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Salt Lake City cop who shot Black bicyclist cleared of wrongdoing
On Aug. 13, 2017, Patrick Harmon, 50, was riding his bicycle erratically in Salt Lake City, Utah. A police officer responded after seeing Harmon ride across six lanes of traffic without a rear red taillight on his bike. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, when questioned, Harmon gave multiple names in an attempt to hide the fact that he had felony warrants for aggravated assault and drug possession.
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Utah Police Officer Is Fired for Handcuffing Nurse Who Defied Him
A police body camera recorded Detective Jeff Payne detaining a nurse and dragging her off after she refused to allow him to draw blood from a sedated patient.
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US policeman fired for arresting nurse
A US police officer who forcibly arrested a nurse for refusing to take a blood sample from an unconscious patient has been fired. Footage showed nurse Alex Wubbels screaming for help as Detective Jeff Payne manhandled and handcuffed her at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has lost his job and James Tracy, his watch commander, was demoted two ranks from lieutenant to officer.
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Salt Lake police, nurses group develop new policy for hospital interactions
The Salt Lake City law enforcement officers will be following new written policies for dealing with hospitals across the valley, the police chief said Thursday. The new procedures are a direct response to a July 26 incident when a Salt Lake police officer roughly arrested University of Utah Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels after she refused to draw blood from an unconscious patient without a warrant.
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Man builds massive King Kong display in yard for Halloween
A Utah man has created a gigantic King Kong statue to sit centerstage in his front yard for Halloween. Ammon Smith, 33, has impressed his Salt Lake City neighborhood in the past, but this year he expects his 39-foot display to attract thousands of trick-or-treaters. In 2014, Smith created a pirate ship, followed be a skeleton train in 2015 and a giant dragon prop complete with Viking ship in 2016.
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Utah officer punches through frozen pond, dives in to rescue 8-year-old boy
A sheriff's officer who threw off his gear and dived into a frozen pond to save an 8-year-old Utah boy on Christmas Day refused to be labeled a hero on Tuesday. The officer, Washington County sheriff's Sgt. Aaron Thompson, responded to the frozen pond in New Harmony, in the southern part of the state, after the boy's friend called for help late Monday afternoon, authorities said.
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Thomas Monson, President of the Mormon Church, Dies at 90
Thomas S. Monson, who as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2008 enlarged the ranks of female missionaries, but rebuffed demands to ordain women as priests and refused to alter church opposition to same-sex marriage, died on Tuesday at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 90.
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USU student transported to hospital after ingesting Tide Pod
A Utah State University student was taken to a hospital Saturday after ingesting a Tide Pod. Eric Warren, director of media relations at USU, said a call came in late Saturday afternoon about an incident at on-campus housing. USU Police initially called the incident a "Tide Pod overdose", but Warren said the student in question ingested a Tide Pod.
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Report: Resigned Utah lawmaker paid escort for sex twice
DailyMail.com reports that former lawmaker Rep. Jon Stanard,(R-Dist. 62), who resigned from his position on Tuesday citing "immediate personal and family concerns," met with a Salt Lake escort twice for sex. Stanard was elected to the Utah House of Representatives in 2012. He resides in St. George and is married with three children.
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House passes medical marijuana bill that lets Utah grow weed for terminally ill patients
The Utah House of Representatives passed a resurrected bill that would make the state grow medical marijuana for terminally ill patients. House Bill 197, sponsored by Rep. Brad Daw, R-Orem, died on a narrow vote last week but was resurrected on Tuesday. He insisted the legislation was a necessary companion to House Bill 195, which gives terminally ill patients a "right to try" medical marijuana.
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A former Utah State University student described her rape and the school’s response on Facebook. Now the school is investigating.
Utah State University’s president assured students Friday that there will be a thorough investigation after several former students posted allegations this week on social media of systemic sexual violence and harassment within its music program — including a report that a piano faculty instructor raped a student in 2009.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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