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Uintah County teacher guns training...
Kelli Pierce

Uintah County teachers get concealed carry training for guns

The Uintah County Sheriff's Office says the teachers took a class last Friday to help them qualify to get a concealed carry permit.
7 years ago
PHOTO: Camping World Facebook...
Colby Walker

Can a flag be too big? A North Carolina city is suing RV dealer over large American Flag

An American flag 80 feet long and 40 feet tall flying outside of Gander RV & Camping World in North Carolina is causing issues with the city of Statesville and is now being fined $50 a day.
7 years ago
Customers will be able to get New Coke while supplies last starting on Thursday....
Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business

Coca-Cola is bringing back New Coke in honor of ‘Stranger Things’

Coca-Cola is hoping a failed product from the 1980s will help it go viral in 2019. The company is bringing back a limited number of New Coke cans in honor of the upcoming third season of "Stranger Things," in which the product is featured.
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Faith Karimi and Amir Vera, CNN

Washington becomes the first state to legalize composting of humans

Washington has become the first state in the nation to pass a law allowing composting as an alternative to burial or cremation of human remains. Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill Tuesday legalizing human composting. The bill will go into effect in May next yea
7 years ago
Altria Tobacco to 21 ad...
Mark Oliver

Why is America’s biggest tobacco company trying to increase the legal smoking age to 21?

Four Tobacco to 21 bills were announced last month, but a KSL Newsradio investigation has found evidence linking all but one of them to big tobacco.
7 years ago
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Saige Miller

Lime is hoping to improve air quality in Utah through donation program

Lime, the electric scooter company, announced that they are partnering with the Utah Clean Air Partnership to help improve air quality in Utah,
7 years ago
In this April 9, 2019, photo, Pilot Tom Travis sits in the cockpit of the World War II troop carrie...
JAY REEVES Associated Press

WWII plane rescued from boneyard to join D-Day anniversary

Filled with paratroopers, a U.S. warplane lumbered down an English runway in 1944 to spearhead the World War II D-Day invasion with a message for Adolf Hitler painted in bright yellow across its nose: "That's All, Brother."
7 years ago
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CNN

New York might make it illegal to text while walking

A bill in the New York State Senate seeks to ban pedestrians from using portable electronic devices while crossing the road.
7 years ago
Elder Andrew Carr missionary mexico...
Becky Bruce

Missionary suffers accidental asphyxiation in Mexico

Elder Andrew Carr of Fort Worth died Saturday morning as a result of fumes from a faulty water heater in his Mexico City missionary apartment.
7 years ago
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CNN

Over-processed foods add 500 calories to your diet every day

People limited to a diet of primarily highly processed foods ate more calories and gained more weight than when they ate less processed foods.
7 years ago
President Donald Trump speaks on immigration in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, May 1...
By ZEKE MILLER, LISA MASCARO and JILL COLVIN Associated Press

Trump plan would shift immigration focus to ‘merit’

Unveiling a new immigration plan, President Donald Trump said he wanted to provide a sharp contrast with Democrats, and he did — aiming to upend decades of family-based immigration policy with a new approach that favors younger, "totally brilliant," high-skilled workers he says won't compete for American jobs.
7 years ago
Emergency response crews transport an injured passenger to an ambulance at the George Inlet Lodge d...
Ryan Meeks

3 dead, 3 missing after small tour planes collide in Alaska

Three people were killed after two sightseeing airplanes carrying cruise ship tourists collided in midair near a southeast Alaska town
7 years ago
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CNN

Remembering the migrant workers who built the transcontinental railroad

For years, railroad workers were largely overlooked in memorial events marking the railroad's completion. This year, however, that changed.
7 years ago
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Associated Press

Transcontinental railroad celebrated with fanfare, cosplaying

Music, speeches and the firing of cannons rang out in the Utah desert where the final spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were hammered 150 years ago.
7 years ago
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Becky Bruce

English engineer’s final wish, to go out with a train, is granted

A British train engineer told his family his dying wish was to have his ashes sent through the firebox of the historic Big Boy No. 4014.
7 years ago
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CNN

House committee votes to hold Barr in contempt, Trump invokes executive privilege

The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to hand over the unredacted Mueller report.
7 years ago
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CNN

Apprehensions on the US-Mexico border highest since 2009

As of early May, the US Border Patrol has apprehended around 493,000 people for illegally crossing into the US from the southern border this year.
7 years ago
FILE - In this March 15, 2017, file photo, a sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service at...
CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press

Uber, Lyft drivers plan to strike in cities across the US

Drivers for ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are planning to turn off their apps to protest what they say are declining wages at a time when both companies are raking in billions of dollars from investors.
7 years ago
President Donald Trump and First lady Melania Trump, left, smile during a one year anniversary even...
Associated Press

Newspaper: Trump lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Donald Trump’s businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994, based on tax information the newspaper acquired.
7 years ago
neck stroke popping cracking...
CNN

Be careful when cracking your neck. This guy suffered a stroke.

Be careful the next time you pop your neck. Josh Hader, 28, from Guthrie, Oklahoma, suffered a serious stroke by cracking his neck.
7 years ago
CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 1: Charlotte-Mecklenburg law enforcement stand in front front of the Kennedy bu...
TOM FOREMAN JR. AND SARAH BLAKE MORGAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Slain student hailed as hero for confronting campus gunman

A North Carolina college student tackled a gunman who opened fire in his classroom, saving others’ lives but losing his own in the process, police said Wednesday.
7 years ago
AG William Barr...
Becky Bruce

Barr downplays Trump’s effort to remove Mueller in testimony

A.G. William Barr downplayed special counsel Robert Mueller's analysis, especially regarding the president's direction to remove the special counsel.
7 years ago
Students gather on the campus of the University of North Carolina Charlotte after a shooting Tuesda...
Associated Press, TOM FOREMAN Jr.

North Carolina campus shooting leaves 2 dead, 4 injured

Two people were killed and four injured Tuesday in a shooting Tuesday on a North Carolina university campus, prompting a lockdown and chaotic scene in North Carolina’s largest city.
7 years ago
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Associated Press

Rod Rosenstein submits letter of resignation to Trump

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has submitted a letter of resignation to President Donald Trump. It's effective May 11.
7 years ago