• The Oldest Stalest Chocolate Ever Has Been Found in Utah

  Posted // 2013-06-18 - Everyone has encountered old, mystery chocolate. Sometimes it’s leftover Halloween candy from three years ago. Sometimes it’s a hardly-recognizable M&M found in an old coat pocket. And sometimes, as is the case with archaeologists in southern Utah, it’s over 1,300 years old and it's found in a stash of ancient pottery. The chocolate residue, ...

• Pat Bagley Editorial Cartoonists Convention

  Brace for scrutiny, Salt Lakers: The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is holding its 2013 convention here at the end of the month (June ...

• Glad You Asked Parquet Courts Jamestown Revival and More

  Parquet Courts will be performing at The Urban Lounge this evening. Pentagraham Crackers and Koala Temple are also on the bill. The show starts at 9. Tickets are ...

• Doctors make breakthrough in Type 1 diabetes cure

  SALT LAKE CITY — New information about diabetes could be life-changing for the millions who live with it, especially those battling Type 1 diabetes. Doctors at Boston Children's hospital have identified the root cause of Type 1 diabetes and hope to use it to better treat it and possibly find a cure. "To find a cure, we really have to locate those cells that are attacking ...

• Jordan School District says it needs 19 new schools in next decade

  HERRIMAN &#8212 Nail guns and wood saws can be heard all day long in Herriman's south side. Home construction seems to be a booming business once again in this small city in the southern part of the Salt Lake valley. "We're busy," said a man with a nail gun, making sure his 2x4's measured together perfectly. A man with A wood saw would probably say something ...

• Woman buys fake iPhone 5 police warn against similar scams

  OREM — What seemed like a good deal on an iPhone 5 for an Orem woman turned into a great deal for a scam artist. Someone approached the woman in a parking lot and offered her a new iPhone for a good price. She found out the hard way that just because it looks like an iPhone doesn't necessarily mean it is. "Don't fall for this scam," said Lt. Craig Martinez with ...

• Man accused of terrorism-related crimes in Utah Idaho gets new lawyer

  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - An Uzbek refugee accused of terrorism-related crimes in Idaho and Utah has a new lawyer whose resume includes successfully defending a man accused of murdering a federal agent and helping free a Saudi college student charged with working for a group funneling money to terrorists. A federal judge appointed Charles Peterson to take over Fazliddin Kurbanov's defense. ...

• Gwen Moore However Inarticulate I Think Miss Utah Was On To Something

  While speaking on the House of Representatives floor Tuesday during debate on the 20-week abortion ban, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said Miss Utah Marisa Powell may have been on to something with ...

• Woman dies after Tooele Valley skydiving accident

  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A skydiver died after trying to avoid an obstacle and taking a hard landing at Tooele Valley Airport, officials said Tuesday. The 30-year-old woman was found unconscious but breathing Sunday with head, neck and leg injuries, said Tooele County Chief Deputy Sheriff Duke North. She was taken to University of Utah Hospital for surgery but didn't survive, he said The ...

• State now purchasing zero-emission electric vehicles

  SALT LAKE CITY — As air pollution intensified in northern Utah Tuesday, the Division of Air Quality asked everyone to limit driving. The ozone gas didn't quite reach the threshold for Utah's first red action alert of the summer season, but it came close, making it an officially yellow day. But the state's not just asking folks to drive less. It's also purchasing ...

• String of car burglaries leads to arrest of 19-year-old man

  KAYSVILLE — Davis County Sheriff's deputies stumbled onto a car burglary ring, after one of the suspected thieves struck a little too close to home. Detectives said Tuesday 19-year-old Matthew Robert King was staying with a friend in Fruit Heights and started taking interest in the friend's safe. The next day, King was gone and so were the thousands of dollars inside the cash ...

• Miss Utah gets chance to fix pageant answer flub

  NEW YORK &#8212 Miss Utah USA got a second chance Tuesday morning to answer a question she stumbled over Sunday night during the Miss USA pageant. Marissa Powell, Miss Utah ...

