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  • Job market tight for 30K college grads in Utah this year

    SALT LAKE CITY — It's graduation season for thousands of college students across the country and as they receive their diplomas, now comes the daunting task for many to find a job. It's not entirely a dire picture for them. KSL-TV spoke with students who found work before they graduated as well as those who are still looking. College grads in Utah In Utah, about 30,000 ...

  • Utah search and rescue team on high alert after Okla. tornado

    SALT LAKE CITY - An elite search and rescue team in Utah was put on alert this week after a tornado blew through Oklahoma on Monday. The team did not deploy, but similar teams have spent the past few days wading through storm rubble, looking for survivors. Utah Task Force 1 is one of 28 federal teams with the tools and expertise to save people after major disasters. The task force is made up ...

  • UDOT crews plan massive pipe installation in Parleys Canyon

    PARLEYS CANYON — At the mouth of Parleys Canyon on I-80, the Utah Department of Transportation is starting work on one of its biggest projects of the summer. It will replace a 2-mile section of massive pipe that carries Parleys Creek under the interstate. Maintaining the road in the steep canyon is never easy; replacing a culvert deep under the road with 46,000 cars passing by every day ...

  • Report Medicaid expansion comes with significant costs to taxpayers

    SALT LAKE CITY - No matter how it's sliced or diced, Medicaid expansion will cost the state and taxpayers, but it might also provide a savings for at least a few years and serve as a boost to the local economy. The financial details were part of a long-awaited report, highlighting the costs and benefits of Medicaid expansion in Utah, released Thursday by the Utah Department of Health. ...

  • 2 years later Joplin still has much to do in aftermath of tornado

    Joplin, MO — Two years ago this week, another EF5 twister hit the Midwest. The storm killed more than 160 people in Joplin, Missouri and decimated much of the inner part of the city. On this anniversary, KSL-TV asked our own Lori Prichard, who grew up in Joplin — whose family still lives there, whose history is woven into the fabric of that community— to take a look at the ...


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Movie Review

Die Another Day

Die Another Day

Forty years and 20 official movies later, James Bond is still at it. In the longest-running franchise in movie history, we have seen British special agent 007 escape from virtually every situation imaginable, defeat dozens of maniacal villains intent on taking over the world, utilize gadgets ranging from the extraordinary to the ludicrous, and bed a bevy of beauties from every continent while sti ... ...

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  • Man accused of shooting at deputies found competent for trial

    DUCHESNE - A Duchesne County man accused of shooting at a man driving past his property, and later at sheriff's deputies, has been found competent to stand trial. Clyde Wayne Thomas is charged in 8th District Court with attempted murder, a first-degree felony, and discharge of a firearm, a third-degree felony. ...

  • Steven Powell cant return to home due to community concerns

    PUYALLUP, Wash. - The Washington Department of Corrections says Steven Powell cannot move back into his old neighborhood where the crimes he was convicted of took place. Powell, 62, is currently serving a prison sentence after being convicted of 14 counts of voyeurism in May of 2012. A Tacoma jury found him guilty of taking photographs of two neighbor girls, then ages 8 and 10, with a telephoto ...

  • Parking spots offer prizes good health

    SALT LAKE CITY &#8212 The health benefits of regular activity are well known, and a new parking lot initiative can help pay off in ways you wouldn't expect. Keeping active can significantly lower the risk of heart attack and can lower blood pressure and cholesterol. But if an hour at the gym doesn't always fit your busy lifestyle, health professionals like Intermountain ...

  • Exhibit gives kids behind-the-scenes look at natural disasters

    were hampering cleanup efforts in the tornado-ravaged town of Moore. The humbling aspect of all these storms is as fascinating as it is frightening, and each are elements of a new museum exhibit in Utah called "Nature Unleashed." Aside from the tragic destruction, there are so many different elements to natural disasters. Why do they happen when and where they do? Starting ...

  • 15-year-old brother held in Utah stabbing deaths of 2 younger siblings

    WEST POINT, Utah - A 15-year-old boy is in custody after authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of his younger adopted brothers found him miles away with traces of blood on him, officials said. He was arrested Thursday in the deaths of the boys, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new houses and tidy lawns, police said. "He spoke bluntly with our ...

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