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Birth On Plane: Southwest Flight From Salt Lake City To Denver Grounded After Woman Gives Birth

AP | Posted 12.04.2009 | Denver

Read More: Salt Lake City, Airplane Birth, Southwest Airlines, Woman Gives Birth on Plane, Dia, Denver International Airport, Birth on Plane, Denver News

DENVER — A woman gave birth to a baby boy on a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago that had to be diverted to Denver International Airport. ...

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Ken Salazar Blamed By Oil And Gas Companies For Scant Interest In New Drilling Projects

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Interior Department, Environmental Regulations, New Energy, Salt Lake City, Natural Gas, Ken Salazar, Oil, Utah, Natural Gas Regulations, Breaking News on Oil Drilling, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of Preside...

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Salt Lake OKs gay rights laws with Mormon backing

AP | JENNIFER DOBNER | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tansgender, Polygamy, Mormon Church, Housing, Civil Rights, Sexual Orientation, Employment, Transgendered, Lds Church, Gender, Utah, Gay Families, Religion, Gay Rights, Salt Lake City Council, Gender Identity, Same Sex Marriage, Salt Lake City, Marriage Laws, Lesbians, Sexual Preference, Anti-Discrimination Law, Gays, Anti-Discrimination, Lds, Family, Politics News

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unani...

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Dr. Brent James Could Be Health Care's Saving Grace

New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Debate, Brent James, Health Insurance, Idaho, Utah, Fee-for-Service Payment, Advanced Training Program, Health Care Reform, Salt Lake City, Doctors, Dr. Donald Berwick, Intermountain Healthcare, Dr. Mark McClellan, Living News

The health care debate of 2009 has had so many moving parts that it has sometimes seemed impossible to follow. The crisis behind the debate, though, i...

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Bird Strike Sends Delta Flight Back To Phoenix Airport

AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Bird Strikes, Faa, Phoenix Airport, Travel, Arizona, Pilots, Utah, Ntsb, Sky Harbor, Phoenix, Air Safety, Miracle on the Hudson, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Salt Lake City, Flock, Delta, Bird Strike, Airlines, Home News

PHOENIX — Authorities say a Delta Air Lines flight headed to Utah has safely returned to Phoenix after one or more birds hit the aircraft. Fede...

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Elizabeth Smart To Testify In Court Against Alleged Kidnapper

People Magazine | Cathy Free | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

Read More: JC Dugard, Brian David Mitchell, Elizabeth Smart, Crime, Kidnapper, Salt Lake City, Prophet, Elizabeth Smart Court Case, Utah, Kidnapping, Home News

Seven years since she was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom by knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart will be in the same room on Thursday as her alleged ...

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Top Ten Undiscovered Cities For Local Food (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Top Ten List, Locavore Restaurants, Undiscovered Local Food, Slidepoll, Ithaca, Green, Best-Green-Restaurants, Green Beer Month, Ashevile, Local Food Movement, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, Green Beer, Green Eats, Local Food Cities You Haven't Heard About, Madison, Top Ten, San Antonio, Green Living, Bellingham, Green Food, Undiscovered Local Food Cities, Local Food, Restaurants, Cleveland, Food, Slideshow, Burlington, Local Food Restaurants, Beer Month, Healdsburg, Green News

We here at HuffPost Green were so inspired by our readers' response to our 10 Best US Cities for Local Food piece that we decided to host another roun...

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Gay Couple Detained For Kissing In Public

Associated Press | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mormon Church, Gay Rights, Salt Lake City, Mormons, Mormonism, Gay-Rights-Mormon-Church, Gay Marriage, Utah, Politics News

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- About 100 people gathered near the Mormon church's downtown temple to stage a "kiss-in" protesting the treatment of two gay men...

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Gay Couple Detained After Kissing On Plaza Owned By Mormon Church

AP | ELIZABETH WHITE | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Utah Gay Kiss, Salt Lake City, Gays Detained, Matt Aune, Derek Jones, Utah, Politics News

SALT LAKE CITY — A gay couple say they were detained by security guards on a plaza owned by the Mormon church and later cited by police, claiming it...

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Sister Dottie vs. The Mormon Church

Mike Bonifer | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Pygmalion Theater Company, Mormon, Donnie P. Dixon, Sister Dottie Dixon, Boy Scouts, Gamechanger, Salt Lake City, Gay Rights, Passion, Dartsy Foxmoreland, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

Sister Dottie's show, a comedy with what she describes as "moments of poignancy," addresses the controversy of her stubborn refusal to accept the Mormon church's anti-gay positions.

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Former Utah Rep: I Was Married to a Con Man

Al Eisele | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Salt Lake City, Eric Holder Attorney General, Enid Greene Waldholtz, Eric Holder, Utah, Politics News
Al Eisele

Greene was eventually cleared of criminal wrongdoing, but under pressure from Sen. Orrin Hatch and other top Utah Republicans, declined to seek reelection in 1996.

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Brigham Young Would Be Proud

Carl Pope | Posted 09.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Automakers, Bush Administration, Legacy Parkway, Big Oil, Salt Lake City, Nhtsa, Cars, Utah, Green News
Carl Pope

Unless we lower demand, the price for oil is going up over the next seven years, not down. There is, after all, considerable evidence that when the oil industry speaks, the Bush administration listens.

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Ten Sizzling Real Estate Markets

Forbes | Deborah Orr | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Housing Downturn, National Association of Realtors, Salt Lake City, Home Prices, Business News

Home prices nationwide posted their biggest drop in 16 years last month, according to the National Association of Realtors. But someone forgot to tel...

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McCain's Mom Goes After Romney

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mormons, Mormon, John McCain, Roberta McCain, John McCain's Mom, Salt Lake City, Romney, Mitt Romney, 2008 Elections, Republicans, 2008 Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

John McCain's 95-year-old mother, in a swipe at her son's rival Mitt Romney, said Friday that Mormons were to blame for the scandal that rocked the 20...

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