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Parent Calls Bible ‘PORN’ and Demands Utah School District Remove It From Libraries
A parent is arguing that if banned books like 'Gender Queer' are pulled from shelves, the Bible—with its sex scenes, incest, and murder—should be banned, too.
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‘Yellowstone’ Star Luke Grimes Says He ‘Moved to Montana’ After ‘Falling in Love With the Lifestyle’
For “Yellowstone” star Luke Grimes, filming the Western show in Montana and Utah has influenced his life in several key ways. When you’ve been in a prominent role as long as Luke Grimes has been on “Yellowstone,” it’s bound to change you just a little bit. But for Grimes, being surrounded by the scenery and lifestyle of the American West caused him to uproot his life and settle down again in those key filming locations.
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Utah police now banned from shooting at people who are suicidal but only a threat to themselves
Utah police officers are now prohibited from shooting at someone if the person is suicidal but isn’t a threat to anyone else, under a new law that went into effect on Wednesday. The state law previously said a police officer was allowed to use deadly force if a suspect poses “a threat of serious bodily injury to the officer or to others.”
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Life Lessons from a Moab Trailer
What I learned about love, loss, and landscape over two decades of living in a 1961 Artcraft mobile home in the Utah desert
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Utah is about to pass a law making iPhones filter porn — but only if other states pass one, too
In the next week, Utah’s governor will decide whether to make all phones and tablets in the state filter pornography... sort of. The bill, which passed Utah’s legislature earlier this month, would require mobile devices to “automatically enable a filter capable of blocking material that is harmful to minors.” Gov. Spencer Cox has said he will “carefully consider” signing it by the March 25th deadline.
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A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control Over a Large Swath of Utah
A long-standing law, known as the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, awards the oil-and-gas industry chunks of federal land through a process designed to move real estate out of public control as easily as possible.
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Utah bans conversion therapy on LGBTQ children as rule goes into effect
A rule banning conversion therapy on LGBTQ children has gone into effect, making Utah the 19th state to ban the practice. Governor Gary Herbert’s office confirmed to FOX 13 that the administrative rule went into effect on Tuesday night. The governor’s office declined to comment any further on it.
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YouTube's 'King of Random' Grant Thompson Dead at 38, Paragliding Accident
YouTuber Grant Thompson died in a paragliding accident in Utah Monday night.
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A Utah veteran turning 101 gets over 5,000 birthday cards
OREM, Utah (AP) - When John Frey's family requested 101 birthday cards to celebrate the World War II veteran's 101st birthday in Utah, they were expecting to get 500 at most. At a celebration on June 8, a day after his birthday, Frey ended up with well over 5,000 cards, the Daily Herald reports.
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These scientists are setting a forest on fire — and studying it with drones
Data from the blaze in Utah could improve models of how wildfire smoke spreads.
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91-year-old mailman retires after 69 years with perfect record
A 91-year-old Richfield mailman is retiring with a perfect record after more than 69 years. Jack Lund started in 1949 and has had a career spanning eight decades. During that time, he never failed to deliver the mail despite severe mountain weather, vehicle breakdowns, and other challenges. Richfield-area postal employees who have worked with Lund for years report he's not only reliable, he also conducts himself with the utmost honesty and integrity and has done it all with a smile.
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Trump Auctions Off 150,000 Acres of Public Lands for Fracking Near Utah National Parks
On Tuesday the Trump administration offered more than 150,000 acres of public lands for fossil-fuel extraction near some of Utah's most iconic landscapes, including Arches and Canyonlands national parks.
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Utah has a new medical marijuana law — but not the one approved by voters in the recent election
On Monday, the first business day after Utah’s medical cannabis initiative became law, state legislators supplanted it with a more tightly controlled plan for providing marijuana-based treatment. The Utah Medical Cannabis Act, designed as a replacement for voter-approved Proposition 2, breezed through the Utah House of Representatives and Senate during Monday’s special session. The one-day gathering of state lawmakers has been in the works since October, when Gov. Gary Herbert announced that supporters and opponents of Prop 2 had reached consensus around a legislative solution to their disagreements.
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Utah Must Cover $475K in Legal Fees After Losing 'Deadpool' Case
If you mess with Deadpool, you get the horns. Or, in this case, a massive fine. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Utah to pay nearly half a million dollars in legal fees after losing a court case involving a movie theater that served alcohol during screenings of the 2016 superhero flick.
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Utah lawyer says his religious beliefs are more important than sick people who use medical cannabis
A Salt Lake City-area lawyer named Walter J. Plumb III is trying to remove Utah's medical marijuana initiative from the ballot in November. Plumb, who owns a pharmaceutical company called Pharmics Inc., asserts that his religious right to be intolerant of sick people who use cannabis to treat their illness is guaranteed by the constitution. He has spent over $100,000 of his own money in his effort to prevent allowing Utahans from voting on the issue.
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These dinosaur tracks are 200 million years old, but tourists keep ripping them up
Tourists are hurling the ancient tracks into a nearby reservoir.
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Snow Geese at Gunnison Bend
About the same time every year, when hints of Spring tease us in late-February, I drive a few hours southwest of my Salt Lake City home to Delta, Utah, where migrating snow geese gather — often in a spectacle of thousands — on Gunnison Bend Reservoir.
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Free range kids: Children can now play outside without adult supervision in Utah
Play at a park, bike to the store, walk to school — all activities children in Utah can now legally perform alone, without parental supervision. It's all part of a "free-range kids" bill signed by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert last week. The law, which specifies it is not neglectful to let children wander independently, will take effect May 8. An age limit was purposely not defined, but the law says children left alone should display maturity and good judgment.
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Teen with Down syndrome 'distraught' after he's allegedly stripped of Boy Scout badges
The father of a boy who has Down syndrome is suing the Boys Scouts of America for allegedly blocking his son from becoming an Eagle Scout and revoking his merit badges. Logan Blythe has been a scout through the National Parks Council in Utah (UNCP). His father, Chad, says the 15-year-old has advanced because the council has made accommodations when necessary.
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Utah doesn’t have to let a man marry his laptop, judge rules
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man seeking the right to marry his laptop. In an order obtained by FOX 13 on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge David Nuffer rejected a lawsuit leveled by Chris Sevier, who argued that if same-sex marriage is legal he should be allowed to marry his computer. He also amended his lawsuit to include John Gunter, Jr., and Whitney Kohl, who sought the right to enter into a polygamous marriage.
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