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  • Herbert urges D.C. committee to let Utah manage public lands

    SALT LAKE CITY - Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said managing forests and threatened species are tasks best left to states instead of a federal government held hostage by bureaucracy and stymied by litigation. "We think we are in a better position to manage," Herbert told members of a House Natural Resources subcommittee. "It is not that they are not well-intentioned, they are just not ...

  • Utahns ready to help tornado storm victims

    at least 24 people — including nine children — were killed, and more than 200 people were injured by the 200-mph winds across 17 miles. As the search for victims concludes in Moore, people across the nation are reaching out to help. "Very quickly after it lifted, you began to get damage reports and it was Joplin all over," said Pastor Myke Crowder of the Christian Life ...

  • Salt Lake City has highest rate of same-sex couples raising kids

    Traditional marriage supporters and same-sex marriage supporters gather at Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City. A new study finds that the Utah capital and its outskirts have the nation's highest percentage of gay or lesbian couples raising ...

  • Correction Missing Mom-Utah story

    WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -; In a story May 20 about the Susan Powell investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously the day that Josh Powell committed suicide. It happened on Feb. 5, ...

  • Utah Gov. Herbert rails against federal land management

    HELENA -- About a half-dozen tea party activists have gathered outside the federal building in Helena to protest IRS scrutiny of conservative ...


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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

In I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Adam Sandler and Kevin James play Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine, two uber-masculine, unfailingly heterosexual New York City firefighters who pretend to be a married gay couple so that Larry can keep his pension ... ...

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  • Mustard-filled munitions found in Utah desert

    Informal stockpiles of buried World War II-era munitions were discovered during the cleanup of a Utah chemical depot, an Army spokeswoman said. The Deseret Chemical Depot, a 19,000-acre facility whose Chemical Agent Disposal Facility was closed in 2012, still contains 27 informal dumps where weapons and debris were burned in the years before environmental health hazards were understood. Among ...

  • Kevin Durant donates $1M to Red Cross and a look at BYU Utah and USU football

    OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant is pledging $1 million to the tornado relief in Oklahoma. In the wake of the disaster in Oklahoma the NBA star will pledge the money through his charity The Durant Family Foundation and will match other donations from people through the Red Cross. We always knew Durant was one of the best in NBA, but it also turns out he's one of ...

  • Salt Lake City School District to run Summer Kindergarten Readiness Program

    The Salt Lake City School District's Summer Kindergarten Readiness Program is now open for registration through June ...

  • Bronco is top dog for BYU

    PROVO - Almost from the moment he was promoted to head coach at BYU, Bronco Mendenhall spoke occasionally about his future, acknowledging that the fit wasn’t for the long term. And when Mendenhall preferred to sign a shorter deal, speculation grew that he would stay true to his forecast. It turns out that prediction was wrong. The phrase "position mastery" is here to ...

  • No bail decision yet for doctor accused of killing scientist ex-wife

    SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake pediatrician accused of killing his ex-wife appeared in court Monday to ask for reduced bail but agreed to postpone the request. Attorneys for John Brickman Wall had asked for a bail hearing to address their motion asking that the doctor's bail be reduced to $100,000. But 3rd District Judge Robin Reese said he would not be making any substantial changes due to ...

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