Thompson's body was recovered early Tuesday morning in Utah after his family filed a missing person's report when he didn't return from a paragliding trip.
For its upcoming municipal elections in August, a Utah county will become the third U.S. jurisdiction to cast some absentee votes using a new mobile phone voting system that combines a version of blockchain software for preserving data with remote identity verification.
A moonrise and a national park from the space station, hikers view the Perseid meteor shower and more of the month’s best space pictures. See gallery here.
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Massive 1,000 foot water slide is erected on Salt Lake City's Main Street.
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For the first time, a federal appeals court has struck down a state's ban on same-sex marriage.
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"I feel like they’re trying to shame you of your body," said sophomore Shelby Baum, whose tattoo below her collarbone that says, “I am enough the way I am" was rendered invisible.
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Prosecutors have filed six first-degree murder charges against a Utah woman accused of killing six babies after giving birth to them, and keeping their bodies in boxes in her garage.
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For years, a Utah garage concealed a grisly secret: the bodies of seven babies, strangled or suffocated and placed in boxes.
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A Utah woman is accused of killing at least six infants over a decade after their tiny bodies were found stuffed inside individual cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home, police said.
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A Utah man launches a month-long campaign performing random acts of kindness for strangers.
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Utah and Colorado, two of the states with the lowest smoking rates in the country, are considering raising the age for tobacco use to 21.
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One of Utah's biggest school systems apologized Thursday and told angry parents it was investigating why dozens of elementary school children had their lunches seized and thrown away when they didn't have enough money in their accounts.
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The federal government will recognize marriages performed in Utah after a judge struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban, Attorney General Holder said Friday, noting that the newly-wedded gay couples “should not be asked to endure uncertainty regarding their status” as the legal challenges unfold.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has put a temporary stop to gay marriages in Utah while the state appeals.
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The tally of unexplained bald eagle deaths in Utah this month rose to 20 on Thursday as state wildlife officials looked for possible links to diseases suspected in a coinciding die-off of thousands of shore birds around the Great Salt Lake.
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Same-sex marriages can go on in Utah after a federal appeals court Tuesday denied the state’s request to stop them pending an appeal of a judge’s ruling legalizing them.
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Same-sex marriages in Utah can continue after a federal judge denied the state’s request Monday to put a temporary hold on the unions.
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