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A Utah Department of Transportation employee was in serious condition Thursday after a semi-trailer smashed into his truck on the shoulder of Interstate 80 in Summit County, authorities said.
Morgan McCarthey, a UDOT station supervisor, was in serious condition but was expected to survive after the 11 a.m. collision at the Jeremy Ranch exit, department spokesman John Gleason said.

In anticipation of Utah’s growing population, Gov. Gary Herbert announces a 50-year water management plan for Utah. Salt Lake County Council Member Jenny Wilson announces her candidacy against seven-term Sen. Orrin Hatch. And the White House officially nominates Jon Huntsman Jr. as ambassador to Russia.

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Washington • The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the nomination of John Huber to continue as the U.S. attorney for Utah, a position where he has served since 2015.
Huber had resigned as the state’s top federal prosecutor in March — as requested of 46 U.S. attorneys nationwide by Attorney General Jeff Sessions — and has been serving as the acting attorney general in the interim.

Investigators are unsure what led a boy to allegedly shoot his sister through a door Sunday evening at their home in the small southern Utah town of Henrieville.
The 15-year-old girl was shot in the back and is “doing as OK as can be expected,” Garfield County Sheriff Danny Perkins said Wednesday.
She was taken by medical helicopter to a Salt Lake City hospital.

Thunderstorms bearing little rain but lots of lightning sparked several new fires in Tooele County’s Cedar Mountains, even as crews closed containment lines around other West Desert blazes on Thursday.
The Onaqui Mountain Complex fires had scorched nearly 38,000 acres of brush, grass and high chaparral east of Dugway since first reported on Sunday. Fire Information Officer Shayne Ward said the fires were 75 percent contained, with full containment expected no later than Saturday.
About 280 firef...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday the takedown of the dark web market AlphaBay — a site where they say a Park City boy bought the synthetic opioid known as “pink,” which killed two young 13-year-old boys last year.
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A Bountiful obstetrician-gynecologist was arrested and booked into Davis County jail on multiple charges related to child pornography.
Nathan Ward, 55, of Bountiful, was arrested Wednesday night by Davis County sheriff’s deputies and jailed on suspicion of seven second-degree felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
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The southern half and portions of central Utah were under a Flash Flood Watch through Thursday night as thunderstorms and occasionally heavy rain showers moved into the region.
The National Weather Service warned that when those water-laden clouds let loose, slot canyons, forest slopes recently denuded by wildfires, normally dry washes and mountain creeks, streams and rivers could suddenly gush with muddy, rocky runoff.
So, be prepared. “Predicting rain doesn’t count,” investment giant Warren Bu...

Spanish Fork police are investigating an auto-pedestrian fatality that took the life of a 3-year-old boy, but initial indications are that it was a tragic accident.
The boy reportedly was riding a scooter about 3 p.m. Wednesday, came around a corner and into the path of a car backing out of a driveway near 1000 East and 1400 South.
The child, whose identity was not immediately released, was in very critical condition when rushed to the hospital, where he later died.
The woman driving the car was...

Police arrested a 16-year-old boy for setting one of two brush fires that erupted within eight minutes of each other in Layton Wednesday afternoon.
Layton City Fire Marshal Doug Bitton said the first fire, blamed on a commercial lawn mower, was reported at 3:09 p.m. in a fenced area outside the eastern gate of Hill Air Force Base. The 2-acre blaze spread onto Layton city property before HAFB and Layton firefighters doused it.
The second fire erupted at 3:17 p.m.