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Month: March 2017

Grantsville police: 1 person found dead after apartment fire

GRANTSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Police are investigating a death in an apartment fire in Grantsville. They say firefighters responded to the blaze in an apartment unit about 10 p.m. Saturday and found the unit fully engulfed in flames. They later discovered one person dead in the apartment. The name, age […]

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Study of northern Utah skies aims to curb pollution problem

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Researchers are conducting a $2 million study to help people better understand what leads to northern Utah’s winter inversions that create a brown, murky haze of air pollution that engulfs the Salt Lake City metro area. They are using aircraft and advanced instruments to determine […]

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Colorado man Dies after Crashing His Motorcycle in Utah

CASTLE VALLEY, Utah (AP) — The Utah Highway Patrol says a Colorado man is dead after a motorcycle crash in Castle Valley. They say 56-year-old Albert Hughes of Grand Junction was riding his motorcycle along state Route 128 about 3:30 p.m. Saturday when it went off the right side of […]

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Republicans in Maine, Utah want Trump to Undo Monuments

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican leaders in Maine and Utah are asking President Donald Trump to step into uncharted territory and rescind national monument designations made by his predecessor. The Antiquities Act of 1906 doesn’t give the president power to undo a designation, and no president has ever taken such […]

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Cedar City Crash Occurs Sunday Afternoon

CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP)-Per the official Twitter of UDOT Traffic, a crash occurred Sunday afternoon on the north end of Cedar City. The incident occurred on southbound Interstate 15 at milepost 62, or the northernmost exit to Cedar City along I-15. The estimated clearance time is around 3:56 pm MST. […]

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Hurricane Man Gets Probation For White House Threats

(St. George, UT) — A Hurricane man who threatened on Instagram to blow up the White House will not serve any time in jail. David Grant Torrey will instead serve 36 months of probation. In early January, Torrey left threatening comments on the White House Instagram page, saying he would […]

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5 Utah counties warned about possible snowmelt flooding

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Portions of five northern Utah counties are being warned about the possibility of weekend flooding, amid forecasts of rising temperatures melting heavy snow. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Cache, Rich and the northeastern sections of Weber, Box Elder and Morgan counties were under a […]

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Fugitive Runs Into SWAT Team Training In Provo

(Provo, UT) — A wanted fugitive is now behind bars after running into Provo SWAT officers while they were training. Police say the man ran from Adult Probation and Parole agents Thursday afternoon near Provost Elementary School. The man then ran right through a crowd of 30 SWAT officers with […]

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Gov. Herbert Won’t Oppose Raising Sales Tax On Groceries

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Gary Herbert says he won’t stand in the way of a plan by lawmakers to raise the sales tax on food, just as long as steps are created to help the poor. Republican lawmakers are now working to finalize a possible tax reform package, […]

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Lawmakers OK bill allowing lawsuit if kids are hurt by porn

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers have signed off on a proposal that would allow pornography distributors to be sued if a minor exposed to the material says they were hurt by it. Calling porn addictive and harmful, bill sponsor Republican Sen. Todd Weiler told members of a House […]

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