT reported signal problems at River Road on U.S. 40 as of 10:34 am. The estimated clearance time is 11:29 am. For the time being, officials request that drivers use the River Road traffic light as a four-way stop. The latest information is available on the UDOT […]

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints MTC’s To Resume Limited On-Site Training

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints MTC’s To Resume Limited On-Site Training

SALT LAKE CITY-Because of covid-19 circumstances improving in certain parts of the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is resuming on-site training for new missionaries in a phased and cautious approach. Over the course of the past 14 months, the Salt Lake City-based Church reports more than […]

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Fire Tears Through at Least Five Homes in St. George

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A large fire tore through several homes in St. George late Friday It also caused widespread traffic problems downtown before being contained that evening, The Spectrum reported. Multiple houses were caught in the blaze, along with various other buildings on Diagonal Street north of St. […]

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Meghan Burdick, left, and Layne and Kim Olsen visit the grave of their brother and son, Lance Cpl. Nigel Olsen, who was killed in action in Afghanistan, at the Salem City Cemetery in Salem, Utah, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. More than half of Utahns agree that it’s time to end America’s involvement in a war that has cost more than $2 trillion and killed 2,218 U.S. men and women in uniform. To date, 53 Utahns have lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq.(Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News via AP)

Withdrawal complex question for slain soldiers’ families

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Cody Towse didn’t want to miss the war. Already a volunteer firefighter and EMT in Elk Ridge, Utah County, he joined the Army shortly after graduating from Salem Hills High School because it assured him a position as a medic. Assigned to Fort Bliss of […]

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FILE - In this Saturday, July 19, 2014, file photo, a memorial for Eric Garner rests on the pavement near the site of his death,  in the Staten Island borough of New York. In 2014, the world witnessed a New York police officer put Garner in a chokehold while arresting him for allegedly selling illegal cigarettes in Staten Island. The video, which would go on to set precedence for the documentation of police brutality, highlighted the use of a chokehold by the police department, which had banned the method in November 1993. But unlike in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing in 2020, little to no legislative change was spurred from Garner's death. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

George Floyd Killing Prompts Some States To Limit Or Ban Chokeholds

DENVER (AP) — Democratic Rep. Leslie Herod had no luck persuading her colleagues in the Colorado Legislature to ban police from using chokeholds after the death of a 23-year-old black man in suburban Aurora, Colo. in 2019. She couldn’t gather enough support to even introduce a police reform bill that […]

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Airport Property in Small Town on Arizona-Utah Border Grows

Airport Property in Small Town on Arizona-Utah Border Grows

COLORADO CITY, Ariz. (AP) —The airport grounds in Colorado City, Ariz. just increased. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently transferred about one-quarter of a square mile (.5 square kilometers) to the Arizona-Utah border town. The move allows the town to comply with Federal Aviation Administration standards for safety and […]

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Utah Woman Gets 2 Years in Prison in $1.6M Embezzlement Case

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman was sentenced to more than two years in a federal prison after she pleaded guilty to fraud in the embezzlement of more than $1.6 million from a meat processing business. Christine Gillins, 53, pleaded guilty in January to one count of wire fraud after prosecutors […]

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