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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
A vaudeville house tweaked into artist vestibules? Serving coffee instead of cinema? Salt Lake City leaders are spit-balling ideas on what to do with their newly purchased Utah Theater -- both short-term and long -- in the spirit of activating Main Street.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Senate committee on Tuesday OK'd a ban on cell phone use by teen drivers when they're behind the wheel. Sen. Ross Romero, D-Salt Lake City, proposed the ban after he said he heard from many youngsters upset about friends being killed or injured in accidents.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
A male Amur leopard at Utah's Hogle Zoo will get a high-tech root canal to fix a cracked, partially missing tooth. Zoo officials say the procedure is scheduled for Saturday at the new L.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Being a Boy Scout has changed since Kip Maxwell received his Eagle Scout award in 1959, the first in his newly-founded troop to do so. While pigeon and rabbit raising might no longer earn merit badges, like they did when the 63-year-old North Salt Lake resident was involved with Troop 220,
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
The former president of the only facility that can dispose of low-level radioactive waste for 36 states wants to open a new disposal facility in Utah.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Utah House passed a bill Tuesday that would ban the sale of nicotine-laced candies. Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, said that while the candies are not currently in Utah, he expects they are on their way and they pose a threat to children.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Calan Olsen, 17, of Ephraim and Amber Barron, 14, of Riverton today were named Utah's top two youth volunteers for 2010 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism. The awards program, now in its 15th year, is conducted by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
SALT LAKE CITY — Still debating ideas for the hefty task of recommending public education's budget cuts, lawmakers...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Former child television star Gary Coleman has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge related to a domestic violence incident last April in Utah.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
Winter storms have dumped on southwestern Utah but skimped in the north, and it appears the spring runoff, for now, will do the same. In his February runoff-assessment presentation, National Weather Service hydrologist Brian McInerney said the forecast is for twice as much snowmelt than normal
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
Child safety concerns and states' rights collided Monday in the Legislature over Rep. Chris Herrod's proposal to relax requirements for some children to be strapped into child safety seats.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Child booster seats and states' rights collided Monday in the Legislature over Rep. Chris Herrod's proposal to relax requirements for some children to be strapped in safety seats.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Former child television star Gary Coleman is scheduled for appearance in a Utah court. Coleman was arrested Jan. 24 at his home in Santaquin on a warrant for failing to appear in court on a domestic violence charge.
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
Constructive Feedback: "The 'Bitter Black Coffee Movement' - Questions They Should Ask Themselves About The Tea Party" The conservative blogger in metro Atlanta, Ga. zeroes in on black liberal critics of the tea party movement. He wonders: why aren't they more focused on organically building up and better managing black communities? : "You mask your activism as 'concern for 'White Supremacy'...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Felons could get a shorter stay in Salt Lake County's jail if the Utah Legislature doesn't pay more for state inmates. The County Council has signed a resolution -- and ordered an ordinance drafted -- that could release state convicts early from jail if the Legislature doesn't provide enough
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priyankam77ke | 02/08/2010
PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) –"Four Lions" will roar with laughter on the select-site circuit. A "Spinal Tap"-style sendup of British jihadists, filmmaker Chris Morris has hilariously lampooned young men who confuse their ideology and religion with video games and set out to blast themselves into martyrdom. Admittedly, jihadists are not what most people would think of as being funny, but Morris...
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olesiai1ar0 | 02/08/2010
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) –When Amir Bar-Lev first looked into the story of U.S. football star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman, he was intrigued that the apparent steely-jawed war hero was an intellectually curious man who harbored doubts about the U.S. war effort. "Then I realized I was doing the same thing to Pat Tillman that everybody had done to Pat Tillman, which is to try to appropriate him and shear...
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calliahw7k9 | 02/07/2010
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) –When Amir Bar-Lev first looked into the story of U.S. football star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman, he was intrigued that the apparent steely-jawed war hero was an intellectually curious man who harbored doubts about the U.S. war effort. "Then I realized I was doing the same thing to Pat Tillman that everybody had done to Pat Tillman, which is to try to appropriate him and shear...