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kslnewsradio.com | Michael Hill |Bridger Beal-Cvetko |Bryanna Willis
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Workers digging at Manhattan’s World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had been buried more than two centuries earlier. Now, over 600 pieces from the 50-foot (15-meter) vessel are being painstakingly put back together at the New York State Museum. After years on the water and centuries underground, the boat is becoming a museum exhibit. ‘Give me liberty or give me death’ turns 250.
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kslnewsradio.com | Joey Cappelletti |Mary Clare Jalonick |Bridger Beal-Cvetko |Bryanna Willis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Trump administration officials briefed lawmakers on Thursday about President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites as questions swirled about the effectiveness of the attack and what’s ahead for America’s military involvement in the Middle East. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen.
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kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — Most Americans don’t want to pay for news, and many feel they can get the same information from a free source. Eighty-three percent of Americans haven’t paid for news in the past year, according to Pew Research Center. Hitting a paywallIf you’re reading through a news article and then suddenly a paywall comes up asking for a subscription, donation, or a one-time fee, what do you do? If you’re clicking away from the site, you aren’t alone.
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kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
(AP) – The Houston Rockets are acquiring 15-time All-Star and four-time Olympic gold medalist Kevin Durant from the Phoenix Suns in a blockbuster deal struck Sunday, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press.
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kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — State auditors are asking schools and lawmakers to establish policies to help educators choose books for school and classroom libraries. A new audit found that teachers are unsure what materials they can purchase for classroom libraries. State auditors said policies would clarify this.
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kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s new state superintendent spoke to the Education Interim Committee Wednesday about her goals and plans for K-12 students. Superintendent Dr. Molly Hart took over the position of state superintendent of public instruction on June 5. Hart said her first priority will be to listen. “My goal is to get everybody together around the table in various places … where we get people together, moving in the same direction for student achievement,” she said.
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kslnewsradio.com | Shelby Lofton |Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Pacific Islander community is calling on state and local leaders to respond to their questions and concerns following Saturday’s shooting at the “No Kings” protest. Alyn Toalepai, president of the Utah Pacific Islander Chamber of Commerce, sent a letter to a number of leaders, including the Salt Lake City Council, state lawmakers and the mayor’s office.
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kslnewsradio.com | Emily Janeen Ashcraft |Bryanna Willis |Britt Johnson
ST. GEORGE — A Las Vegas man will spend a year in jail and four years on probation as part of a plea deal after being found in St. George trafficking a teenage girl from Massachusetts. Tevon Jarell Cullors-Tillman, 38, was sentenced last week to a term of one to 15 years in prison for benefitting from human trafficking for sexual exploitation, a second-degree felony, and a term of zero to five years for human trafficking for sexual exploitation, a third-degree felony.
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kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Transportation is warning drivers in two different counties to plan for delays as they start construction on Interstate 80 this summer. I-80 construction in Summit County Crews will be repaving I-80 in Summit County just west of Kimball Junction and continuing east of U.S. Route 40. UDOT spokesperson John Gleason said closures started on Monday.
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kslnewsradio.com | Bridger Beal-Cvetko |Alexandrea Bonilla |Mariah Maynes |Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Sen. Mike Lee is facing criticism after posting what appear to be jokes about the man who police believe shot and killed a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband on Saturday. In a widely shared post from his personal X account on Sunday, Lee, a Republican, shared two pictures of the suspect in the shootings, saying: “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” an apparent misspelling of the name of Minnesota’s Democratic Gov.
