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Third Man From Utah Charged in US Capitol Breach

Third Man From Utah Charged in US Capitol Breach

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A third man from Utah was charged Wednesday in connection with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January. Brady Knowlton, of St. George, was identified by a tipster through photos and video taken on Jan. 6, when supporters of then-President Donald Trump broke into the Capitol building […]

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Salt Lake to Keep Mask Mandate After Utah Lifts State Rule

Salt Lake to Keep Mask Mandate After Utah Lifts State Rule

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City will continue its mask mandate after it is lifted statewide April 10, the mayor said Wednesday, though the rest of the county decided not to require masks and the city’s rule may violate a new state law. Democrat Erin Mendenhall said keeping the […]

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Wednesday covid-19 report for Utah/Wasatch County

Wednesday covid-19 report for Utah/Wasatch County

SALT LAKE CITY-Wednesday’s covid-19 report for Utah and Wasatch County. Utahns fully vaccinated: 599,972: 18 [17.995] percent of Utahns. Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 6,646 (18.4 percent of Wasatch County residents) Utah recovery percentage: 97.1 [97.14] percent (377,312-388,426) Wasatch County recovery percentage. 97.3 [97.27] percent (4,392-4,515) Utah active case percentage: […]

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Ogden drive-by shooting plea bargain nets man three prison terms

Ogden drive-by shooting plea bargain nets man three prison terms

OGDEN (AP)— Tuesday, a judge sentenced a Salt Lake City man to three suspended jail terms for a drive-by shooting in Ogden last winter. Authorities confirmed 26-year-old Alberto Delgado was a passenger in a pickup truck who fired seven shots at a house in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue […]

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Tuesday Utah/Wasatch County covid-19 report

Tuesday Utah/Wasatch County covid-19 report

SALT LAKE CITY-Tuesday’s Utah/Wasatch County covid-19 report: Utahns fully vaccinated: 579,627 (17.4 percent of all Utahns) Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 6,398 (17.7 percent of Wasatch County residents) Utah recovery percentage: 97.1 percent (376,620-387,814) Wasatch County recovery percentage: 97.5 [97.46] percent (4,387-4,501) Utah active case percentage: 2.3 [2.34] percent (9,057-387,814) […]

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US Interior Secretary to Highlight COVID-19 Aid for Tribes

US Interior Secretary to Highlight COVID-19 Aid for Tribes

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is making her first official trip to her home state Tuesday to meet with Indigenous leaders, following her confirmation to the cabinet of President Joe Biden. Haaland will host a roundtable discussion in New Mexico with the All Pueblo Council of Governors […]

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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)

Nevada Farmers and Conservationists Balk at ‘Water Banking’

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Rural water users are panicking over a proposal to create a market for the sale and purchase of water rights in Nevada, unconvinced by arguments that the concept would encourage conservation. Lawmakers on Monday weighed whether so-called “water banking” would be preferable to prevailing water law […]

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Judge schedules trial in 2016 death of Utah inmate

Judge schedules trial in 2016 death of Utah inmate

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a trial over whether a Utah county is liable for civil damages after an inmate bled to death in a jail cell in 2016. U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish in Salt Lake City set a trial start date of Jan. 24, […]

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Monday covid-19 report for Utah/Wasatch County

Monday covid-19 report for Utah/Wasatch County

Monday’s covid-19 report for Utah/Wasatch County Utahns fully vaccinated: 565,539 (16.9 percent of Utahns) Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 6,343 (17.5 percent of Wasatch County residents) Utah recovery percentage: 97.1 [97.06] percent (376,139-387,514) Wasatch County recovery percentage: 97.4 [97.44] percent (4,382-4,497) Utah active case percentage: 2.4 [2.38] percent (9,242-387,514) Wasatch […]

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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 dads to be required to pay half of pregnancy costs

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Biological fathers in Utah will be legally required to pay half of a woman’s out-of-pocket pregnancy costs under a new law unique to the state that critics say doesn’t do enough to adequately address maternal healthcare needs. The bill’s sponsor has presented the measure as […]

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