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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • Gay Parents In The U.S. Salt Lake City Has Highest Population Of Same-Sex Couples Raising Kids

    some startling facts about the demographics of gay and lesbian parents. Metro areas with the highest percentages of same-sex couples who are raising children are located in socially conservative states with constitutional bans on marriage equality in place, officials at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law point out in a press release. The following infographic was created as part ...

  • University of Utah makes list of most-attended schools by Fortunes top 100 CEOs

    U.S. News and World Report released a report on Wednesday of where America's business leaders went to college, and a local school was featured. The study, also published on Yahoo!, looked at the top 100 CE0s on the Fortune 500 list. While the usual suspects were at the top of the list, the University of Utah awarded three degrees to CEOs of some of the top 100 companies, including one ...

  • Solicitor arrested in Herriman after alleged aggression

    HERRIMAN — A solicitor was arrested Wednesday after residents complained that he was being aggressive. Aaron Howell, 38, was arrested Wednesday after Unified Police received reports Tuesday of him being aggressive while selling cleaning products door-to-door. Officers had been looking for Howell, Lt. Justin Hoyal said, when they received another call about an aggressive solicitor. ...

  • $2.6B needed for Utah to reach per-pupil national education spending average

    To match Washington, D.C. — currently the highest per-pupil spending rate in the country — Utah would need more than $8 billion, which would require a 19.8 percent income tax rate and an additional annual household cost of ...

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