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  • Woman dies after Tooele Valley skydiving accident

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A skydiver died after trying to avoid an obstacle and taking a hard landing at Tooele Valley Airport, officials said Tuesday. The 30-year-old woman was found unconscious but breathing Sunday with head, neck and leg injuries, said Tooele County Chief Deputy Sheriff Duke North. She was taken to University of Utah Hospital for surgery but didn't survive, he said The ...

  • State now purchasing zero-emission electric vehicles

    SALT LAKE CITY — As air pollution intensified in northern Utah Tuesday, the Division of Air Quality asked everyone to limit driving. The ozone gas didn't quite reach the threshold for Utah's first red action alert of the summer season, but it came close, making it an officially yellow day. But the state's not just asking folks to drive less. It's also purchasing ...

  • String of car burglaries leads to arrest of 19-year-old man

    KAYSVILLE — Davis County Sheriff's deputies stumbled onto a car burglary ring, after one of the suspected thieves struck a little too close to home. Detectives said Tuesday 19-year-old Matthew Robert King was staying with a friend in Fruit Heights and started taking interest in the friend's safe. The next day, King was gone and so were the thousands of dollars inside the cash ...

  • Miss Utah gets chance to fix pageant answer flub

    NEW YORK &#8212 Miss Utah USA got a second chance Tuesday morning to answer a question she stumbled over Sunday night during the Miss USA pageant. Marissa Powell, Miss Utah ...

  • What Miss Utah Shouldve Said About The Pay Gap

    Miss Utah USA 2013 Marissa Powell Photo by Georgina Vaughan, courtesy MissUtahUSA.com By now, you've probably heard or seen the garbled answer Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, gave to this question during Sunday's the Miss USA ...


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Men in Black [Blu-Ray]

Men in Black [Blu-Ray]

Barry Sonnenfelds Men in Black has a lot in common with Ghostbusters (1984), even if Sonnenfeld likes to think of it as a sequel to The French Connection, except with aliens instead of drug dealers. Both films were substantial summer hits that derive the biggest laug ... ...

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  • Former Utah nanny sentenced to four years in prison may face extradition to Belgium

    Belgium officials sentenced a former Utah nanny to four years in prison for abusing infants. She may face ...

  • Tremonton police officer arrested for investigation of child porn

    TREMONTON - A veteran officer with the Tremonton Police Department has been arrested for investigation of sexual exploitation of a minor. Jeremy Rose, an officer with the department for 12 years, was arrested Friday. He was originally booked into the Davis County Jail and held until the Utah Attorney General's Office could transfer him to the Box Elder County Jail, where the charge ...

  • Possible stadium expansion would force move of Olympic icons

    SALT LAKE CITY — The legacy of the 2002 Olympics will always remain in Salt Lake City, but University of Utah and city officials are in the process of balancing what remains of that legacy with what they hope to accomplish in the future. "The University of Utah has moved into the Pac-12, and with that is all kinds of excitement and change," said Gordon Wilson, assistant vice ...

  • 10 people indicted in multi-state marijuana ring

    SALT LAKE CITY - Ten people have been federally indicted in a major marijuana operation stretching from Utah to California. The federal grand jury indictment was filed and sealed in 2011 and unsealed just last week. Joshua Wayne Cooper, Tyler Robert Cooper, Jonathan Isaac Clements, Joseph Andrew Clements, John Paul Diller, Fabrico Henrique Jesus, Tyson Lytle, Jedediah Andrews Mossi, Karl ...

  • Salt Lake City approves 13.8 percent tax hike despite mayors threat to veto

    The Salt Lake City Council forged ahead in adopting amendments to next year's budget despite the mayor's threat to veto, and pushed a proposed property tax increase to $8 ...

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