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  • Refugee Boy Scout collects soccer balls to donate help other refugees

    SALT LAKE CITY - A refugee teenager is using his favorite hobby to give back to the community and earn his Boy Scout Eagle award by collecting and donating soccer balls. Kicking around a soccer ball is more than a past time for 13-year-old Joj Kwizera. The refugee said he grew up playing soccer in Congo, and now he competes and practices at least four days a week in his Salt Lake City ...

  • Never feed a bear among safety tips offered by DWR

    SALT LAKE CITY - The state Division of Wildlife Resources is offering safety tips to prevent bears from being attracted to campsites so campers can avoid tragedy this summer. Black bears, the only bears that live in Utah, are usually scared of people and will do anything they can to avoid humans, said John Shivik, mammals coordinator for the DWR. "That can change, though, if a bear starts ...

  • Utah schools receive $108M to reduce class sizes

    SALT LAKE CITY - Public school officials on Wednesday presented the first of what is expected to be an annual report on the use of state class size reduction funding to members of the Education Interim Committee. The reporting follows the passage ...

  • Myton students celebrate 100 percent increase in reading levels

    MYTON - In the small Eastern Utah town of Myton, they like to go big, and the community staged a Myton-style celebration for the elementary school students for their reading progress on Friday night. The Mighty Myton readers have worked hard this school year. A few dozen struggling students worked one-on-one with volunteer tutors, many of whom drive 20 miles to get to the school. However, ...

  • Bronze Plaque honoring Salt Lake City police officer unveiled

    SALT LAKE CITY &#8212 Friday afternoon was the first time Sandi Dunman-Bromley has been at a ceremony for her husband. At least this time, though, she could smile a little. "This is very exciting," said Dunman-Bromley, "I think it's fantastic. It's been almost 13 years, so I'm really excited we got the plaque up." The plaque she's talking about ...


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Movie Review

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne [DVD]

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne [DVD]

Robert Bresson is most often thought of as an uncompromising minimalist, a director whose unique (to some maddening) aesthetic insisted on unprofessional actors, flat dialogue, simple camerawork, and almost no nondiegetic music. His best films, including Diary of a Country Priest (1950), Pickpocket (1959), and, to a lesser extent, Lancelot du Lac (1974), are all masterpieces ... ...

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  • Medical artists work helping cancer survivors feel whole again

    SALT LAKE CITY — A mastectomy is a common method of treatment breast cancer patients. For some cancer survivors, what the surgery takes away has a more profound effect on them than they had imagined. Brenda Shilder could appreciate the difficult choice revealed this ...

  • Utah soldier declared MIA following explosion presumed dead

    PAYSON - Family members believe a Utah County soldier missing in action in Afghanistan has been killed. The family of Cody Towse said they were notified by a military representative Tuesday that their son was standing near an improvised explosive device when it went off, causing a massive blast. The family has not received confirmation Towse was killed but have been in daily contact with the ...

  • Salt Lake veterans hospital to test next generation of prosthetic limbs

    Project manager Sarina K. Sinclair talks about osseointegration, which means to actually attach a prosthesis directly to the bone, which 10 amputees will be the first to have in the United States and will be performed at the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center, Friday, May 17, 2013, in Salt Lake ...

  • Man takes himself off life support nephew charged with 2nd degree murder

    WEST JORDAN - Days after he was shot in the neck, Simon Vasquez was alive and conscious. But the Aug. 5, 2012, shooting had left him paralyzed from the chest down and he made the decision to be taken off of the equipment that was sustaining his life. His girlfriend, Cindy James, was emotional Friday as she recalled Vasquez being found capable of making the decision "to be taken off of ...

  • Utah facing $1.2 billion-dollar water pollution problem

    Walt Baker, director of the Utah Division of Water Quality, said a $450 million investment in technology to upgrade wastewater treatment plants that discharge to rivers would be paid for by an average $3.40 monthly increase to Utah ...

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