Utahn bought a cruise ship on Craigslist and spent over $1M restoring it. Then his dream sank

Have You Seen This? Water truck douses flames faster than firefighters can

Matt Brooks, KSL.com  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 3:30 p.m.  |  Save Story

Firefighters in box fire in California arrived on scene to handle a box truck fire, but a passing water truck managed the flames within seconds.

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Is your app business using these tech stacks? If not, you might be losing customers

Utah Tech Labs  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 3:00 p.m.  |  Save Story

One of the globe's leading tech community platforms, Stackoverflow, has released its highly anticipated technology stack reports.

West Valley man charged with stabbing, attempting to kill his girlfriend

Pat Reavy, KSL.com  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 2:44 p.m.  |  Save Story

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a West Valley man accused of stabbing his girlfriend multiple times.

NeuroPong: How this game is helping people fight neurological conditions in St. George

Mori Kessler, St. George News  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 2:06 p.m.  |  Save Story

A program called NeuroPong aims to help people with neurodegenerative and other neurological conditions.

14 killed, 450 wounded in second day of explosions in Lebanon

Johnson Lai, Justin Spike and Bassem Mroue, Associated Press  |  Updated Sept. 18 - 2:00 p.m.  |  Save Story

Lebanon's health ministry says at least 14 people were killed and 450 others wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of the country.

Bountiful gas leak forces closure of 500 South, evacuation of nearby office workers

Collin Leonard, KSL.com  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 1:14 p.m.  |  Save Story

Bountiful employees were fixing a water pipe leak near 525 East and 500 South when they struck a 4" feeder gas line, Wednesday morning.

House speaker takes another crack at spending bill linked to proof of citizenship for new voters

Kevin Freking, Associated Press  |  Updated Sept. 18 - 1:09 p.m.  |  Save Story

The House is scheduled to vote on Speaker Mike Johnson's spending proposal. His plan links the funding of the federal government with a mandate that states require proof of citizenship when people register to vote.

2nd Vernal caretaker charged with beating man with special needs

Pat Reavy, KSL.com  |  Updated Sept. 18 - 1:01 p.m.  |  Save Story

Two managers at a Vernal care facility for people with mental health and other disabilities have been charged with using a wooden dowel to beat one of the residents.

Fed cuts rates by half a percentage point, cites 'greater confidence' on inflation

Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir, Reuters  |  Updated Sept. 18 - 12:21 p.m.  |  Save Story

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half of a percentage point on Wednesday, kicking off what is expected to be a steady easing of monetary policy with a larger-than-usual reduction in borrowing costs.

Flying direct from Salt Lake can cost you more than a connecting flight to the same destination

Matt Gephardt, KSL-TV  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 12:06 p.m.  |  Save Story

The KSL Investigators found people who use Salt Lake City International as a layover often pay less for the same flight than those who book a direct flight from Utah.

Midway boy highlighted in Times Square by National Down Syndrome Society

Tamara Vaifanua, KSL-TV  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 11:32 a.m.  |  Save Story

Young Ian Schreyer of Midway traveled with his parents to the Big Apple to watch his picture display in Times Square.

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Keeping kids in the game while reducing injuries and burnout

University of Utah Health  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 11:30 a.m.  |  Save Story

Changes in sports have resulted in an increasing number of overuse injuries and burnout. These evolving challenges are often based on the trend to get kids into sports specialization at an earlier age.

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Trump pitches himself to Black voters in Flint, Michigan

Samuel Benson, Deseret News  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 11:15 a.m.  |  Save Story

Appearing in a town hall in Flint, a majority-Black city 60 miles north of Detroit, Trump focused his remarks on the economy, promising the audience they would be "better off" financially with him as president.

Utah County sheriff's deputy in unexpected fight of his life with ALS

Andrew Adams, KSL-TV  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 11:01 a.m.  |  Save Story

A Utah County sheriff's deputy has found himself in the fight of his life with something no amount of training could have helped him to prepare for.

Americans can now renew passports online and bypass cumbersome paper applications

Associated Press  |  Updated Sept. 18 - 10:37 a.m.  |  Save Story

Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays.

Midvale wheelchair user asks for more safety measures, attentive driving after getting hit twice

Shelby Lofton, KSL-TV  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 9:55 a.m.  |  Save Story

A Midvale woman is pleading for more safety measures after she was hit by a car twice in her neighborhood.

Utah Legislature votes to join lawsuit on federal lands

Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 9:29 a.m.  |  Save Story

The state Legislature's Management Committee voted Tuesday to file a friend of the court brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Utah Attorney General's lawsuit filed in August over 18.5 million acres of "unappropriated" public lands under federal ownership.

KSL.com prep football Player of the Week: Ridgeline's Nate Dahle

Nathan Dunn, KSL.com  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 9:09 a.m.  |  Save Story

Ridgeline's Nate Dahle has been named KSL.com's Prep Football Player of the Week following his four touchdown effort over Green Canyon

Man charged with soliciting sexually explicit images from southern Utah girl

Cody Blowers, St. George News  |  Posted Sept. 18 - 8:42 a.m.  |  Save Story

A man allegedly found to have sexually explicit images of minors on his cellphone that were exchanged using Snapchat is in custody, Washington County Sheriff's Office said.