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A paraglider who crashed last week in the Living Room Trail area east of the University of Utah campus has died.
Sawyer Gordon, 22, passed away on Sunday at University Hospital, four days after the accident, hospital spokeswoman Suzanne Winchester said Tuesday.
Four days earlier, on June 7, Gordon suffered extensive and massive trauma during the crash, according to Salt Lake City Fire Department spokeswoman Audra Sorensen.
The paraglider’s fall was witnessed by a group of hikers at about 8:15 p....

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As he prepares to leave the U.S. House at month’s end, Rep. Jason Chaffetz is no longer chairman of one of the more powerful and high-profile committees in Congress.
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Many drivers suffering ailments from severe epilepsy to senility, diabetes and heart disease should not be on the road under state rules.

Sandy • Police here on Tuesday released the calls witnesses made to 911 reporting a man opened fire on a family in a car last week.
“Oh, these people are shot all over the street,” one woman caller told a dispatcher moments after violence burst into the residential neighborhood on the afternoon of June 6.
Witnesses, some stoic, others audibly shaken by what happened, described the suspect — who turned out to be 32-year-old Jeremy Patterson — use his own truck to ram and stop a car, and start sho...

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State Sen. Jim Dabakis thinks his path to the Utah Transit Authority’s board will dead-end at Salt Lake City’s Council.
Dabakis said ahead of Tuesday’s vote that the seven-member council was likely to reject his nomination by Mayor Jackie Biskupski for two reasons.
One: that “there is this raging war between the council and the mayor and I’m caught in the middle,” Dabakis said.
And two: his impression that City Council members are fine with the status quo at UTA, even as the debt-ridden transit ...

Sandy • A Sandy woman fatally shot this month along with one of her sons after her ex-boyfriend rammed the car she was in on a suburban street had reported being relentlessly stalked by the man, according to police documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Memorez Rackley told police on June 3 at 2:30 a.m.

Mentally-ill inmates in Utah found incompetent to stand trial on criminal charges may soon get relief if a federal court approves an agreement that would reduce significantly the time they wait without treatment.
On Monday, the Disability Law Center entered into a settlement agreement with the Utah Department of Human Services to resolve a class action lawsuit filed in September 2015 alleging that mentally-ill inmates were waiting months in jail without treatment, and therefore were denied speed...

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Editor’s note: When refugees immigrate to Utah, they arrive with little in the way of worldly goods. They do, however, bring their language, customs and recipes. In Refugee Kitchens, an ongoing series, The Salt Lake Tribune invited immigrants to cook dishes from their homelands as a window to their lives, as well as how they prepare food in a new culture. Refugees from Iraq, Central African Republic, Sudan, Burma and Syria discussed their lives as they prepared the food they love from the homes ...

A teenager and his younger brother escaped a house fire that caused an estimated $200,000 worth of damage early in West Jordan on Tuesday morning.
A passerby saw the smoke and flames at the house near 8500 South on Redwood Road at 5:20 a.m., according to West Jordan fire Captain Don Chase.
The bystander reported the fire, then banged on the front door to alert any occupants, Chase said. The house doesn’t have smoke detectors, Chase said, and the knocking woke up the two siblings inside.
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Gary Lauer says Salt Lake City has often been more of a fly-over city than a cultural destination. That’s a reputation he hopes his new lecture series can change.
Lauer, the president and co-founder of the Wasatch Speaker Series, has arranged a lineup of seven prominent lecturers at Abravanel Hall, including former Vice President Joe Biden and scientist-turned-humanitarian activist Jane Goodall.
“In the past, these speakers have flown over Salt Lake City for the most part on their way to the We...