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4 weeks 15 hours agoAugust 8, 2008
20:44
An unemployed graphic designer who pleaded guilty to possessing toxic ricin said Friday he distilled the lethal powder in 1998 while living in San Diego from the beans of a backyard castor plant, and carried it with him for a decade while living in Reno, Las Vegas and near Salt Lake City.
20:41
Salt Lake County sheriff's officers are investigating an apparent homicide here that left a 51-year-old woman dead and a neighborhood man in custody.
18:02
One of the largest and most visible arches in Arches National Park has collapsed.
17:28
PROVO One man is in custody, but police are still looking for a second suspect in the kidnapping of a 24-year-old Provo woman last weekend.
16:19
Is the LDS Church on the threshold of a big push into environmental sustainability? The message in a Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium panel discussion Friday at the Sheraton Hotel seems to concur.
15:44
An address last fall by the general president of the LDS Relief Society on motherhood continues to raise discussion and disagreement nearly a year after it was delivered.
14:27
Is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the threshold of a big push into environmental sustainability?
14:03
A man with $50,000 in outstanding warrants not only drew a lot of attention to himself Friday, but gave police two chances to catch him.
12:40
The small southern Utah town of Blanding was in deep mourning Friday as three of its residents, including two current members of the Blanding City Council and a former member, were killed in a plane crash near the Monticello Airport this morning.
12:18
Court hearings in Texas on whether to place eight children taken in the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch in foster care are now slated to begin later this month.
11:44
Not everyone was ready today for the first Friday closures under Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s new four-day work week, especially at the Division of Motor Vehicles.
11:37
A man and his wife escaped injury early this morning by crawling out of their window and down a ladder after a fire broke out in their business.
10:52
Police in South Jordan were in hot pursuit Thursday evening of a fleeing bull.
10:51
The investigation continued Friday into a tragic accident in a South Jordan driveway that claimed the life of a 3-year-old boy.
00:25
Along with a lawsuit filed this week over water on the Utah/Nevada border, Great Basin Water Network expects to file a petition today appealing Nevada State Engineer Tracy Taylor's ruling last month that granted almost 19,000 acre-feet of water rights to the Southern Nevada Water Authority to supply Las Vegas with water.
00:24
A former beauty queen whose obsession with an LDS Church missionary made international tabloid headlines 30 years ago appears to be the same woman who had her dog cloned in South Korea this week.
00:18
City Councilman George Stewart blames his recent decision to resign from the council to serve a church mission on the Mormon Times.
00:09
Utahn Kelsey Nixon didn't win the "The Next Food Network Star" reality series, but viewers voted her the Fan Favorite with 37 percent of the vote.
00:09
The "Last Comic Standing" is not a Utahn. West Jordan native Marcus made it to the final two of the NBC reality/competition show but went home as the runner-up.
00:09
A broad coalition of football and basketball coaches, athletic directors and college presidents is asking the NCAA to ban beer commercials from college sports broadcasts.
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