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Is your brain aging faster than you? New science offers clues
Mint
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June 30, 2025
Dan Jones liked his job as a quality-control inspector and loved his hobby even more: playing in a local bagpipe band. Then he started making mistakes in the pieces he played. He found himself having to write tasks down if he wanted to remember...
Utah 'Love Island' contestant faces new aggravated assault charges
KSL - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake man who gained notoriety on the reality TV show "Love Island" is facing felony domestic violence charges for the second time in a little over a month. Cashel Blew Barnett, 34, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court...
Utah Senator Mike Lee revises plan to sell off public lands in Idaho and 10 other states
ABC 6 - Idaho
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June 25, 2025
BOISE, Idaho — Utah Senator Mike Lee has backtracked on his controversial plan to sell millions of acres of federal land across 11 western states, including Idaho, after the Senate parliamentarian ruled his original proposal violates Senate rules....
Voices: Salt Lake City is working to make its streets safer and more livable. The state shouldn’t stand in its way.
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Traffic-calming obstacles along 1000 East in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Unless you are bedridden in Salt Lake City, you have certainly noticed the large number of streets closed for...
Research Project Studies High Doses of an Opioid Use Disorder Medication Among Veterans
Consultant Live
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June 25, 2025
A team of researchers at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) is helping determine risks and benefits for higher-than-previously recommended doses of a medication to treat opioid use disorder. The upper daily limit of the medication, buprenorphine, was...
Utah governor takes over Western Governors’ Association chair
E&E News
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June 25, 2025
Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox became chair Tuesday of the bipartisan Western Governors’ Association. Cox, who succeeds New Mexico’s Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, will focus the group’s efforts on meeting energy demand across the West...
Parkite couple competing in Saturday’s Red Bull Soapbox Race in Salt Lake City
Park Record - Utah
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June 13, 2025
Parkite couple Joshua and Jennifer Riff have always wanted to compete in a soapbox race. Saturday afternoon at the Utah State Capitol Grounds, they’ll get their chance, thanks to Red Bull. The couple and their team, Beehave Yourself, were chosen...
"If you put the two of us in a sumo ring I'd crush him": When former Utah HC Rick Majerus served up humor in response to Rick Pitino's Utes remarks
Sportskeeda
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June 29, 2025
The late former Utah coach Rick Majerus and former Kentucky coach Rick Pitino was and is one among the top college basketball coaches. Majerus, known for his strategic mind and ability to develop players, had stops at Marquette, Ball State, Utah...
Utah and its flagship university are diving headfirst into artificial intelligence, come what may.
Salt Lake City Weekly
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Patrick Abbott loves cinema and would very much like to be a filmmaker. As a University of Utah student, he initially studied screenwriting before turning to editing, with the pioneering editor and sound designer Walter Murch (The Godfather,...
2 wrong-way drivers cause chaos on I-15 in Salt Lake City
KSL TV 5 - Utah
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June 12, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY — A frightening scene unfolded Sunday night on Interstate 15 just north of downtown Salt Lake City, as two separate wrong-way drivers entered the freeway within minutes of each other, causing one head-on crash and prompting serious...
Red Bull Soapbox Race rolls into Salt Lake City; local family gears up for wild ride
KUTV - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Salt Lake City is known for being part engineering, part performance, and all-out wild. The Red Bull Soapbox Race captures the energy and is rolling into the city on Saturday — and one Utah family has made the cut. The...
Utah’s school voucher program is dominated by homeschoolers. It’s made reimbursements a ‘nightmare.’
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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June 25, 2025
About 80% of Utah’s school voucher recipients are homeschoolers, a much higher share than in other states with similar programs, according to state officials. That’s made the more than $80 million “Utah Fits All” program especially complicated to...
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Lancaster Online - Pennsylvania
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July 7, 2025
Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic overcomes a poor start to beat Alex de Minaur and reach the quarterfinals LONDON (AP) — Novak Djokovic has overcame an uncharacteristically unsteady start to avoid what would have been his earliest exit at Wimbledon since...
Scientists Recreate Mass Extinction Story at Zion National Park
The Independent - Utah
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June 25, 2025
June 5, 2025 — Springdale, UT The Zion Human History Museum has unveiled a striking new temporary exhibit, offering visitors a chance to travel 200 million years into the past—to a time of volcanoes, climate upheaval, and one of Earth’s largest...
Utah bond deal set to fund initial phase of development on state land
The Bond Buyer - New York
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June 24, 2025
Net revenue from a bond-financed 5,000-person capacity event center will help pay off $247.75 million of unrated tax-exempt debt being sold for the initial phase of a mixed-use development on land owned by the state of Utah.Piper Sandler Bond...
TruGolf acquires AI and machine learning engineering firm mlSpatial
Salt Lake Business Journal - Utah
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Salt Lake City-based TruGolf Holdings Inc., a golf technology company known for its golf simulators, has signed an agreement to acquire mlSpatial, an AI and machine learning engineering firm also headquartered in Salt Lake City. TruGolf said its...
City Weekly journalism wins five awards at annual Utah SPJ banquet.
Salt Lake City Weekly
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UNIVERSITY—The Utah Headliners chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (Utah SPJ) honored five writers for their work in Salt Lake City Weekly during the organization's annual banquet on Thursday. Competing in Division A alongside the...
Here's how a BYU graduate's research is helping to optimize wildfire modeling
KSL - Utah
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PROVO — Wind has already played a big role in Utah's wildfire season, combining with heat and low relative humidity to send the flames of the Forsyth Fire toward Pine Valley in Washington County, where it destroyed 18 structures, including 13...
Utah’s Antimony Resource: A Strategic Investment Play in Critical Minerals
Investing News Network
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June 23, 2025
Utah may be best known for its copper and gold legacy, but hidden beneath its rugged terrain lies one of the most overlooked critical mineral opportunities in the US: antimony. With global supply heavily concentrated in China and export...
Teamwork is the dream work for this Salt Lake City puzzle maker
KUER - Utah
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June 10, 2025
Stephen Roberts never set out to make puzzles as a career. He studied computer science and went to film school. When his daughter was born, he left his full-time job and started to pick up side gigs. That eventually led to puzzle creation. “This...