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2 days ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Pat Reavy |Britt Johnson
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake police have arrested a woman who they say gave her 2-year-old son to a man in a car in a parking lot, then passed out and reported her son as being abducted 11 hours later when she couldn’t find him. Chantelle Erichsen Rees, 32, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of child abandonment and child endangerment. The incident began about 4:30 a.m. Monday when Rees went to an apartment complex near 700 South and 300 East along with her 2-year-old son.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Britt Johnson
SALT LAKE CITY — Federal funding for traumatic brain injury research could be cut if Congress follows through with the Trump administration’s budget request. Certified brain injury specialist Catherine Little said these proposed changes could have big impacts for Utah. “If the federal funding disappears, I’m not sure how the state of Utah will be able to absorb all of those costs,” she said. And there is a long waitlist of people who need brain injury resources, Little said.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Britt Johnson
SALT LAKE CITY — Seniors are graduating. It’s Mother’s Day. There are dance recitals, awards ceremonies and teacher gifts. And if your child wants to be on next year’s student council, sports team, or the school musical, there will be tryouts. “Breathe. Don’t forget to breathe,” said Mary-Elizabeth Hickman, Syracuse mother of 6.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Britt Johnson
SALT LAKE CITY — Scientists across Utah are searching for a meteor that fell over the Salt Lake valley Saturday night. A dash camera from a KSL TV viewer captured the fireball as it went behind the mountains in Ogden. “What we call that is a fireball,” said Jason Trump, the education programs supervisor at Clark Planetarium.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Pat Reavy |Britt Johnson
SOUTH JORDAN — A 29-year-old West Jordan man who police say believed he was being chased by the sun while hallucinating is facing a dozen charges for allegedly injuring a father and his daughter in a crash in March and then trying to carjack another vehicle to get away.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Britt Johnson
SALT LAKE CITY — When Jacob Branan moved into his home near 3300 South and 900 East in Millcreek, he made a surprising discovery. “We were just taking a walk outside, looking around the house. It was just in an old bag leaned up against our wall,” Branan said. Inside the bag, he found old photos, news articles and even locks of hair. Linking it back to Jason BatemanBranan started researching the names and realized this was actor Jason Bateman’s family. “Everything lines up.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Britt Johnson
Indigenous people across North America are calling this week for sustained responses to the violence in their communities, much of it against women and girls. In prayer walks, self-defense classes, marches and speeches at state capitols, they are pushing for better cooperation among law enforcement agencies to find missing people and solve homicides that are among about 4,300 open FBI cases this year.
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1 week ago | 
ksl.com | Britt Johnson
SALT LAKE CITY — Sometimes cities seem eager to dish out traffic tickets to pad the budget. However, the Utah Legislature passed a law stating that revenue from traffic fines may not exceed 25% of a local government's total general fund revenue for a fiscal year. The Utah State Auditor was recently tasked with tracking how much each of Utah's cities gains from citations.
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2 weeks ago | 
fastcompany.com | Britt Johnson
The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership opportunities, events and more. We need to change the conversation about how we diagnose autism-and what we believe causes it. Lately, there's been growing attention on environmental toxins and singular external triggers as explanations for autism.
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2 weeks ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Cole Bagley |Tanner Tripp |Bridger Beal-Cvetko |Britt Johnson
SALT LAKE CITY – Delta Center renovations are officially underway as Smith Entertainment Group announced a fully detailed list of plans on Wednesday morning, outlining their intentions to maximize seating for both Utah Hockey Club and Utah Jazz games. Centered around optimizing sightlines for future Utah Hockey Club games and increasing overall capacity, the Delta Center will undergo a multi-year transformation that will alter the geometry of the arena bowl.
