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  • Utah contestants of The Voice will perform tour in Utah

    SALT LAKE CITY - Utah contestants who performed on "The Voice" will soon be performing in their home state. A new Utah company that helps developing musicians will go on tour with the local artists in June. The music company, Refinement Records, is based out of Draper and got some popular local artists for their first tour. Ryan Innes and Amy Whitcomb sang as soloists on the current ...

  • CrossFit karate gyms fundraising for family of mother who died in childbirth

    OREM - The family of a Utah County woman who died during childbirth has received a tremendous outpouring of support from Utahns and people around the country. Katrina Lawrence died on May 6 while giving birth to her sixth child, her son Jett Li. Since then her story has touched many people who never knew or met her. Friends and family said her story inspired more than 17,000 on Facebook and ...

  • Criminal sketch artist retires after 41 years of service

    SALT LAKE CITY - A woman who has drawn sketches to help police identify criminals is retiring after 41 years of service. Karen Kido has been involved in every major Salt Lake City police case for over four decades. She is a talented artist who has been able to draw sketches with enough detail to help investigators identify criminals. Kido said that she has really enjoyed her work. ...

  • New West Davis Corridor to destroy bird habitats says environmental group

    SALT LAKE CITY - Environmental groups in the Salt Lake Valley are urging UDOT to examine how a proposed highway could affect wildlife along the Great Salt Lake. The environmentalist volunteers are spending dozens of hours logging and counting specific birds in Davis County's wetlands, and they want to show UDOT how the habitats will be affected by the new highway. Members of the ...

  • UHP using data to patrol prevent accidents during Memorial Day weekend

    SALT LAKE CITY - Utah Highway Patrol officers were originally guided by road experience and instincts in making arrests and patrolling holiday traffic. Now, they are governed by science and data to prevent fatalities during holiday weekends. Utah Highway Patrol troopers - just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend - spoke publicly for the first time about their new approach to road enforcement ...


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Up in the Air

Up in the Air

Unlike most topical films, which invariably arrive a little too late, Up in the Air is a perfectly timed evocation of our current era of corporate volatility, a wobbly economy, and a general air of unease and uncertainty. It evokes with both extraordinarily observed detail and a ... ...

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  • Digital time capsule to preserve momentos memes

    SALT LAKE CITY — What would you put in a digital time capsule to be opened in five years? Eliza McKinney, an artist living in Salt Lake City, had the idea to create a time capsule, but she had two problems: she doesn't have much in the way of stuff and doesn't own any land to speak of. So she went to the Internet, asking her Facebook friends if there was a way to create a ...

  • Salt Lake Valleys healthiest principals earn $1000 for schools

    Thirteen elementary principals from the Salt Lake Valley competed for a chance to win $1,000 for their respective schools in the My Heart Challenge, a contest sponsored by the Intermountain Heart ...

  • Bail set for man whose Utah child sex abuse conviction was vacated

    Anthony Watkins, 44, was convicted in July 2009 of aggravated sex abuse of a child and sentenced to serve 10 years to life in prison. His conviction was vacated May 10, 2013, by the Utah Supreme Court after the justices unanimously ruled that the state statute that defines aggravating factors in child sex abuse cases is ...

  • Intermountain to track radiation due to medical exams

    MURRAY - Intermountain Healthcare has launched a new system that tracks cumulative radiation exposure from medical exams. Intermountain is the only health care organization in the country currently monitoring medical radiation exposure, said David Barnes, an emergency physician at Intermountain Medical Center. The tracking goes back to August 2012. It started with some of the most popular and ...

  • Construction workers rescue woman from burning home

    SYRACUSE — Fire investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a Davis County house fire Wednesday afternoon. A woman who was inside at the time said she credits nearby construction workers with saving her life. The fire broke out just before 3 p.m. in a home near 2900 South and 2000 West. Syracuse firefighters say they arrived within minutes of the first 911 call and found the ...

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