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Month: July 2023

New License Plate Benefits Great Salt Lake Preservation

New License Plate Benefits Great Salt Lake Preservation

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A new Utah license plate will benefit preservation of the Great Salt Lake. The plate has a five-character license plate serial in blue on a white background, Utah in red lettering above, and “Restore, Preserve, Protect” in blue letters across the bottom. On the left […]

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Late Start To Monsoon Season In Utah

Late Start To Monsoon Season In Utah

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Monsoon season has begun late in Utah this year, bringing stormy weather to the state. The monsoonal weather pattern is a frequent summer occurrence, as moisture from Mexico makes its way up into Utah and the Southwestern United States. The surge of moisture brings in […]

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State Auditor’s Office Has New Tool To Check Property Values

State Auditor’s Office Has New Tool To Check Property Values

(Salt Lake City, UT) — The State Auditor’s Office has a new tool that allows people to help determine the value of their property. The tool that launched Wednesday is PropertyValues-dot-Utah-dot-gov and it includes an interactive map that allows users to drill down into neighborhoods to show values assessed by […]

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July poised to be hottest month in recorded history: Experts

July poised to be hottest month in recorded history: Experts

Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Amid record-setting heat waves across the globe, July 2023 is poised to become the hottest month ever recorded, according to a report by Copernicus, the European climate change service, and the World Meteorological Organization. So far, the first three weeks of July have […]

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Mother of Uvalde victim runs for mayor in special election

Mother of Uvalde victim runs for mayor in special election

Nicco Quinones/ABC News (UVALDE, Texas) — Kimberly Mata-Rubio — mother of victim Alexandria “Lexi” Rubio who was killed in the Robb Elementary School massacre last year — announced Thursday she is running for mayor of the community. Her daughter was among the 19 fourth graders and two teachers who were […]

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Arizona teen missing since 2019 found ‘safe, happy and healthy’ in small Montana town

Arizona teen missing since 2019 found ‘safe, happy and healthy’ in small Montana town

Glendale police (NEW YORK) — A 14-year-old Arizona girl who mysteriously went missing in 2019 has been found “safe, happy and healthy” in Montana, authorities said. Alicia Navarro, now 18, went alone to a police department in a small Montana town near the Canadian border to identify herself and ask […]

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Delray Beach police release images after unidentified woman’s remains found in multiple suitcases

Delray Beach police release images after unidentified woman’s remains found in multiple suitcases

Delray Beach Police Department (NEW YORK) — Florida authorities have released images of luggage in which a woman’s body was found earlier this month as well as an artist’s rendering of the unknown victim. “Please take a close look at the images because the victim has not been identified,” the […]

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Deaths due to extreme heat at national parks increasing, data from the National Parks Service shows

Deaths due to extreme heat at national parks increasing, data from the National Parks Service shows

Gaj Rudolf / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — National parks aficionados are making their annual summer pilgrimage to their favorite gateway to the great outdoors, but the extreme heat that has been plaguing much of the U.S. is making that trek more dangerous. Despite the unrelenting heat that has been […]

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Girl, 11, arrested over false report of ‘kidnapped’ friend in online challenge gone wrong

Girl, 11, arrested over false report of ‘kidnapped’ friend in online challenge gone wrong

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An 11-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with a felony after falsely reporting that her friend had been kidnapped when she was inspired by an online challenge, police say. Thinking it “would be funny,” according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office in Florida — […]

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How popular are legacy college admissions preferences? Harvard scrutiny prompts debate

How popular are legacy college admissions preferences? Harvard scrutiny prompts debate

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Harvard University’s legacy admissions policy has come under scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, but it is not the only university to give preference to the children of alumni. Some of the top universities in the country — including […]

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