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Fireworks are ignited as all of the countries participating in the Olympic games are announced during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics Friday February 8, 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah. PHOTO BY KEITH JOHNSON

Utah leaders to study 2022 Olympic bid

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 3:30pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials on Wednesday announced the formation of an exploratory committee to consider whether the state should pursue a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

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David Alan Anderson entered a guilty plea to a single count of possessing a dangerous weapon Thursday in Salt Lake City.

Guilty plea in Utah airplane knife smuggling case

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 2:50pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man accused of smuggling a knife onto an airplane and threatening to kill police has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in federal court.

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This image provided by the West Valley City, Utah website shows Mayor Mike Winder Aug. 26, 2010 in Utah. Winder admitted recently to creating a false persona, Richard Burwash, and wrote more than a dozen stories for area publications promoting his city.

Defamation suit filed against pen-named W. Valley mayor

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 2:48pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah mayor who wrote news stories under a false identify was sued for defamation on the same day he announced he will seek the Republican nomination to run for Salt Lake County mayor.

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Parents say child's suicide was result of bullying at school, sue Sanpete district

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 1:28pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah couple has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a school district that claims it failed to protect their son from years of bullying, hazing and false sex assault allegations that led to his suicide.

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File - In this August 23, 2010 photo 14 Steel crosses line the northbound side of Interstate 15 in Hurricane, Utah Each cross represents a Utah Highway Patrolman that fell in the line of duty. A federal judge is being asked to sign final settlement papers in a lawsuit over the 14 roadside crosses. The papers were submitted to U.S. District Judge David Sam on Friday Jan.13,2012. The agreement calls for the removal of the crosses from Utah's highways and other location by Feb. 26. (AP Photo/Cobb Condie/Salt Lake Tribune, File)

Judge asked to sign final order in highway cross dispute

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 10:00am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Final settlement papers in a lawsuit over 14 roadside crosses honoring Utah troopers killed in the line of duty have been submitted to the courts and are awaiting the approval of a federal judge, court records show.

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Imprisoned Jeffs imposes change on polygamous sect

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 3:20pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs may be serving a life-plus-20-year sentence in a Texas prison, but his grip on most of his 10,000 followers doesn't appear to be lessening and some former insiders say he's imposing even more rigid requirements that are roiling the church and splitting its members.

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Utah abortion doctor to face murder charge in Maryland

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 12:08pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah doctor has waived extradition proceedings and will be transported to Maryland to face felony murder charges after a botched late-term abortion in 2010.

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Ex-Box Elder deputy faces 2nd lawsuit over illegal strip search

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 6:38am

Attorneys claimed in court documents filed Wednesday that deputy Scott R. Womack pulled over Talia S. Buck while she was driving near Brigham City and forced her to show her back and lower abdomen to prove she had no tattoos.

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Reality TV polygamous family launches challenge of Utah law

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 19, 2011 - 4:14pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Reality TV stars Kody Brown and his four wives say they just want one thing: to be left alone.

As authorities investigate them for bigamy, the TLC "Sister Wives" family is asking a federal judge to overturn part of Utah's bigamy law because it bans them from living together and criminalizes sexual relationships between unmarried consenting adults.

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FILE - In this publicity file image provided by TLC, Kody Brown, center, poses with his wives, from left, Robyn, Christine, Meri and Janelle in a promotional photo for the reality series, "Sister Wives." The polygamous family made famous on the TLC show is asking a U.S. judge not to block their challenge of Utah's bigamy law. Kody Brown and wives Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn filed a lawsuit in Salt Lake City's U.S. District Court in July 2011. The stars say the law is unconstitutional because it prohibits them from living together and criminalizes their private sexual relationships. (AP Photo/TLC, George Lange, File)

Judge to consider 'Sister Wives' challenge of Utah bigamy law

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 1:47pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Attorneys for a polygamous family made famous on a reality television show on Friday asked a Utah federal judge not to block their challenge of the state’s bigamy law.

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Cache man pleads not guilty to stealing trade secrets

Jennifer Dobner, Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:22am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A scientist has pleaded not guilty to charges that he stole trade secrets from a Cache County chemistry company.

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(The Associated Press) This image provided by CMH Entertainment shows the June entry of the calendar “Men on a Mission.” This 2012 edition of pin-up calendar featuring bare-chested former Mormon church missionaries will be the last printing of the controversial project, its creator says. Calendar creator Chad Hardy says the five-year project has run its course.

2012 Mormon missionary calendar is last in series

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 4:38pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The 2012 edition of a pin-up calendar featuring bare-chested former Mormon missionaries will be the last printing of the controversial project which prompted the excommunication of its creator by the church.

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Utah highway crosses get a makeover

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 18, 2011 - 5:25pm

Utah highway crosses get a makeover

Eds: Updates with details and quotes.

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Polygamous sect leader's daughter pleads guilty

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 2:15pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The daughter of a Utah polygamous sect leader involved in four 1988 Texas murders has pleaded guilty to a federal contempt charge, ending a decades-long family crime saga.

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Utah Highway Patrol troopers stand at attention during the July 2002 dedication of two memorial markers erected to honor Lt. S. Rettberg and Trooper George Dee Rees, both of whom were killed in the line of duty. (ROBERT JOHNSON/Standard-Examiner)

Supreme Court avoids dispute over Utah highway crosses

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 9:08pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would not hear an appeal of a ruling that 12-foot-high crosses along Utah highways in honor of dead state troopers violate the Constitution.

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