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Two men -- one shot, the other stabbed -- were in area hospitals after an early Friday morning altercation in west Salt Lake City.
Public safety dispatchers sent Salt Lake City police to the corner of 800 West and North Temple on a 12:18 a.m. 911 call.

My 84-year-old father is doing well after last week’s medical emergency. Transported by ambulance to Jordan Valley Medical Center, they cut off his badly infected toe and put him on a heavy antibiotic regimen.
Every morning I drive him from Sagewood at Daybreak, where he lives, to the hospital, where they shoot him full of more antibiotics. He gets a little grouchy during these visits.
The good news is that the IV therapy nurse doesn’t take any back talk.

After a week-long spell of thunderstorms and occasionally heavy rains, most of Utah anticipates a drying trend and hotter temperatures this weekend.
The National Weather Service reported that monsoonal moisture was weakening Friday over northern and central Utah, but will maintain its grip over the state’s southwest redrocks and high desert regions into early next week.
Isolated, mostly mountain thunderstorms ushered in Friday along the Wasatch Front and scattered rain showers were forecast as t...

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Don’t forget to register today for the 2018 Governor’s Cup Tennis Tournament/Heroin Cleanup in Pioneer Park!
All players will be tested for performance enhancing and performance diminishing drugs. A needle exchange program is available for both.
Being able to play tennis in Pioneer Park was one of the odd metrics Gov.

A political veteran who climbed from humble beginnings in Salt Lake City to an advisory position in the White House told hundreds gathered at a private luncheon Thursday that “if it happened to me, it can happen to you.”
“Only in America could a Mexican kid from Salt Lake City, Utah, who grew up in Utah foster care, end up being a witness to history working alongside the president of the United States,” Mickey Ibarra said.
“If it happened to me, it can happen to you.”
Ibarra elicited a standing...

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A 24-year veteran of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has been named to take over the agency, filling the empty shoes left by the departure of Greg Sheehan, now serving as acting head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
To succeed Sheehan, Department of Natural Resources director Mike Styler selected DWR deputy director Mike Fowlks, who had previously served as the agency’s legislative liaison and law enforcement chief. Fowlks has been interim director since Sheehan left last month.
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State leaders announce their new plan to fight homelessness, though many of the details on how to do it remain unknown to the public. Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch disagrees with President Donald Trump’s proposed ban on transgender people serving in the military. And Gov. Gary Herbert endorses Provo Mayor John Curtis before the 3rd Congressional District primary.
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In its first venture with vote-by-mail, Utah County mistakenly sent ballots for the Republican congressional primary — meant only for those registered with the GOP — to 68,000 unaffiliated voters.
The inadvertent “clerical error” was discovered late Wednesday afternoon, one day after the county dropped the ballots in the mail.
Local elections officials and the state Republican Party chairman rushed to assure that the accidentally mailed ballots won’t be counted and the Aug.

A group of concerned voters is suing Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox to prevent the release of certain information to a White House commission investigating election fraud.
The publication of the voter information would “undermine, and run afoul of, the State’s carefully crafted regulation of the use of voter data,” according to the lawsuit, filed Thursday in 3rd District Court by the League of United Latin American Citizens of Utah (LULAC) and the League of Women Voters of Utah (LWV).
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“I already told you guys I did it,” Ramon Luis Rivera told detectives last year, after he allegedly stabbed and stomped a fellow inmate to death at the Utah State Prison.
Two recorded interviews between Rivera and Unified Police detectives were played a three-day preliminary hearing in 3rd District Court, at the end of which, on Thursday, Rivera was ordered to stand trial.