• What Miss Utah Shouldve Said About The Pay Gap

  Miss Utah USA 2013 Marissa Powell Photo by Georgina Vaughan, courtesy MissUtahUSA.com By now, you've probably heard or seen the garbled answer Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, gave to this question during Sunday's the Miss USA ...

• Former Utah nanny sentenced to four years in prison may face extradition to Belgium

  Belgium officials sentenced a former Utah nanny to four years in prison for abusing infants. She may face ...

• Tremonton police officer arrested for investigation of child porn

  TREMONTON - A veteran officer with the Tremonton Police Department has been arrested for investigation of sexual exploitation of a minor. Jeremy Rose, an officer with the department for 12 years, was arrested Friday. He was originally booked into the Davis County Jail and held until the Utah Attorney General's Office could transfer him to the Box Elder County Jail, where the charge ...

• Possible stadium expansion would force move of Olympic icons

  SALT LAKE CITY — The legacy of the 2002 Olympics will always remain in Salt Lake City, but University of Utah and city officials are in the process of balancing what remains of that legacy with what they hope to accomplish in the future. "The University of Utah has moved into the Pac-12, and with that is all kinds of excitement and change," said Gordon Wilson, assistant vice ...

• 10 people indicted in multi-state marijuana ring

  SALT LAKE CITY - Ten people have been federally indicted in a major marijuana operation stretching from Utah to California. The federal grand jury indictment was filed and sealed in 2011 and unsealed just last week. Joshua Wayne Cooper, Tyler Robert Cooper, Jonathan Isaac Clements, Joseph Andrew Clements, John Paul Diller, Fabrico Henrique Jesus, Tyson Lytle, Jedediah Andrews Mossi, Karl ...

• Salt Lake City approves 13.8 percent tax hike despite mayors threat to veto

  The Salt Lake City Council forged ahead in adopting amendments to next year's budget despite the mayor's threat to veto, and pushed a proposed property tax increase to $8 ...

• Top Lines Obama NSA Miss Utah Bill O’Reilly and asphyxiation

  Straighten your tie on air; Pres. Obama defends NSA intelligence gathering; Miss Utah says "create education better"; Bill O'Reilly makes fun of everybody - just ask him; and there's no pleasing Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham on Syria in today's "Top ...

• Sex abuse suspect arrested four years after allegedly fleeing to Mexico

  A man charged with child sex abuse who authorities say fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution was arrested and extradited back to ...

• Report Changing climate poses severe risks to birds Utah waterfowl

  A new report by the National Wildlife Federation said climate change is the most serious threat birds face this century. The report raises concerns at Utah's Great Salt Lake, a major stop on the Pacific fly-way for hundreds of ...

• Man accused of killing friend pleads guilty to unrelated sexual assault

  VERNAL - A Fort Duchesne man accused of killing a friend in April has admitted to sexually assaulting a Vernal woman in an unrelated case. Jesse Anthony Saenz, 23, pleaded guilty Tuesday in 8th District Court to aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree felony. In exchange for Saenz's plea, prosecutors asked Judge Clark McClellan to dismiss charges of aggravated kidnapping, object ...

• 11-year-old boy saves little sister from bear attack

  NEW FORK, Wyo. &#8212 A Kaysville family celebrating Father's Day with a camping trip to Wyoming survived an encounter with a bear thanks to the quick thinking of their 11-year-old son. It was supposed to be a family fun day, camping in New Fork, Wyo., but it quickly turned into a nightmare for the Kelly family. They're just grateful nothing other than some property damaged ...

• More lawsuits expected against West Valley City

  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A wrongful death lawsuit filed against West Valley City Police last week may be the first of many lodged against the beleaguered ...

