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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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‘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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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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Why NASA Is Watching Where Idaho’s Parachuting Beavers Landed
The mini-paratroopers have a new role to play today.
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Utah Bill that requires statewide removal of school library books deemed pornographic by 3 districts close to passage
Bill sought to refine legislation passed 2 years ago that floor sponsor Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, said led to ‘some ludicrous results where people were challenging the Qur’an, the Bible and other books of scripture.’
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