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The Salt Lake County Health Department warned people Friday not to enter the Jordan River after test results found an algae-related toxin in the water.
The results showed that the neuro toxin anatoxin-a was present at a “low level” of 0.1 micrograms per liter in the river, and the health department advised people and animals to avoid entering or drinking river water.

Salt Lake City • The co-founder of the Utah League of Native American Voters is running to challenge U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah next year.
Democrat Carol Surveyor announced in a statement Friday that she’s filed with the Federal Election Commission and is gearing up to run in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District.
Surveyor is a vice-chairwoman of the Peaceful Advocates for Native Dialogue and Organizing Support, a Utah Native American and environmental rights organization.
She says she’s a sing...

Utah’s amateur astronomers will soon have access to one of the largest public telescopes anywhere — for free.
The new instrument, roughly the size of a school bus, will be opened to public use Saturday with a dedication ceremony and open house at its new locale at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex (SPOC), about 30 miles west of Salt Lake City in Tooele County.
The Salt Lake Astronomical Society is seeking official verification with Guinness World Records, but society members believe their n...

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Navy veteran Ken Potts of Provo was one of three survivors from the USS Arizona who met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday.
Joining Potts were his fellow sailors Lauren Bruner and Donald Stratton. The event honored survivors from the famed ship that was destroyed in the Dec. 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor.
In his opening remarks, Trump said the men were three of the five living survivors from the ship. Some 1,177 men perished in the attack.
It was the first time the men ...

By the time Katie Peterson joined a Huntsman Cancer Institute clinical trial in 2014, she knew the route to the hospital from her Orem home by heart.
She’d made that one-hour drive for every appointment, every surgery and every round of chemotherapy day after day, week after week following her diagnosis with stage 3 breast cancer earlier that year.
The trip “was long, but I only ever felt comfortable going to the institute,” said Peterson, now 54. “The hospital near my home just wasn’t the same....

A former Salt Lake City firefighters union treasurer accused of illegally taking more than $100,000 from the union pleaded guilty Friday.
Joshua Diamond pleaded guilty as charged, according to court records, to second-degree felony counts of communications fraud, theft by deception and unlawful dealing with property by a fiduciary. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree felony forgery.
Diamond, who resigned from the union in 2016, is expected to be sentenced on Oct. 13.
The union b...

Police found a human body in the Jordan River in Taylorsville on Friday.
A person walking by the river spotted the body near 4500 South and Bridgeside Way, Unified police said, and reported it to law enforcement.
Additional details were not immediately available.
The Salt Lake Tribune will update this story as more information is released.
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Monticello • A Moab teen involved in an accident that caused the death of two of his peers in March will face charges in adult court, a judge ruled Friday.
Gage Colton Moore waived his right to a preliminary hearing in 7th District Juvenile Court and agreed to have his case moved to the adult system.
By waiving the hearing, Moore’s lawyers say their client decided to “accept responsibility for this horrible accident” and save affected families the emotional trauma of going through several differ...

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Sen. Mike Lee has taken a bunch of criticism from within the Republican Party after his opposition to a bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act essentially torpedoed the effort.
Among those grumbling is his Utah colleague, Sen. Orrin Hatch.
“I don’t see him looking for a path to yes. It seems like he’s against everything right now,” Hatch said in an interview with Politico.

Investigators have confirmed that the prison death of convicted murderer and doctor Martin MacNeill in April was a suicide, according to recently released investigative reports.
MacNeill, 61, died on April 9 at the Utah State Prison, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for killing his wife, Michele MacNeill, and sexually assaulting their adult daughter weeks after his wife’s death.
The former doctor was found deceased by two prison inmates near a greenhouse in the Olympus section of the pris...

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