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Bluth, energetic former Sandy mayor, dies at 86 05/17/2008 02:33:12 AM GMT
Posted: 8:17 PM- Dewey Bluth didn't just sit back and enjoy the entertainment while vacationing in Mexico. He slapped on a sombrero, jumped up on stage and sang along with the mariachi group.

Utahns rally to help cyclone victims 05/17/2008 02:32:44 AM GMT
Posted: 8:12 PM- He was comfortably tied up in meetings, his cell phone off and e-mail inaccessible, as 120 mph winds and tidal surges slammed his home country.

Tailings: Truck or rail? 05/17/2008 02:26:57 AM GMT
Posted: 8:27 PM- Officials from the U.S. Energy Department toured the Atlas tailings cleanup site in Moab last week as deliberations continued on whether trucks or trains should be used to haul away the massive uranium waste pile.

Governor wants state to drop private club laws 05/17/2008 02:26:56 AM GMT
Posted: 8:13 PM- Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. boosted the hopes of imbibers frustrated with confusing liquor laws by proposing today that the state do away with private club memberships to boost tourism.

Public invited to talk about selenium in Great Salt Lake 05/17/2008 02:26:53 AM GMT
Posted: 8:26 PM- The Great Salt Lake stands out as one of Utah's extraordinary treasures, and plans are being made to set new water quality standards to protect it.

West Bountiful goes back to RAP 05/17/2008 02:26:52 AM GMT
Posted: 8:27 PM- West Bountiful missed approving the Recreation, Arts and Park tax in 2007 by one vote. Then, the city missed the deadline for a recount by 14 days.

Holladay Pharmacy says goodbye 05/17/2008 02:26:51 AM GMT
Posted: 8:13 PM- HOLLADAY - Gordon Hanks has driven to the neighborhood pharmacy at 4610 S. Holladay Blvd., donned a white smock and dispensed prescriptions there almost every day for 42 years.

Judge orders Kane County to remove road signs in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 05/17/2008 02:26:48 AM GMT
Posted: 8:15 PM- Kane County's ongoing bid to claim ownership of roads in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and surrounding federal lands suffered a serious, and perhaps fatal, blow today.

Republican chairman files complaint against NAACP 05/17/2008 02:26:39 AM GMT
Posted: 8:18 PM- The head of the Salt Lake County Republican Party says officials of the NAACP's Salt Lake chapter violated the organization's nonprofit status by vowing to help defeat Utah Sen. Chris Buttars after the senator made racially offensive remarks.

Box Elder will vote on landfill 05/17/2008 02:26:38 AM GMT
Posted: 8:16 PM- BRIGHAM CITY - Box Elder County residents will get to vote after all on the sale of their Little Mountain Landfill to a regional landfill authority.

Swimmers sound off on pool rules 05/17/2008 02:26:29 AM GMT
Posted: 8:15 PM- While some adult swimmers urged the state health department to ban diapered children from pools this summer, it's not going to happen.

Police searching for man who robbed Sandy bank 05/17/2008 02:26:24 AM GMT
Posted: 8:25 PM- A man escaped with an undisclosed amount of money after robbing the First Utah Bank in Sandy on today, police said.

Utah actor arrested for robbing pizza parlor 05/17/2008 02:26:23 AM GMT
Posted: 8:07 PM- A Utah teenager known for acting roles in Disney's "High School Musical" and as a quirky medieval warrior in anti-tobacco television commercials has been arrested on suspicion of robbing a Holladay pizza shop at gunpoint.

Man found dead in wrecked car in canyon 05/17/2008 02:26:22 AM GMT
Posted: 8:08 PM- A West Valley City man was found dead Friday in a car in Little Cottonwood Canyon.
An employee at Snowbird was setting up cones in the resort's parking lot and spotted a car in a creek around 8 a.m., said Salt Lake County sheriff's Lt.

Anti-poverty advocates give Becker an earful 05/17/2008 02:26:20 AM GMT
Posted: 8:16 PM- Memo to the mayor: Rising bus fares, proliferating payday lenders and inadequate low-income housing are wreaking havoc on Salt Lake City's impoverished.

Utah PC Club stores reopen 05/17/2008 12:55:47 AM GMT
Posted: 6:57 PM- Three Utah PC Club stores have reopened after their chain was acquired by Los Angeles firm.
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Huntsman backs oil shale development 05/16/2008 07:26:31 PM GMT
WASHINGTON - Congress should allow regulations to be finalized on developing oil shale in Utah and other states, or miss out on a potential boom of domestic energy production, according to advocates that include Gov.

