Utah News
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Brian Head -
The Brian Head Fire in Southern Utah has forced over 1,500 people from their homes in and around the popular ski resort and fishing lake. The wildfire has now grown to cover 49,000 acres, fed by gusting winds and low humidity.
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A new bill introduced in Utah would allow law enforcement to shoot down drones in some situations and would also place limits on drone activity.
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Known primarily for his role as Nakoma in the 1974 film and subsequent TV series, 'The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams,' this 65-year-old actor of Native American descent is enjoying a new lease of life making movies with actor and writer, John Schneider.
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Jensen -
A cliff-side in Utah has offered paleontologists a precious glimpse into the age of the earliest dinosaurs, and the scientists have unearthed some amazing fossils.
The fossils include a pterosaur that was likely the largest flying reptile of its time.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
The death toll from flash floods that have struck the western state of Utah rose to 15 with five people still missing, authorities said.
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By AFP
Washington -
Eight people were killed and five were listed as missing after flash floods struck a town in the western state of Utah overnight Monday, state officials said early Tuesday.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Utah became the only US state to restore the firing squad as a method of execution on Monday, as its governor Gary Herbert signed a bill on the emotive issue into law.
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By AFP
Salt Lake City -
New legislation to protect gays went into effect in Utah, after approval of a compromise bill backed by the state's homosexual community and religious advocates, including its powerful Mormon bloc.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Utah could become the only U.S. state to restore the firing squad as a method of execution after lawmakers approved a bill on the emotive issue.
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Anaheim -
Several employees at Disneyland, Anaheim, California's iconic themepark have been diagnosed with measles, health officials confirmed on Tuesday. This brings the total number of cases to 18 in the county.
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Two people from Utah and seven from California all came down with a case of the measles, and they all apparently contracted the disease from the same place. All the visitors had visited California's Disneyland between Dec. 15 and Dec. 20.
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Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay — a self-professed “back porch folk duo” — are witnessing their childhood dreams come to fruition with the success of “California (Cast Iron Soul)” and the re-release of the classic Jamestown Revival album 'Utah.'
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Salt Lake City -
Having previously discontinued the use of firing squad executions in Utah, a legislative committee has endorsed a bill that might bring the practice back.
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Moab -
Unicycling probably is not the first, or even the last, thing that comes to mind when thinking about extreme sports, but a recent video proves the sport can not only be extreme, but death defying as well.
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Moab -
125 million years ago, in what is now Moab Utah, dinosaurs, crocodiles, and ancient birds walked through squelchy mud, leaving footprints behind to become immortalized in a trackway that will soon be open to the public.
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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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Utah Image
Arches National Park in Utah Paraflyer
A scene from the video World's Largest Rope Swing, showing a man swinging through the Corona Arch in Utah YouTube screenshot/devinsupertramp
Riding celebrity steeds on Antelope Island State Park
The area where the Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City, Utah Courtesy Sundance Institute/Jemal Countess
Don Shanks John Schneider Studios
The Brian Head Fire in Utah has grown to over 43,000 acres, while the Frye Fire in Arizona is now 39 percent contained. State of Utah Wildland Fire Hotshot Crew
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 With permission by Reuters /
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 With permission by Reuters / Jim Urquhart
The Henderson's of Hurricane, Utah have decided there will be no gifts at Christmas this year. screen grab
Who knew there are over 700 head of free-roaming bison on Antelope Island State Park?
Bears Ears National Monument is home to more than 100,000 American Indian archaeological sites. Tim Peterson, Grand Canyon Trust
Mayor Mike Winder (L) of West Valley City, UT WVCPR
Sundance Film Festival. Kevinthompson3221
Salt Lake Police Department
Zach and Jonathan of Jamestown Revival Republic/JR
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