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Provo police were investigating a Friday night shooting that sent a 22-year-old man to the hospital with serious injuries.
The man was shot once in the chest during the shooting that took place about 6:40 p.m. inside a house near 100 S. 600 West, Provo police Sgt. Brian Taylor said.
The man ran to a neighbor’s home for help, and was transported to Utah Valley Hospital. He was being monitored closely Friday night, but it appeared he was going to survive, Taylor said on Saturday.
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After a monthslong state investigation, an ex-sheriff in Daggett County and four deputies were charged in May with sadistically abusing inmates.
The law enforcement officers are accused of zapping inmates with stun guns, and if they could withstand the jolt for five seconds, the jailers would buy them soda.

Despite the ambiguity over whether state law allows local governments to enact citywide bans on aerial fireworks, it’s not a gray area for most residents.
A new Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows that 91 percent of Utahns would support their municipality banning fireworks during times of extreme fire danger.
“If it’s fire danger, it’s not worth the risk,” said Amy Loertscher, a Pleasant Grove resident who participated in the poll.

It takes a certain kind of person to don King Arthur attire and joust in public parks, show up in gray or blue uniforms for reimagined Civil War battles, or walk 1,000 miles in droopy sunbonnets and long skirts as a Mormon pioneer.
I am not drawn to such re-enactments — especially not the trekking kind.
Growing up in suburban New Jersey, I share Woody Allen’s view that nature is lovely, “I just don’t want to get any of it on me.”
So when my editor told me in 1996 that a band of Latter-day Saints...

Utahns Joseph and Shalisse Johnstun were young Mormon singles — he a history buff, she an English major — when they carpooled back to Omaha, Neb., for the 1997 wagon train re-enactment.
They pulled handcarts side by side until Shalisse realized how “stupid that was,” she recalls, so she hopped on the Utah Centennial Wagon, eventually driving the team for much of the way.
The two spent the next three months “geeking out together,” Joseph says, got married shortly afterward and today live in Madis...

Midway residents Tom and Linda Whitaker were among the first to jump at the chance to participate in the sesquicentennial re-enactment.
They commissioned Amish carpenters to build them a wagon and arranged for others to watch after their Utah farm while they took four of their six children (two were on Mormon missions) on this LDS history adventure.
The kids learned the value of work, the richness of cooperation and how to respond to emergencies.
Sometimes Dad tried to get them to ride in the f...

Steve Sorensen was just finishing his history degree at the University of Utah in 1997 and felt certain he would get a graduate fellowship that year. But he didn’t.
Suddenly, he had several months of free time, so he decided to take his family — wife Wendy and four kids (another was born after) — on a three-month sojourn with the re-enactment wagon train.
But Sorensen and others wanted their experience to be more “primitive,” without retiring nightly to RVs or writing on laptops.

House Speaker Greg Hughes has a favorite conversation starter at his new pop-up office.
He points out the window toward the south side of 200 South, where one or more people sit, stand or pace, and asks “Who are we looking at?”
“Is that a member of a drug cartel? Is that a middleman? Is that somebody with behavioral health problems and they need a treatment bed?

Handcart Days’ Grand Parade in Bountiful on Friday evening gave Utahns a preview of sorts of the mother of all Utah parades: Monday’s mammoth Days of ’47 procession in downtown Salt Lake City.
The Davis County event offered some 100 entries for thousands of spectators. Festivities continue Saturday.

DENVER • Colorado will contribute $1.7 million to help relocate the nation’s largest outdoor recreation trade show from Salt Lake City to Denver.
The Colorado Economic Development Commission this week approved the award, contingent on three outdoor retail conventions being held in Denver annually for five years.
Luis Benitez, of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office, tells The Denver Post that each show has the potential to generate $45 million in direct and indirect economic benefits....

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