Utah News
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Moab -
Sharon Brussell was enjoying a relaxing day and leisurely moving down a bike path at a nearby park. This normal circumstance led to her falling in an unexpected pit of quicksand where she was stuck for 14 hours until she was rescued.
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A Mountain Lion that had been wandering around a parking lot at a shopping center in Utah died after being tranquilized and captured. The animal had been shot with the tranquilizer to keep it from attacking customers.
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Sandy -
Shoppers in Sandy, Utah, got a bit more than they bargained for when a mountain lion showed up at a shopping center in this Salt Lake City suburb. Fortunately, the cat was not aggressive, although some shoppers admitted they were a little nervous.
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Boulder -
A leftist Colorado county this week began issuing same-sex marriage licenses. They don’t call it the People’s Republic of Boulder for nothing.
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Heber City -
A group of female students at a Utah high school are upset and demanding an answer as to why the school chose to alter their yearbook photos without telling them and also why this rule wasn't applied to everyone.
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Salt Lake City -
A federal judge on Monday ordered Utah officials to recognize more than 1,000 same-sex marriages performed in the staunchly Mormon state late last year and early this year before the U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency stay halting such unions.
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Salt Lake City -
If there’s one thing that can certainly spoil the mood on a day of matrimony, it’s the older couple engaging in sexual activities on the church lawn for the wedding party and attendees to witness.
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Salt Lake City -
A Utah truck driver kept two women as sex slaves in his semitrailer for months at a time while traveling the nation, raping them, filing down their teeth and brutally beating them into submission, police said.
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Orem -
A mother who was disgusted with t-shirts for sale at a mall featuring prints of nearly naked women on them, decided to do something about it: Buy them all.
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With European manufacturers boycotting the sale of the drugs normally used to painlessly execute prisoners in the United States, some politicians are panicking. Now they are looking for alternative methods to kill.
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Salt Lake City -
The office of Utah's Republican governor announced on Wednesday that the state will not recognize the unions of more than 1,300 same-sex couples who wed during the brief period the state was forced to lift a ban on gay marriage.
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A gun manufacturer in West Valley City, Utah recently turned down a $15 million deal to supply Pakistan with precision rifles. The main concern was that the guns could eventually be used against U.S. troops.
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A Utah man is starving himself in protest against same-sex marriage, which was recently legalized in the staunchly conservative state following a federal judge's ruling.
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Washington -
Utah has taken its fight against LGBT marriage equality to the highest court in the nation, asking Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to suspend a lower court's ruling permitting same-sex couples to legally wed in the staunchly conservative state.
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Denver -
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby shook the world by declaring Utah's gay marriage ban unconstitutional last Friday. On Monday, he denied the state of Utah's request to temporarily suspend his ruling as the appeals process plays out.
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Salt Lake City -
Elated same-sex couples are being granted marriage licenses in Utah's capital and largest city after a federal judge ruled that the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.
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Police arrested a man, Timothy Vafeades, a truck driver from Utah, for holding a teen girl captive and sexually abused her for months.
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Salt Lake City -
Chandler Webb died one day after receiving a flu shot for his Mormon mission and died. A month later, his family is convinced, the flu shot killed their son.
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Ogden -
A Utah man is accused of raping his wife's ex-husband in an extortion case that has Riverdale police baffled and seeking answers.
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Salt Lake City -
Are you old enough to remember the 50's "classic" Who wears short shorts, We wear short shorts? Well, one Dad wore short shorts in order to embarrass his daughter and make her wear more modest clothing, and it seems to have worked.
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A group of paleontologists unearthed a new long-horned dinosaur in Utah, the first of its type to be found in the south of the United States.
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Manti -
Kaziah Hancock is a patriot with a difference. A skilled artist living in Utah, she paints portraits of sons and daughters who have been killed in action as a memorial for their families.
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Salt Lake City -
Elisabeth Malloy, 43, had a brush with death when she was trapped under an avalanche. Rescued by her boyfriend Adam Morrey they have being sharing their amazing story.
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Spring City -
Councilman Neil Sorensen of Spring City, Utah has proposed a requirement that all households in town have a firearm and be able to use it effectively.
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Women would not be allowed to get abortions based on whether they want a girl or a boy under a legislation that a Utah lawmaker has proposed.
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A Utah teen shot himself dead in front of shocked classmates on Thursday, reportedly after years of bullying and mistreatment.
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Salt Lake City -
The boys can run all they want, but they won't be catching 9-year-old phenom running back Sam Gordon, the only girl in the Salt Lake City pee wee football league.
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Lehi -
A woman was observed potty training her twin girls at a table in a popular Utah eatery. Another patron took a photo, which later made the social media rounds before being taken down due to policy violations.
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Salt Lake City -
A Salt Lake City man decided to use his obituary as a place to make several confessions of things he'd done during his lifetime.
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Salt Lake City -
A baby golden eagle survived a wildfire near Saratoga Springs, Utah. The survival of the baby eagle has been described as "miraculous." Wildlife rehabilitation officials have named him "Phoenix" after the mythical creature reborn from the ashes.
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Mayor Mike Winder (L) of West Valley City, UT
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The area where the Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City, Utah
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The American bald eagle have made a remarkable comeback from near extinction in the 1960's.
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Marina Gomberg (L) kisses her partner Elenor Heyborne as they get married in front of the Salt Lake County Clerks office in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 20, 2013. A federal judge struck down Utah's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional
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A scene from the video World's Largest Rope Swing, showing a man swinging through the Corona Arch in Utah
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A view of Escalante Desert in Utah
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Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center located in Bluffdale, Utah
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Who knew there are over 700 head of free-roaming bison on Antelope Island State Park?
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Running back Samantha Gordon
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The welcoming home fire burns 24/7 outside HOME2 Suites in Layton, Utah.
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Arches National Park in Utah
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Salt Lake Police Department
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Sundance Film Festival.
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Natalie Dicou (L) and her partner Nicole Christensen, and James Goodman (2nd R) and his partner Jeffrey Gomez (R), wait to get married at the Salt Lake County Clerks office in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 20, 2013
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Kaziah Hancock paints portraits of sons & daughters killed in action as a memorial for their families.
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Riding celebrity steeds on Antelope Island State Park
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