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New Navajo Nation cancer center cuts patients’ travel time

New Navajo Nation cancer center cuts patients’ travel time

TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Colon cancer took a heavy toll on Loren McCabe’s family. His great-grandmother was diagnosed too late to fight it. His grandfather didn’t want to travel for treatment because he felt better protected within the Navajo Nation’s four sacred mountains. McCabe’s mother died, too, after choosing […]

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Report: Utah will be much more diverse in 2065

Report: Utah will be much more diverse in 2065

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will be significantly more diverse in 2065, according to projections in a new state report released Wednesday. Figures from the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute show that slightly more than 1 in 3 Utah residents will be racial and ethnic minorities, […]

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Police: Man shot while trying to intervene in argument

Police: Man shot while trying to intervene in argument

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Police in a Salt Lake City suburb say a man was shot and seriously wounded while attempting to intervene in an argument. West Valley City police say a man involved in the argument Monday night on a street near Bangerter Highway pulled out a […]

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Archie Archuleta, Hispanic activist in Utah, is dead.

Archie Archuleta, Hispanic activist in Utah, is dead.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials reacted Saturday with expressions of respect and sadness to the death Friday night of Robert “Archie” Archuleta, a leader of the state’s Hispanic community and prominent civil rights activist. He was 88. Archuleta was former president of the Utah Coalition of La Raza, […]

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Salt Lake City police: Suspect sought in fatal stabbing

Salt Lake City police: Suspect sought in fatal stabbing

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City police are looking for a suspect following a stabbing that left a woman dead and a man hospitalized in critical condition. Police say the victims were found Wednesday night behind a trash container in the vicinity of a transient camp and that […]

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Utah police: ’98 death may be tied to Colorado serial killer

Utah police: ’98 death may be tied to Colorado serial killer

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah authorities are reviving a 1998 cold case they say may be connected to a convicted Colorado serial killer. Investigators said Tuesday that circumstantial evidence points to Scott Kimball. State Bureau of Investigation Agent Brian Davis says that includes a complicated rope knot like one […]

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