Broadweave Networks expands further after iProvo purchase 05/16/2008 04:58:36 PM GMT
Posted: 11:00 AM- SOUTH JORDAN - Nine days after agreeing to buy iProvo, Broadweave Networks has purchased one of the

In tough times, shoppers buy small 05/16/2008 03:26:36 PM GMT
NEW YORK - Shoppers have been lugging ever-larger products to their ever-bigger cars for years. Now, more of them are feeling so pinched by the sagging economy that they are embracing a new behavior: buying a little at a time.

Utah business in brief 05/16/2008 05:43:46 AM GMT
Salt Lake City-based advertising and public relations firm Penna Powers Brian Haynes has announced that Springville-based W.W. Clyde & Co., a heavy civil construction firm, has named PPBH as its agency of record.

Consumer News 05/16/2008 05:43:46 AM GMT
Cash-strapped drinkers are starting to trade down to economy beers, the chief executive of Miller Brewing Co. said Thursday. The Milwaukee-based brewer saw some shift between higher-priced, premium beers and economy beers such as Miller High Life and Milwaukee's Best starting in

Visa, MasterCard forced to negotiate? 05/16/2008 05:43:46 AM GMT
Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. are trying to derail legislation co-sponsored by Utah Rep. Chris Cannon that would give merchants the power to negotiate fees for processing customers' credit cards.

JetBlue to cut capacity in response to fuel costs 05/16/2008 05:43:46 AM GMT
JetBlue Airways Corp., the low-cost carrier partly owned by Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa AG, doesn't expect oil prices to decline soon and reaffirmed plans to cut capacity in the fourth quarter.

Business Digest 05/16/2008 05:43:46 AM GMT
CompanionsOwner of escort service charged with tax evasion Two Utahns have been charged with attempted income tax evasion for failing to report income received from an escort service.

Novell names venture capitalist as its new nonexecutive chairman 05/16/2008 05:43:46 AM GMT
Novell Inc., the second-largest seller of Linux operating-system software in the United States, named Richard Crandall to replace Thomas Plaskett as nonexecutive chairman.

Business Glance 05/16/2008 05:43:46 AM GMT
Ben Bernanke Fed chief: Banks need to better protect themselves Commercial banks and other financial institutions need to beef up their ability to detect and protect themselves against risks like the credit

Icahn threatens Yahoo board - fallout of failed bid 05/16/2008 05:40:26 AM GMT
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn threatened to seek control of Yahoo! Inc.'s board if the Internet company doesn't revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp.

Private equity group ready to invest again 05/16/2008 05:40:23 AM GMT
Peterson Partners, a private equity company in Salt Lake City, has raised $120 million for an investment fund from backers that include JetBlue Airways founder David Neeleman and Dave Checketts, owner of Real Salt Lake.

Dan's, Macey's to stop selling tobacco products 05/16/2008 05:40:16 AM GMT
Fifteen Dan's and Macey's grocery stores no longer will sell tobacco products starting June 1, joining three other Utah supermarkets that have stopped selling cigarettes, company officials said on Thursday.

Another day, another record for gas prices 05/16/2008 05:40:14 AM GMT
The pain at the pump really is getting worse each day. The average cost of a gallon of unleaded gasoline in Utah has hit a record high every day except for three since April 12, according to travel services agency AAA Utah.

California same-sex unions will have no Utah legal standing 05/16/2008 06:26:09 AM GMT
Gay-rights activists in Utah see the California Supreme Court's ruling to allow gay marriage as a victory, though they acknowledge it is only a symbolic one for same-sex couples in the Beehive State.

Legislature's top lawyer on the way out 05/16/2008 05:51:52 AM GMT
A special legislative panel has recommended hiring John Fellows to become the Legislature's next top lawyer, replacing M. Gay Taylor who is retiring from the general counsel post after 23 years on the job.

California same-sex unions will have no legal standing in Utah 05/16/2008 04:20:23 AM GMT
Posted: 10:21 PM- Gay-rights activists in Utah see the California Supreme Court's ruling to allow gay marriage as a victory, though they acknowledge it is only a symbolic one for same-sex couples in the Beehive State.

Utah Democrats trying to convert Republicans 05/16/2008 04:17:48 AM GMT
Posted: 10:19 PM- Several Republican legislators were romanced earlier this year by Democratic leaders, promising the moderate lawmakers thousands of dollars in campaign aid - tens of thousands according to one lawmaker - if they switched parties.

