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Jazz lose to Heat in yet another close game
Ryan Miller, KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 11:18 p.m. | Save Story
Something funny has happened over the last few weeks: The Utah Jazz have become a competitive basketball team.
Utah's flu cases are spiking
Emma Benson, KSL-TV | Posted Jan. 9 - 10:37 p.m. | Save Story
Utah has seen a big spike in severe flu cases, with 829 reported hospitalizations statewide, according to data from Dec. 29 to Jan. 4.
Tracking Trump's Day 1 promises
Samuel Benson, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 9 - 10:03 p.m. | Save Story
President-elect Donald Trump vows to waste little time in rolling out his policy priorities.
Teen sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his 13-year-old sister
Emily Ashcraft, KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 9:37 p.m. | Save Story
Joseph Landers was sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his 13-year-old sister after pleading guilty to manslaughter in September.
Police pursue, stop semi near Beaver just before it catches fire
Jenny Rollins for KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 8:37 p.m. | Save Story
Utah Highway Patrol and Sevier County police pursued and stopped a semitruck just before it burst into flames late Thursday afternoon.
Newly elected Black and Latino officials take office in Utah, representing historic firsts
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 8:35 p.m. | Save Story
Two newly elected Black officials and two newly elected Latinos took office this week, representing historic firsts in Utah.
Appeals court denies bid to block public release of special counsel's report on Trump Jan. 6 probe
Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 9 - 8:02 p.m. | Save Story
A federal appeals court has denied a bid to block the public release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
60 pounds of meth seized in Utah County traffic stop
Pat Reavy, KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 7:34 p.m. | Save Story
A traffic stop in Utah County led to a large drug bust on Wednesday.
Urgent care coming to Utah schools
Mike Anderson, KSL-TV | Posted Jan. 9 - 7:11 p.m. | Save Story
The Weber School District is one of seven school districts across the state that are rolling out a program designed to bring telehealth urgent care visits to schools.
Will Biden's new ban on offshore drilling stand?
Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 9 - 6:40 p.m. | Save Story
President Joe Biden has announced prohibitions on future oil and gas drilling across parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the Northern Bering Sea.
Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case
Lindsay Whitehurst, Michael Hill, and Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press | Updated Jan. 9 - 6:26 p.m. | Save Story
A sharply divided Supreme Court has rejected President-elect Donald Trump's bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case.
Suazo Business Center gets new board members to help in its efforts to aid Latino entrepreneurs
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 5:52 p.m. | Save Story
Suazo Business Center has named six new board members, meant to help the organization fine-tune its approach to helping Latino and other minority entrepreneurs.
Illinois man files class action lawsuit over experience during Park City Mountain strike
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 5:13 p.m. | Save Story
An Illinois man filed a class action lawsuit against Vail Resorts over Park City Mountain's strike-related disruptions, which he called a "nightmare."
Man gets consecutive sentences for killing 2-year-old stepdaughter in child abuse case
Emily Ashcraft, KSL.com | Updated Jan. 9 - 5:11 p.m. | Save Story
Randy Lessing was sentenced to prison on Tuesday in an emotional hearing where the mother of the 2-year-old child who died spoke about her grief and the judge encouraged Lessing to take accountability.
Senate Democrats help advance Republican bill on migrants accused of crimes
Richard Cowan and Bo Erickson, Reuters | Posted Jan. 9 - 4:51 p.m. | Save Story
More than half the U.S. Senate's Democrats joined with Republicans on Thursday to advance a bill that would require the federal government to detain migrants living in the country illegally who are suspected of crimes, even if they are not charged.
Dozens of Utah firefighters head to California to help battle Los Angeles area fires
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Updated Jan. 9 - 4:37 p.m. | Save Story
Over 60 Utah firefighters are heading to California to help battle a series of devastating fires in the Los Angeles area.
These were Utah's 7 new fishing records set over the past year
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 4:08 p.m. | Save Story
Several anglers left 2024 with a fascinating new Utah fishing story to tell by landing in the state's record book.
Have You Seen This? Lawn decoration fools toddler
Grant Olsen for KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 3:48 p.m. | Save Story
It's like coaches and parents have been saying for years: "If at first you don't succeed, keep testing that artificial candy cane to see if it somehow becomes real."
Jimmy Carter honored in Salt Lake City and elsewhere by Habitat for Humanity with ceremonial wall
Ivy Farguheson, KSL.com | Posted Jan. 9 - 3:05 p.m. | Save Story
Habitat for Humanity Greater Salt Lake Area held a ceremony to raise and bless a memorial wall inside the Salt Lake ReStore in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter.
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