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Investigation under way in police shooting of Utah boy, 13

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in Utah are investigating the shooting of a 13-year-old autistic boy by police in the Salt Lake City area. Police said they were called to a home in Glendale Friday night with a report of a boy who had threatened people with a weapon. […]

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Hard Freeze Warning

Hard Freeze Warning issued September 08 at 3:​23​AM MDT until September 09 at 9:​00​AM MDT by NWS Saltlake …HARD FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM MDT WEDNESDAY… * WHAT…Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 expected. * WHERE…Wasatch Mountain Valleys and Sanpete/Sevier Valleys. * WHEN…From midnight […]

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Weather Advisory

Red Flag Warning issued September 06 at 10:​26​PM MDT until September 07 at 9:​00​PM MDT by NWS Saltlake …RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT MONDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 479…480… 481…482…483…484…488…489…493…494 AND 496… * AFFECTED AREA…Fire Weather Zone 479 Wasatch […]

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Suspected arson on the Manti-La Sal National Forest

Authorities are seeking information regarding a string of suspicious fires that occurred in Sanpete County, between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., on September 6. Eleven fires were started along Skyline Drive between South Tent Mountain and Potter’s Canyon. Fire fighters have been able to contain all the fires before the […]

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Board of Education adds funding for Utah students internet

Board of Education adds funding for Utah students internet

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Board of Education has added $1 million to extend a competitive grant program intended to connect more households to the internet as more students are learning remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. KSL-TV reported that the board voted Thursday to add funding from […]

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Utah police frustrated with anti-law enforcement sentiment

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police groups in Utah have called for The Salt Lake Tribune to apologize after it published an editorial cartoon implying white supremacists have infiltrated law enforcement. Police supporters staged a protest outside The Salt Lake Tribune’s printing press Thursday night after the Utah Sheriffs’ Association […]

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Voting in person Nov. 3? Expect drive-thrus, sports arenas

Voting in person Nov. 3? Expect drive-thrus, sports arenas

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Voting will look a little different this November. States are turning to stadiums, drive-thrus and possibly even movie theaters as safe options for in-person polling places amid the coronavirus pandemic and fears about mail-in ballots failing to arrive in time to count. The primary season […]

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Biologists survey wildfire destruction on tortoise habitat

Biologists survey wildfire destruction on tortoise habitat

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Biologists in southern Utah are surveying the damage left by a wildfire that scorched large swaths of land set aside for rare tortoise habitat in southern Utah. The Spectrum reports that on a recent day in late August, they fanned out on a landscape that […]

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Colleges combating coronavirus turn to stinky savior: sewage

Colleges combating coronavirus turn to stinky savior: sewage

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As colleges grapple with the coronavirus, institutions across the country are turning campus sewage into a public health tool. At least two schools in Utah and Arizona have quarantined hundreds of students after tests showed the presence of genetic material from the virus in wastewater. […]

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Utah aims to be prepared for COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Utah aims to be prepared for COVID-19 vaccine distribution

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert says Utah will aim to be prepared to distribute a coronavirus vaccine once it becomes available, a week after the federal government told states to be ready for distribution by Nov. 1. At a weekly briefing Thursday, Herbert did not clarify whether […]

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