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Sheriff candidate says police helped opponent’s campaign

Sheriff candidate says police helped opponent’s campaign

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A candidate for Utah County sheriff has filed a complaint with election officials after seeing video he claims shows a police officer hanging a campaign sign for his opponent. The complaint filed by retired U.S. Marshal Jim Phelps last week says a uniformed Pleasant Grove […]

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Fire officials say 1 dead, 1 injured in Provo fire

Fire officials say 1 dead, 1 injured in Provo fire

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Fire officials say one person died and another person was injured in a fire in Provo. Provo Fire and Rescue said in a Facebook post that the fire was reported early Friday morning. Provo Fire and Rescue says one person made it out of the fire […]

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Navajo judge won’t toss claims of abuse in Mormon program

Navajo judge won’t toss claims of abuse in Mormon program

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Navajo Nation judge is refusing to dismiss lawsuits claiming Native American children were sexually abused while enrolled in a Mormon church foster program. Judge Carol Perry said in the ruling released Thursday the cases should be heard in Navajo court. The allegations were said […]

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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. A report released Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill finds that companies selling some of the most lucrative prescription painkillers funneled millions of dollars to advocacy groups that in turn promoted the medications’ use. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, contributed the most money to the groups, funneling $4.7 million to organizations and physicians from 2012 through last year, according to the report. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Utah files lawsuit against OxyContin drugmaker Purdue

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has filed a lawsuit accusing manufacturers of the opioid OxyContin of creating a drug abuse epidemic in the state. Attorney General Sean Reyes said Thursday that drugmaker Purdue Pharma misrepresented the risk opioids posed and the likelihood of addiction, amounting to fraud, negligence and […]

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Utility seeks bids for alternative energy projects in Utah

Utility seeks bids for alternative energy projects in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A utility company is seeking proposals for the construction of new alternative energy projects in Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Rocky Mountain Power said Tuesday it is looking for bids for projects generating a total of 308,000 megawatt hours of power — enough for about 34,000 […]

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Romney says he voted for his wife for president

Romney says he voted for his wife for president

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney says he voted for his wife for president in 2016. Romney, a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah, told the Deseret News on Wednesday that he cast a write-in vote for Ann Romney even though he knew the choice wouldn’t go anywhere. Still, […]

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Utah prosecutors looking into alleged inhumane pig slaughter

Utah prosecutors looking into alleged inhumane pig slaughter

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah authorities are investigating concerns that a butcher shop inhumanely killed two pigs. Tooele County Attorney Scott Broadhead said Thursday his office is looking into Tooele Valley Meats after receiving word of a U.S. Department of Agriculture report referred by animal welfare activists People for […]

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Crash Near Meadow

Crash Near Meadow

MILLARD COUNTY, Utah-Per the official Twitter of UDOT, a significant crash occurred on Interstate 15 five miles south of Meadow. UDOT confirmed the incident struck at 11:58 am MDT and was at milepost 153 on southbound I-15. It’s significant enough that a clearance time of 1:15 pm this afternoon has […]

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Deep-red Utah pushes reform to parole, probation

Deep-red Utah pushes reform to parole, probation

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Deeply conservative Utah has become a focal point for an effort to reduce the number of people on probation and parole. State corrections leaders and the chief prosecutor of Utah’s most populous county signed on to a national push this month encouraging officials to use […]

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Report: Medicaid spending per capita in Utah is lowest in US

Report: Medicaid spending per capita in Utah is lowest in US

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A recent report says Medicaid spending per capita in Utah is the lowest in the nation. The Deseret News reports a study by Utah Foundation, a nonpartisan policy research nonprofit in Salt Lake City, says $703 in combined state and federal Medicaid dollars were spent per capita […]

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