U.S. House bill gets tough on residential therapy camps 05/15/2008 12:19:05 PM GMT
WASHINGTON - A House committee signed off on a bill Wednesday that would toughen regulations on residential treatment programs, including the wilderness therapy camps that operate throughout central and southern Utah.

Paycheck Act tangled up in courts - again 05/15/2008 06:21:21 AM GMT
The Utah Education Association is going to have to wait to celebrate their seeming victory over the Legislature earlier this year. The so-called Paycheck Protection Act, which the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver overturned as unconstitutional on Jan.

Arizona judge delays ruling on Jeffs' incest charges 05/16/2008 11:02:46 PM GMT
Posted: 5:01 PM- KINGMAN, Ariz. - Lawyers for imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs asked a judge to drop incest charges Friday afternoon in a Mohave County, Ariz. courtroom, but the judge did not rule on the request.

Another FLDS settlement takes root in Colorado 05/15/2008 08:37:01 PM GMT
Posted: 2:36 PM- Another Colorado colony of the polygamy-practicing Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has taken root, this one at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 50 miles west of Pueblo.

Texas governor defends agency's treatment of children from compound 05/15/2008 08:28:08 PM GMT
Posted: 1:52 PM- AUSTIN, Texas - Texas Gov. Rick Perry voiced strong support for Child Protective Services officials Wednesday even as a social services official in the state's Hill Country expressed more outrage over the treatment of 464 children removed by the state from a West Texas polygamist compound.

Former FLDS member gets favorable 10th Circuit Court ruling 05/15/2008 07:04:21 PM GMT
Posted: 1:05 PM- DENVER -- Go to the audiotape.
A federal appeals court revived a portion of a lawsuit that claims a man was not rehired at a cabinet company because he quit a southern Utah polygamous sect. Some evidence is on tape.

LDS says Wikileaks web site violated its policy handbook copyrights 05/15/2008 12:21:14 PM GMT
A Web site that publishes anonymous submissions of difficult-to-obtain or private documents describes the LDS Church Handbook of Instructions a source sent it as significant because the book is strictly confidential among Mormon leaders.

Jazz update: Jackson says Kobe ready for Game 6 05/16/2008 09:34:29 PM GMT
Posted: 3:35 PM- After the Lakers' shootaround Friday at EnergySolutions Arena, coach Phil Jackson declared Kobe Bryant ready to go for Game 6.

RSL: Real Madrid pulls out of Aug. 9 visit to SLC 05/16/2008 09:17:08 PM GMT
Posted: 3:17 PM- The slumping American economy has claimed another victim - Real Salt Lake's summertime exhibition game against Real Madrid.

Jazz Friday update: Sloan calls AK visa issue 'miscommunication' 05/16/2008 07:11:55 PM GMT
Posted: 12:33 PM- Jazz coach Jerry Sloan walked off the court after Friday's pregame shootaround, headed to his usual spot to answer questions and immediately set out to defuse the controversy over Andrei Kirilenko's absence from practice the day before.

BYU's Plaisted confirms signing with agent 05/16/2008 06:59:32 PM GMT
Posted: 12:56 PM- As first reported by The Salt Lake Tribune, Brigham Young's Trent Plaisted confirmed today that he has signed with an agent and will enter the 2008 NBA Draft.

Monson: Conspiracy paranoia runs wild in Jazzland 05/16/2008 05:46:49 PM GMT
Please, somebody tell them to stop. OK, I'll tell them to stop, and take the beating for it. To all the Jazz fans who are crying .

BYU Basketball: Plaisted hires an agent 05/16/2008 05:17:35 PM GMT
Trent Plaisted has signed with an agent and will not return to Brigham Young for his senior season, according to sources.

Ogden Marathon: Runner knows secret to success 05/16/2008 03:14:19 PM GMT
Author and former Olympian Jeff Galloway says he knows the secret to running a fast, enjoyable and injury-free marathon. Walking. It might sound counter-intuitive, but Galloway - whose books and training programs have made him one of the nation's most popular

Sports in brief 05/16/2008 03:03:07 PM GMT
GolfSorenstam leads at Sybase Classic Annika Sorenstam shot a 5-under 67 on Thursday for a share of the first-round lead in the Sybase Classic in Clifton, N.

MLB notes: 'Insensitive' T-shirts disturbing to Cubs 05/16/2008 03:01:32 PM GMT
The Cubs' attempt to prevent vendors from selling racially insensitive T-shirts outside Wrigley Field apparently have hit a snag. The T-shirts, which feature a cartoon of a slanty-eyed bear Cub with oversized, Harry Caray-style glasses and the words ''Horry Kow'' written on the

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