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Police say they will proactively enforce teen driver cellphone ban

Last updated Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 6:04am

OGDEN — Teen drivers are advised to put their cellphones down while driving their vehicles or they will be cited, police say.

The new bill restricting use of the wireless telephone, passed by the 2013 state Legislature, took effect today. The law restricts anyone younger than 18 from using a cellphone while operating a vehicle.

“We will enforce it,” Davis County Sheriff’s Sgt. Susan Poulsen said of the law that includes a $25 citation.

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Daydreaming causes more fatal accidents than cellphone use

Noah Buhayar Bloomberg News

Last updated Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 10:24am

NEW YORK — Drivers involved in fatal car crashes were more often “lost in thought” than distracted by mobile phones, police data show.

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Bill crashes; teens can still use cellphones while driving

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 8:26pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Legislation banning teens from using a cellphone while driving has been killed in the Senate.

Senators voted 11-13 Tuesday afternoon to defeat HB 103, which would have implemented a ban on cellphone use for drivers ages 16 and 17. The bill would have made the offense a misdemeanor.

House sponsor Rep. Lee Perry, R-Perry, said the legislation isn’t completely dead.

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Ban on teens driving while talking on cellphone passes Utah House

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 12:28am

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill banning teenagers from using cellphones while driving is one step closer to reality.

The House voted 48-22 Monday afternoon to move HB 103, dealing with teens and cellphones, to the Senate for further consideration.

Sponsored by Rep. Lee Perry, R-Brigham City, the measure would make it a misdemeanor for 16- and 17-year-olds to talk and drive. Perry has described the measure as a best practice intended to reduce the number of accidents for distracted teen drivers.

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Measure to limit cellphone use to drivers 18 and older moves to House

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 12:36am

SALT LAKE CITY — Elissa Schee lost her 13-year-old daughter to a distracted driver on his cellphone.

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Bill would ban Utah teens from using cell phones while driving

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 7:09pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Elissa Schee lost her 13-year-old daughter to a distracted driver on his cell phone.

The Cottonwood Heights mother spoke Wednesday in support of a bill that would limit cell phone use to drivers 18 or older.

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Survey: 1 in 4 U.S. teens have sexted

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 11, 2013 - 12:22am

CLINTON — Approximately 25 percent of teenagers have sent a sexually explicit image of themselves to another person.

In addition, approximately 50 percent of teens have received a sexually explicit image from someone else, even when they did not want or ask for the image.

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Commercial driver cellphone use hit in Utah Senate bill

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 11:09pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Use of a cellphone by commercial drivers while behind the wheel will be illegal as part of a bill that cleared the Senate on Thursday.

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Yoga instructor Alice Van Ness (left) instructs student Melanie Gurunathan at Lifestretch Yoga in Milipitas, Calif. Vann Ness has been fired for her disapproving stink-eye glare at a Facebook employee using a cellphone in class.

Instructor fired for stink eye? Inconceivable

Fenit Nirappil The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, July 14, 2012 - 11:11pm

SAN FRANCISCO — Looks may not kill, but they can get you fired.

That’s what a Northern California yoga instructor found after leading sessions at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus.

The instructor, Alice Van Ness, said she got fired after she glared at a Facebook employee who texted during a class in June.

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iPhone soon to be available on prepaid Cricket network

Leslie Meredith Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 7:26am

Beginning June 22, cellphone provider Cricket Wireless will sell the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, making it the first no-contract wireless provider to do so. Cricket has offered partial subsidies on the phones -- about $150 off what Apple charges for "unlocked" handsets that you purchase directly from Apple, rather than from a carrier.

This is a breakthrough for prepaid service providers. While prepaid phone selections have gotten much better over the past year or so, Android smartphones haven't been enough to overcome the stigma of prepaid service. But the iPhone could do it.

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ACLU questions cellphone tracking policies of law enforcement

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 6:30am

OGDEN — The Weber County Sheriff’s Office typically doesn’t obtain probable cause warrants to track cellphones in criminal investigations, according to a new national study by the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Ogden School District principals, resource officers and specialists met Wednesday to talk about initial actions they would take if an earthquake damaged Ogden High School and trapped people in the gym during a night game. (NANCY VAN VALKENBURG/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden district officials consider procedures in case of quake

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 9:00pm

OGDEN — Principals and specialists knew they had been called to an Ogden School District meeting Wednesday to talk about earthquake preparedness in schools.

What they didn’t know before the meeting started was that they would be given a catastrophic scenario and be asked to work through the first-responder steps to secure the safety of students.

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Using cellphones to access Facebook while driving will be illegal

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 7:50pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Using cellphones to access Facebook, the Internet or send pictures will no longer be legal while driving in Utah.

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Police: Phone was distraction crash that killed USU student

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 5:21pm

LOGAN -- An ongoing investigation shows an 18-year-old Utah State University student was distracted by a phone when she died in a January crash in Idaho, minutes after posting on Facebook.

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