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Daybreak community signs...
Madeleine Porter

Daybreak community apologized for notices to remove BLM signs

The Daybreak Community Association apologized for notices asking some residents to remove their Black Lives Matter signs, calling the notices an error.
6 years ago
Salt Lake City Homicide...
Madeleine Porter

Police respond to a homicide in Salt Lake City

Personal Investigation Officers are on the scene of a homicide Wednesday in Salt Lake City. It occurred on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Main Street. 
6 years ago
Mosquito flag...
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press

Agency swats down prospect of mosquito flag for Mississippi

Mississippi will not put a huge mosquito on its new state flag. The state Department of Archives and history says Tuesday that a design featuring the blood-sucking insect had slipped through the screening process and should not have been among the finalists posted online Monday.
6 years ago
Smith's vaccinations...
Cami Mondeaux

Smith’s issues recall on cheese dips, citing potential Salmonella contamination

Smith's Food and Drug store issued a recall a variety of cheese dips sold in its stores Tuesday, citing a possible Salmonella contamination.
6 years ago
bail system reform...
Cami Mondeaux

American Bail Coalition director: It’s time for system reform

The American bail system has been undergoing reform over the last decade in an effort to eliminate bail for low-level cases.
6 years ago
Kamala Harris...
ALEXANDRA JAFFE and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press

Biden selects California Sen. Kamala Harris as running mate

Joe Biden has chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate.
6 years ago
Utah county commissioner...
John Wojcik

Utah County Commissioner injured in National Guard training

A six week military training expedition in Georgia began roughly for Utah County Commissioner Tanner Ainge. He shared pictures on social media of his badly bloodied shin after stepping on jagged PVC piping.
6 years ago
Utah Democrats harassment...
Paul Nelson

Utah officials unsure about Pres. Trump’s executive order to extend unemployment benefits

State officials are unclear on it Utah will participate in President Trump's executive order to extend unemployment benefits.
6 years ago
TSA guns...
Cami Mondeaux

TSA reports more guns found in luggage as passengers return to airports

As airports begin to see a five-month high in air traffic, TSA reports finding guns in passenger carry-on bags -- with 80% of these guns loaded. 
6 years ago
Pac-12 sports COVID-19...
RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

College football players, parents, unite to be heard

COVID-19 concerns had Pac-12 football players meeting with conference leadership this week. An official update is expected next week.
6 years ago
Oprah Winfrey billboard Breonna TaylorBreonna...
The Associated Press

Winfrey demanding justice for Breonna Taylor with billboards

Oprah Winfrey has placed 26 billboards across Louisville, Kentucky demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a woman shot to death during a police raid.
6 years ago
Sturgis virus...
STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press

Harleys everywhere, masks … not so much: Sturgis draws thousands

Thousands of bikers are pouring into the small South Dakota city of Sturgis as the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally rumbles to life.
6 years ago
Michelle Toh, CNN Business

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now worth $100 billion

Mark Zuckerberg has joined the world's most exclusive club of the ultra rich.
6 years ago
moderna announcement...
Elizabeth Cohen and Dana Vigue, CNN

Fauci ‘satisfied’ with enrollment for the first week of Covid-19 vaccine trial

Dr. Anthony Fauci said he's "satisfied" with the enrollment in the first week of the first US Phase 3 clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine.
6 years ago
pandemic child well-being...
LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer

US kids, parents perform DIY tests for coronavirus science

Six thousand U.S. parents and kids are doing DIY nasal swabs twice a week to answer some of the most vexing mysteries about the coronavirus.
6 years ago
The Chinese company's popular messaging app WeChat could now be banned in the United States, if Ten...
Sherisse Pham, CNN Business

Tencent just became Trump’s new target in the tech war with China

Tencent just became the latest target in President Donald Trump's rapidly escalating tech war with China.
6 years ago
FILE - This Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO W...
MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press

New York attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA

New York's AG is suing the National Rifle Association, claiming top NRA executives diverted millions of dollars to themselves and their friends.
6 years ago
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Alicia Lee, CNN

Hasbro is removing Trolls doll from stores amid complaints that button is inappropriately placed

Hasbro pulls Trolls doll over concern it may be inappropriate. A consumer gathered 150,000 signatures on a petition asking for the change.
6 years ago
FILE - This Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO W...
MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and LISA MARIE PANE

NY attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA

New York’s attorney general is suing the National Rifle Association, seeking to put the powerful gun advocacy organization out of business over allegations that high-ranking executives diverted millions of dollars for personal benefit.
6 years ago
Russia disinformation...
AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press

State Dept.: Russia pushes disinformation in online network

The State Department says Russia is using social media, state-funded media and a loose network of proxy websites to amplify conspiracy theories and misinformation, most recently around the coronavirus.
6 years ago
bail system reform...
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press

Judge: Doctrine shielding police from lawsuits is wrong

A federal judge in Mississippi calls on the Supreme Court to overturn qualified immunity which protects law enforcement from being sued for some of their actions.
6 years ago
Doctors have mixed feelings about kids going back to school because of spiking COVID-19 cases refug...
Curt Gresseth

Inside Sources: Help refugee students in Utah get back to school

The Utah Refugee Connection needs your help to put refugee kids in the state back in classrooms safely. Utah has 65,000 refugee students.
6 years ago
Trump signs new legislation for the environment....
DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press

Pres. Trump signs $3B-a-year plan to boost conservation, parks

President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation that will devote nearly $3 billion annually to conservation projects.
6 years ago
4th Congressional District, Burgess Owens pulls ahead 2,095 votes in Utah’s 4th District...
LIndsay Aerts

Poll shows Utah’s District 4 race is neck and neck

Rep. Ben McAdams and his opponent in the race for Utah's 4th District, Burgess Owens, are tied according to a new Deseret News/Hinkley Inst. poll.
6 years ago