• Utah man shot by son-in-law during Catholic Mass upgraded to fair condition

  Police are outside St. James Catholic Church in Ogden, Utah, Sunday June 16, 2013 after a man was shot in the back of the head during mass at the church. The suspect, Charles Richard Jennings Jr., 35, was captured Sunday afternoon in nearby Box Elder County after fleeing in a stolen pickup truck, investigators said. (AP Photo/Standard-Examiner, Benjamin Zack) TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT MBO ...

• Man charged with attempted murder in Ogden church shooting

  The man accused of shooting his father-in-law inside an Ogden church was charged in 2nd District Court on ...

• Miss Utah 2013 Addresses Pageant Gaffe Finally Answers Question

  Marissa Powell, otherwise known as Miss Utah, flubbed on a question about women being the primary earners in 40 percent of American homes, yet still earning less than men.Earning herself a place in pageant history, Powell replied that we need to "create education better" during a botched answer."I think we can relate this back to education and how were are continuing to strive to ...

• Yesterday Miss Utah Was Taunted Today Shes Celebrated

  Miss Utah Marissa Powell finished third in the Miss USA Pageant, and became an Internet sensation for her flubbed response to a question about the gender wage gap. But she is getting just as much, if not more attention as the actual winner of the pageant, Miss Connecticut Erin Brady. Powell’s response to a question about female breadwinners and income inequality went viral after she gave ...

• Miss Utah USAs botched answer makes her a star

  Marissa Powell didn't win the title of Miss USA on Sunday, but she did make quite an impression en route to being named third runner-up. Not necessarily a good impression, but certainly one that is unforgettable. When asked what it says about society that women continue to earn less than men, the Salt Laker stumbled and bumbled her way through an answer that went viral on the Internet: ...

• Miss Utah USA takes 2nd stab at pageant question

  De izquierda a derecha, Miss Connecticut, Miss Carolina del Sur, Miss Illinois, Miss Alabama y Miss Utah en el concurso de Miss USA 2013 el domingo 16 de junio de 2013 en Las Vegas. Miss Utah no ganó pero su respuesta accidentada creó escándalo en ...

• Utah girl with cancer who met Justin Bieber dies

  COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS &#8212 A young girl with cancer who made headlines after her family successfully campaigned for a meeting with Justin Bieber has died. Millie Flamm died Tuesday morning after three and a half years of chemotherapy, according to a post by family ...

• Communications A good week for terrible interviews. Starring Joe Kinnear and Miss Utah

  He may have mastered the interview for the job of director of football at Newcastle United, but Joe Kinnear made a complete hash of an interview on TalkSport the day after signing his ...

• USMNT ready for Rio Tinto Stadium and World Cup qualifier

  SANDY - Coming off a huge 2-0 win over Panama in Seattle just one week ago, the U.S. Soccer Men’s National Team is ready to open up the second half of the Hexagonal and play its World Cup qualifier against Honduras at Rio Tinto Stadium Tuesday night. "I think we’re really looking forward to the match," U.S. Soccer head coach Jurgen Klinsmann said at a press conference ...

• Miss Utah redeems her education flub on ‘Today’

  Nene Leakes has some advice for Miss Utah, who is still smarting from her convoluted answer to the reality star’s question during the Miss USA pageant Sunday night. “She can turn this negative into a positive,” Leakes told ...

• Leave Miss Utah alone | Tauriq Moosa

  Her parents adopted her little brother , who was subsequently diagnosed with several medical issues, including an inoperable brain tumor.Now consider: she entered an inoffensive competition, where under the gaze of an unknown and massive multitude, she was asked this ...

• Driver killed when car flies off road rolls end-to-end

  LOGAN — A man was killed late Monday night when his speeding car flew off a road in Logan. Police said he was traveling way too fast for the 25 mile an hour speed limit. The 24-year-old Salt Lake City man was driving on 1500 North near 1400 East in Logan around 11 p.m. Monday when he lost control of his car. "Officers responded to the scene. They found a Subaru that had exited ...

• Miss Utahs botched answer elicits cringes across web

  LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Miss Utah Marissa Powell is the latest beauty queen to trip on national television, not over her gown, but during the interview ...

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