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Utah native Marriner Eccles never had a formal education in economics, but the principles he espoused as Federal Reserve chairman from 1934 to 1948 helped shape how the country emerged from the Great Depression.
To do justice to his legacy, descendants who manage two Eccles family foundations are donating $10 million to the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business to establish the Marriner S.

On a frigid Minnesota morning more than a decade ago, Erin Clark got a call that would determine the trajectory of her medical career.
A family had agreed to let Clark, then a second-year resident at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, observe the birth of their child.

While maintaining control over Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott’s government email account, Ott’s aide earlier this year fretted over how to make it look like Ott — rather than she — was responding to a query from the mayor’s office, newly released documents show.
“I am not sure how to respond so this looks as if it is coming from Gary’s computer,” Ott’s secretary, Karmen Sanone, wrote Chief Deputy Recorder Julie Dole in a March 2017 email chain discussing how to respond to a communication fro...

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A 3-year-old boy died Wednesday after being hit by a car in Spanish Fork.
A neighbor of the child backed out of a driveway and hit the boy, who was riding a small bike near 1000 East on 1400 South just after 3 p.m., according to Spanish Fork police Lt. Matt Johnson.
The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he was declared dead, Johnson said.

A shake-up of school leadership and impassioned testimony by current and former students have failed to stave off closure of a West Valley charter school for pregnant and mothering teens.
Members of the Utah State Charter School Board voted 4-2 on Thursday to formally shut down Kairos Academy, effective immediately.

A 28-year-old woman died Monday when the ATV she was riding rolled in Delta, authorities said.
Delta resident Lara Anderson was driving the side-by-side ATV when it rolled and ejected her and another woman, according to the Millard County Sheriff’s Office.
Anderson was pronounced dead at the scene; the second woman, Caren Anderson, was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

While the astonishing flow of donations to Democrat Kathie Allen hasn’t stopped since she launched her congressional bid four months ago, it has decidedly slowed.
For a while, the first-time candidate was riding high. She’d had a bombshell campaign launch. She received national attention. And she raised about $400,000 in a matter of days.
Then, in early May, Rep. Jason Chaffetz announced his early resignation.
“If I’m honest,” Allen said, “I do realize that part of the motivation for the early f...

Washington • President Donald Trump offered a thinly veiled threat against Republicans opposing the Senate GOP health-care bill on Wednesday as he invited his party’s senators to the White House and demanded that they pass the legislation before jetting off for August recess.
“Any senator who votes against starting debate is really telling America that you’re fine with Obamacare,” Trump said.
While not referring to Sen.

Gov. Gary Herbert on Wednesday heralded the completion of the state’s new 50-year water management plan, a document four years in the making.
In a public appearance with his personally-appointed, 40-member team of water of advisors, the Republican governor accepted their completed blueprint, which maps strategies for water conservation as the state’s population grows and calls for the construction of big-ticket water projects at Lake Powell and the Bear River.
The document’s development has not ...

Health officials confirmed Wednesday that more mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been detected in several areas of Salt Lake County.
West Nile was found in mosquitoes sampled in Sandy and Salt Lake City last week, leading county officials to conclude that the potentially fatal virus has at least spread countywide.
“What we are trying to do is get ahead of more cases,” county epidemiologist Elene Risk said.