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Cannon pushing move to ease oil shale extraction 06/10/2008 02:45:09 AM GMT
Posted: 8:41 PM- WASHINGTON - Riding the public outcry on soaring oil prices, Rep. Chris Cannon is introducing legislation that would allow the president to skip the red tape on permitting oil shale extraction.

High gas prices cutting into entertainment dollar 06/10/2008 02:45:08 AM GMT
Posted: 8:41 PM- This summer, when it comes to entertainment options, more and more Utahns might be choosing "stay-cations" rather than "vacations."

Public rallied to the side of FLDS after raid 06/10/2008 02:45:04 AM GMT
Posted: 8:42 PM- As a district judge heard the state's case for keeping children from a polygamous sect in custody, hundreds of electronic and telephone messages were pouring into Texas Gov. Rick Perry's office.

Free parking will be preserved 06/10/2008 02:45:03 AM GMT
Posted: 8:42 PM- Downtown diners won't be fumbling for change to feed meters at night and shoppers still can bag free parking on Saturday.

Victim's family says ex-cop got favorable deal 06/10/2008 02:45:02 AM GMT
Posted: 8:43 PM- FARMINGTON - When Centerville police Sgt. John F. Spencer erupted into violence at his Layton home, Jeanene Spencer says she found herself trapped - both by her husband and other police officers.

Hill claims Shurtleff is conflicted in possible treasurer's race probe 06/10/2008 02:45:01 AM GMT
Posted: 8:43 PM- Jean Welch Hill, Mark Shurtleff's Democratic challenger in the race for state attorney general, raised concerns Monday over what she views to be an obvious conflict of interest.

LDS Church could make or break deal to ease liquor laws 06/10/2008 02:41:28 AM GMT
Posted: 8:40 PM- Step by step, with some behind-the-scenes moves and others in plain sight, there's a strong push to make the biggest change in Utah liquor laws in nearly 40 years.

WALSH: Recycle right, keep your garbage out 06/09/2008 11:18:59 PM GMT
Posted: 5:17 PM-
"That's a clean load," says John Wilson, looking over a pungent mountain of garbage - smashed cardboard and grocery sacks and plastic bottles disgorged from the back of a compactor truck.

Prison sergeant suspected of stealing $1,100 06/09/2008 10:11:10 PM GMT
Posted: 4:10 PM- A peace officer spent the weekend on the wrong side of jail bars after being accused of stealing a woman's Social Security money.

Capecchi: Stem cell therapies 'more complicated than we thought' 06/09/2008 10:05:48 PM GMT
Posted: 4:04 PM- Stem cells, from both adults and embryos, offer potential paths into an array of regenerative therapies that could cure some of humanity's most vexing diseases.

LDS Church denies allegations of missionaries' misbehavior in Bulgaria 06/09/2008 09:59:48 PM GMT
Posted: 3:58 PM- The LDS Church said an Orthodox Christian priest's allegations that Mormon missionaries interrupted a religious service and had to be removed are "erroneous."

Man gets 4 years in federal prison for FBI hoax 06/09/2008 09:52:38 PM GMT
Posted: 3:51 PM- When Andy Hart tipped off the FBI that some of his associates were plotting to firebomb a mink farm in rural Utah, federal authorities jumped into action.

Charity golf: Whittingham gets best of Mendenhall at NKF tourney 06/09/2008 09:44:38 PM GMT
Posted: 3:43 PM- University of Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham's team beat Brigham Young football coach Bronco Mendenhall's team in the annual Rivalry for Charity golf tournament at The Country Club in Salt Lake City on Monday.

St. George prostitution roundup nets 11 06/09/2008 09:27:23 PM GMT
Posted: 3:26 PM- A prostitution sting in St. George resulted in 21 arrests Saturday, and all of the suspects could face deportation.

Honk! Scenic view included nude man, police say 06/09/2008 09:13:11 PM GMT
Posted: 3:12 PM- Police in eastern Utah arrested a naked man they say was jumping in front of cars on a highway.

Salmonella outbreak has eateries, markets in Utah pulling tomatoes 06/09/2008 08:24:11 PM GMT
Updated: 1:59 PM- Some restaurants, fast-food chains and supermarkets in Utah and other states are pulling three types of tomatoes from store shelves and menus as the U.S. government continues to hunt for the source of a salmonella outbreak.

