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  • Utah mom makes big difference in fight for clean air

    SALT LAKE CITY — Cherise Udell spent her early years as a guide through the Amazon jungle. Armed with a 17-inch machete, she said she was ready for any challenge. When she moved to salt lake city in 2006, she found something to fight for: Making Utah's air cleaner for her children...and all of us. "I call myself a full-time mom, but when really look at it...there is no ...

  • Boy attacked by 3 rottweilers recovering well

    ST GEORGE — Just two weeks ago, an 11-year-old boy from St. George was attacked by three rottweilers. He had injuries over his entire body, including bites so deep doctors could see muscle. Nevertheless, these days K.J. Reid is doing much better. At the start of National Dog Bite Prevention Week, you wouldn't think he was the same boy suffering from an attack back on May 6. ...

  • XanGo co-founder says partners embezzled hundreds of thousands

    SALT LAKE CITY - A co-founder of one of Utah's most recognizable and successful brands paints a picture of a company rife with corporate looting, internal cover-ups and spying in a federal lawsuit. XanGo co-founder and board member Bryan B. Davis accuses his five founding partners of asset mismanagement, intimidation and illegal activities from fraud to bribery in the 38-page complaint ...

  • Closer to home How will these national scandals affect Utah politics

    In the past two weeks, Americans were confronted with the fact that their government engaged in activities repugnant to democratic societies — cover up of mistakes in protecting foreign diplomats, IRS probes of conservative political organizations and secret seizure of more than 100 journalists' phone records. We offer insightful examination (in other words, LaVarr needling Frank, ...

  • Who Needs a Limo

    Who Needs a Limo? Authorities accused Audrey Ferguson, 51, of calling ambulances at least 100 times in the past seven years to get free rides to downtown Charleston, S.C. "We transport her to one of the area hospitals and then oftentimes before we can get our paperwork completed, she’s signed out from the hospital and gone on to do other things," Dorchester County EMS ...


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Movie Review

The Sixth Sense

M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" is about a little boy named Cole who has been bestowed with a terrible gift: the ability the see dead people. He sees them walking around everywhere, and most of them are unaware that they are dead. Many of them are angry, such as an abused housewife who eventually slit her wrists; some of them are sad, such as a little girl who spent the last two years of h ... ...

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  • Pro Wrestler Damien Sandow

    Ordinarily, hearing a pompous, condescending, presumably overeducated man bloviate and self-promote doesn’t provide for engaging entertainment. Being able to experience Damien Sandow doing said bloviating and self-promoting, however, means an exception to that ...

  • 70 years later firefighters honor fallen heroes of Victory Theater Fire

    SALT LAKE CITY - A 1931 Mack firetruck was parked on streets wet from rain Sunday morning outside a building that once housed Victory Theater. The truck was one that firefighters used to respond to a fire at the theater 70 years ago to the day, that resulted in three responding firefighters killed and 10 injured. Dozens of Salt Lake and Murray firefighters stood at attention as a bell sounded ...

  • Utah sees decrease in greenhouse gas emmissions since 2000

    SALT LAKE CITY - Utah was one of 32 states across the country to see a decrease in its greenhouse gas emissions in the span of a decade, according to a new analysis. ...

  • VIDEO Audi S5 is a close relative to Iron Mans ride

    "Iron Man 3" was released a few weeks ago, and it features an Audi R8, which has up to 550 horsepower which we decided to test and review. We had to settle for an S5 that Audi loaned us. It didn’t feel like settling. "Much more power than I’m accustomed to," said Paul Johnson, our guest tester. He’s been driving since he was 8 years old, but mostly farm ...

  • Evanston police shoot kill man who allegedly fired rifle around town

    EVANSTON — Police have released information about an officer-involved shooting that left one man dead after a series of shootings and a short high speed chase Saturday afternoon. In a statement released Sunday, Evanston Police said that an officer, as well as a Uinta County sheriff's deputy, shot and killed 43-year old Naim Keith Labaki after the man pointed a rifle at officers. ...

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