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Washington – Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson on Monday officially launched her bid for the U.S. Senate seat up next year, saying she wants to bring actual change to Washington.
Wilson, a Democrat, says she hopes to challenge Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican who has said he intends to seek an eighth term.
“Over the past few months, I have been overwhelmed by the encouragement to run by Utahns who are desperate for change in Washington,” Wilson said in a statement.

A 3-year-old boy who died after being left in a hot car parked in Las Vegas has been identified as being from Utah.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office identified the child as Chase Lee, of the central Utah town of Filmore.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the boy was left in the car Saturday for at least an hour while temperatures climbed into the triple digits.
The cause of death for the child will be released when autopsy findings are completed.
The boy was found in a four-door pass...

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Silver Summit • Evidence detailing alleged mistreatment of Daggett County jail inmates is to be presented in court in early September, as the criminal cases against the county’s former sheriff and two of his employees move forward.
Third District Judge Kent Holmberg set a Sept. 7 preliminary hearing for former Sheriff Jerry Jorgensen, Jail Commander Lt. Ben Lail and Deputy Joshua Cox — who all appeared in court together in a Summit County courtroom on Monday.

Syringes left by drug users are increasingly turning up in public places, and authorities offer this advice if you or your children should encounter any:
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DON’T PICK THEM UP
You could get exposed to drugs or disease, or unwittingly dispose of them improperly.
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CALL SOMEONE TO PICK THEM UP
Check with your local information hotline or health department, which can take care of it or direct you to people who can. Don’t call 911 unless directed, or unless there is imminent danger or an emergenc...

A high pressure ridge will rule Utah over the next couple days, keeping temperatures above average along the Wasatch Front.
The Salt Lake and Tooele valleys expected highs around 100 on Tuesday — up 2 degrees from Monday. Upper-90s are expected Wednesday.
Those readings were 5 to 8 degrees above normal for this time of year, but still expected to fall safely short of the record-setting 103-104 range.
Wednesday will see scattered thunderstorms and showers in the north, an encore of Monday evening...

A motor scooter driver in Utah has been killed after a collision with a car.
KTVX-TV reports the 42-year-old man was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital after the Saturday night collision.
Police are still investigating who was at fault.
Police say they’re unsure if the man on the scooter was wearing a helmet.
The driver and the passenger of the car are in good condition.
The car’s driver underwent alcohol testing on scene.

Watch out Salt Lake County, Utah County is gaining on you — and in the next 50 years will become almost as populous.
By 2065, Salt Lake County is projected to have 1.69 million people (from just under 1.1 million in 2015), with Utah County only slightly behind at 1.62 million (up from 586,000 now).
That’s according to population projections released Monday by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah in collaborations with the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget.
“The ...

Lowell, Mass. • They hide in weeds along hiking trails and in playground grass. They wash into rivers and float downstream to land on beaches. They pepper baseball dugouts, sidewalks and streets. Syringes left by drug users amid the heroin crisis are turning up everywhere.
In Portland, Maine, officials have collected more than 700 needles so far this year, putting them on track to handily exceed the nearly 900 gathered in all of 2016.

The Utah Transit Authority decided to compare itself with similar agencies nationwide and found that it is among the best for holding down costs, but it sits near the bottom for attracting riders.
Even worse, its ridership recently has been dropping, not improving.
“One of the things we’ve focused on is being efficient. So that shows in the numbers,” said Bob Biles, UTA vice president of finances, who prepared the comparison as part of an annual financial report to UTA’s board. “We do fall lowe...

I recently got really mad at Victoria’s Secret.
To be fair, I’ve always been critical of the lingerie giant for wielding its mighty power to manufacture an idea of beauty that isn’t attainable — even for its own models whose bodies are often digitally altered. But until recently, I still bought their bras (they just do my girls such justice).
I’m not going to anymore.
You know what did me in? They don’t make nursing bras. They specialize in apparel for the bosom (to the point that their employe...