NAR: US pending home sales move higher 06/09/2008 07:29:38 PM GMT
Posted: 1:28 PM- NEW YORK - Pending home sales unexpectedly increased in April to the highest reading since October, an industry group said Monday, but they remain more than 13 percent below a year ago.

Sub-$4 gas? Ah, the good ol' days 06/09/2008 03:26:14 PM GMT
Posted: 8:58 AM- NEW YORK - Retail gas prices rose further above a national average of $4 Monday, as distributors and retailers hiked prices in response to Friday's unprecedented rally in the oil futures market.

Stocks mixed after last week's sell-off as oil dips 06/09/2008 02:18:28 PM GMT
Posted: 8:17 AM- NEW YORK - Wall Street traded mixed Monday as a pullback in oil prices encouraged investors to try to recover some of last week's losses.

The week ahead 06/09/2008 05:30:54 AM GMT
June 9-15 Convention Calendar Today: ' Travelink Inc.

Small cities brace for lack of airline service 06/09/2008 05:18:28 AM GMT
The rejection from Air Midwest came swiftly on a one-page fax. The carrier couldn't afford to fly to the mountain community of Prescott, Ariz., anymore, officials said.

Web browser for autistic kids eliminates frustration 06/09/2008 05:18:27 AM GMT
John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so confounded him that he threw the mouse in frustration.

Trade routes: Sea rivalry simmering 06/09/2008 05:18:26 AM GMT
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka - This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka's southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over energy supply routes that fuel much of the global economy.

Serious about safety 06/08/2008 04:15:51 AM GMT
At Dairyway Transport in Tremonton, on-the-job safety is very much a family affair, with the spouses of employees invited to attend the company's regular quarterly safety meetings.

VesCor escaped scrutiny in 2005 06/07/2008 07:23:45 PM GMT
In mid-2005, the director of the Division of Securities told state investigators to "stand down" in their probe of Val E. Southwick, the Ogden businessman who pleaded guilty in March in what appears to be the largest financial fraud in Utah history.

Senate told speculators causing oil madness 06/07/2008 07:06:03 PM GMT
WASHINGTON - One is a billionaire financier and the other operates seven gas stations and convenience stores in a farming community of 7,000 in eastern Washington state.

Small talk: If you hire your kids, treat them like everyone else 06/07/2008 07:06:03 PM GMT
Around the country, millions of teenagers are starting their first jobs - working in their parents' small businesses. Whether the experience is positive or negative can depend on a variety of factors, especially whether parent and child are able to put aside their familial relationship while they

On the job: A few things summer interns should know 06/07/2008 07:06:03 PM GMT
It must be summer: Employees are leaving on vacation, the company picnic has been set and, oh yeah - the interns have arrived. Interns usually arrive full of eagerness and intelligence, but often lacking any real-world experience in how a business operates.

Tradewinds 06/07/2008 07:06:03 PM GMT
Jeremy Hudson has joined Big-D Construction as a project manager. Hudson has more than 12 years of experience in the construction industry; his specialties are estimation and project management.

Some on Wall Street are predicting sharp slip in oil prices 06/07/2008 07:06:02 PM GMT
Is there an oil bubble that is about to burst? The commodity's spike to nearly $140 a barrel on Friday wouldn't lead many to think so, but some big voices on Wall Street are predicting the oil market could tilt sharply south soon if the U.

Polygamous sect's no-underage-marriage vow: Will it be honored? 06/09/2008 12:06:37 PM GMT
For years, a polygamous sect seemed willing to risk everything in a standoff with government over underage marriages: property, prophet, progeny. Now, a week after a church elder delivered a statement saying the FLDS Church would no longer sanction such marriages, the question

How do FLDS know whom they're going to marry? 06/09/2008 06:41:00 AM GMT
The FLDS do not court or date. Typically, a girl and/or her parents decide she is mature enough to marry and submit her name to the prophet. That timing varies from family to family; some girls have said they believed they were ready for marriage before their parents did and

Polygamy-issues panel has new leader 06/07/2008 06:53:23 AM GMT
A committee that has worked as a liaison between polygamous communities and government officials in Utah has a new coordinator. The Utah Attorney General's Office announced Friday that Pat Merkley has been hired to lead the Safety Net Committee.

New leader for government liason to polygamous communities 06/06/2008 11:30:11 PM GMT
Posted: 5:28 PM- A committee that has worked as a liaison between polygamous communities and government officials in Utah has a new coordinator.

