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Hours after Winston Blackmore was convicted of polygamy, some of his daughters changed their Facebook profile pictures.
The new pictures showed the women posing with their father. The accompanying posts let the Canadian government and detractors of Blackmore and polygamy know there is still support for both.
“Every blessing in this picture was possible because of plural marriage and the good Lord,” Dollie Blackmore Roundy wrote in a caption for her new Facebook profile picture. The photo incl...

Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation has created a committee to look into buying Colorado ranchland that’s home to cattle, bison and two mountains the tribe considers sacred.
The price tag for the property — roughly 26 square miles (67 square kilometers) on the Wolf Springs and Boyer ranches in south-central Colorado — is $23 million.
The two sacred mountains are Big Mountain Sheep/Obsidian Mountain, or Mount Hesperus, and Sisnaajini, commonly known as White Shell Mountain or Blanca Peak.
Nava...

Midvale, Utah • A 29-year-old motorcyclist has died after crashing in Midvale.
Unified police detective Ken Hansen says then man was traveling southbound through an intersection on Sunday when a car made a left turn in front of him, causing the motorcycle to slam into the vehicle.
Hansen says the motorcyclist was not wearing a helmet.

Provo Mayor John Curtis bagged a big endorsement from Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Tuesday in the race to replace Jason Chaffetz.
“John gets things done and is a proven conservative leader,” Herbert said. “I have no doubt that John will be a congressman who will make Utah proud.”
The Republican governor also promoted Curtis as a candidate who puts “people before politics” — something he feels is needed in Washington. It’s unusual for Herbert to endorse a candidate in a partisan race before the pri...

The National Park Foundation has received a $1 million grant for upgrades to the Middle Emerald Pools Trail, donors announced Tuesday.
The grant comes from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation and will also cover youth programs, according to a news release from the foundation.
The Middle Emeralds Pool Trail in the Grotto area near Angel’s Landing has been closed to the public since December 2010 because of severe rain and mudslide damage, the release stated.

The National Park Foundation has received a $1 million grant for upgrades to the Middle Emerald Pools Trail in Zion National Park, donors announced Tuesday.
The grant comes from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation and will also help pay for youth programs, according to a news release from the foundation.
The Middle Emeralds Pool Trail in the grotto area near Angel’s Landing has been closed to the public since December 2010 because of severe rain and mudslide damage, the release stat...

Two people died and a girl was seriously injured in a head-on collision near the eastern Utah town of Ioka.
The Utah Highway Patrol said 18-year-old Devin Kirk, of Heber City, was driving east on State Route 87 at 4:36 p.m. Sunday when his Chrysler drifted across the center line. It collided head-on with a Hyundai near mile marker 30.
Both Kirk and a woman in the second car, Shauna Allen, 46, of Wales, died in the crash. A 12-year-old girl, also in the Hyundai, was transported to an area hospita...

One man was dead, three people injured and another man in custody in the aftermath of what police called a case of aggravated assault Tuesday morning in west Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City police Detective Greg Wilking said investigation had just begun into case, which spread over multiple crime scenes on 500 South between a storage facility at 500 West and undefr a freeway overpass at 600 West, between 7 a.m.

The mother of an autistic boy has filed a federal lawsuit alleging excessive force against Duchesne County, its sheriff and a sheriff’s sergeant after the boy was handcuffed and bruised during his arrest by the sergeant earlier this year.
An internal review of the officer’s conducted by the Sheriff’s Office, however, found that the sergeant acted appropriately during the interaction, except for mistakenly switching off his body camera.
On April 14, the 13-year-old boy — wearing goggles, whic...

Most of Utah, with the exception of the northern Wasatch Front, was under a Flash Flood Watch through Tuesday night.
The thunderstorms and rain clouds hovering over the state were the result of monsoonal moisture trapped between a upper-atmospheric, southwesterly flow out of Northern California and another ridge of air from the southern High Plains.
From eastern Utah’s Duchesne and Uintah counties south to Arizona border, west through southern Utah to the Nevada state line, and then north to Uta...

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