| April 21, 2009 | - A Salt Lake City teenager who went to steal a car and was startled to find a police officer sitting inside it, soiled himself. “Yeah,” he told the officer, “I crapped my pants.”
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Desert News
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| November 11, 2008 | - The Supreme Court was weighing a free-speech suit filed by adherents to the Summum church, in Pleasant Grove City, Utah. Members of the church claim that the city is discriminating against them by displaying a red granite plaque of the Ten Commandments in a public park but refusing to display a monument inscribed with their own faith's Seven Aphorisms, which were communicated via telepathy from divine beings to a man named Corky Ra. Ron Temu and Su Menu, two Summum worshippers, argued that the Commandments were compatible with the Aphorisms, as both were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. “If you look at them side by side,” said Su Menu of the two monuments while sitting in a metal pyramid and drinking an alcoholic sacramental nectar beside a mummified Doberman pinscher, “they really are saying similar things.”
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NYT
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| February 23, 2007 | - After widespread opposition from residents of Utah and Nevada, the Pentagon canceled its plan to test a large non-nuclear bomb as part of Operation Divine Strake.
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Washington Post
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| February 13, 2007 | - A gunman in Salt Lake City went on a shooting rampage in the Trolley Square mall, killing five before he was shot dead by police.
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NYT
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| July 8, 2006 | - It was reported that Senator
Orrin Hatch intervened to get a record producer out of a Dubai jail after he was sentenced to four years for possession of cocaine.
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New York Times
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| May 16, 2006 | -
Plague was found at a campground in Utah.
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Findlaw
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| December 31, 2005 | - In Utah a 13-year-old girl who became pregnant by her 12-year-old boyfriend was ruled a sex offender. The 12-year-old boy was also ruled a sex offender. “It's a paradox,” said the girl's attorney.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
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| September 5, 2005 | - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Taken together, the 90,000-square-mile disaster area would be the twelfth largest state. Emergencies were declared in Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
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U.S. Department of Defense
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| August 25, 2005 | - An accidental pepper-spray discharge at a Utah hotel sent 51 people to the hospital.
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USA Today
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| May 12, 2005 | - In Utah, a high school teacher brought his class to see the dissection of a live dog. “I thought,” he said, “that it would be just really a good experience.”
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Local6.com
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| July 3, 2004 | - Little boys in Utah were selling lemonade for $250 a glass to offset a potential $14 million judgment against the Boy Scouts for starting a wildfire.
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Associated Press
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| February 24, 2004 | -
Utah's legislature voted to do away with the firing squad.
| Source:
New York Times
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