Court hearing for accused bogus FLDS ranch-raid tipster postponed 06/06/2008 08:17:10 PM GMT
Posted: 10:08 AM- COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A court hearing here for the woman believed to have prompted the Texas law enforcement raid on the FLDS compound has been postponed.

LDS 1978 blacks-in-the-priesthood decision: Why did it take so long? 06/09/2008 12:03:16 PM GMT
Why did it take until 1978 for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to extend its priesthood to "all worthy males"? It's an "unsettling question," says Fred A. Parker III, president of the church's Atlanta Georgia Stake.

Amram Musungu 06/08/2008 07:40:38 AM GMT
The first white hand Amram Musungu ever shook belonged to a Mormon missionary. It was 1992, and the 14-year-old Musungu had come for high school from his home in western Kenya to live with his brothers in Nairobi.

Darius Gray 06/08/2008 07:40:24 AM GMT
Darius Gray is tired. He has spent the past 44 years wrestling with the LDS Church's ban on blacks in the priesthood and defending his membership in a church that once discriminated against blacks and still doesn't acknowledge its racist past.

Jesse Stott 06/08/2008 07:40:07 AM GMT
He's gone to pick up first dates and had fathers turn him away. A gas-station attendant in Sandy recently blocked him from filling his car's tank. Cops have pulled him over, store clerks have followed him and strangers have unleashed countless slurs.

Vanna Cox 06/08/2008 07:39:53 AM GMT
PROVO - Vanna Cox is a born leader on the basketball court and in her high school. As point guard, Cox ran the plays and united the team; as Provo High School's first black student-body president, she talked about diversity and tolerance at the predominantly Mormon school.

Edmon Washington 06/08/2008 07:39:35 AM GMT
A ward of the court starting in infancy, Edmon Washington grew up testing all sorts of baptismal waters. Catholic, Episcopalian, Pentecostal, Baptist - given his long list of guardians, he'd been them all.

Black voices 06/08/2008 07:39:20 AM GMT
Black Latter-day Saints say they have grown accustomed to defending their faith to other blacks, but they will never understand why they still must defend their race to other Mormons.

Mormon and Black 06/08/2008 07:36:56 AM GMT
The first time she was ever called the most offensive of racial slurs, Tamu Smith was in the Salt Lake LDS temple. An elderly man spied Smith, a new bride, and asked aloud what a [racial epithet] was doing there.

LDS Classic is reborn 06/07/2008 01:39:29 AM GMT
Who knew what would become of Jimmy Flinders? Doug Stewart certainly didn't know when he created Flinders, a central character in the LDS-themed musical "Saturday's Warrior," 35 years ago.

Mormons dedicate a fifth temple in Brazil 06/07/2008 01:39:28 AM GMT
CURITIBA, Brazil - LDS Church president Thomas Monson dedicated the church's fifth temple in Brazil, a nation where Mormons have both experienced growth and struggled with retention.

Jazz: Corbin shut out of head coaching jobs 06/09/2008 07:18:05 PM GMT
Posted: 12:18 PM- For the third time in the 13 months, Utah Jazz assistant Tyrone Corbin has failed to get a head coaching job after being interviewed.

Ask the Expert: Boozer and A.K. to Denver? 06/09/2008 04:50:00 PM GMT
Posted: 10:48 AM- Question:
With the rumors of a Denver-New Jersey trade involving Carmelo Anthony and Marcus Camby

Utah Jazz: Korver checked in 2 weeks 06/06/2008 07:19:24 AM GMT
After undergoing surgery Wednesday to remove a bone spur on top of his left foot, Jazz swingman Kyle Korver will be re-examined in two weeks and is expected to be able to work out in a pool in three weeks.

Prep football: Preps to use RSL stadium? 06/06/2008 07:19:34 AM GMT
High school football and soccer state championships could have a new home - Real Salt Lake's new soccer stadium in Sandy. Sources from RSL and the Utah High School Activities Association said Thursday afternoon that though an agreement has not been finalized, the Major League

BYU: Freshman hurdler dies in car crash 06/07/2008 07:51:20 AM GMT
PROVO - When her best friend hit a hurdle and fell at a recent track meet, BYU freshman Chelsi Petersen of St. George had to be talked into running her race moments later because she was so concerned her teammate was in distress.

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