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Romney Gears Up for Hard Fight
Romney Gears Up
for Hard Fight
Feb 6, 2008 5:01 AM CST

Romney Gears Up for Hard Fight

With mere scattered victories, he vows to battle to bitter end

(Newser) - Victorious only in his home state of Massachusetts, Utah, and five caucus states, Mitt Romney vowed last night to stay in the campaign—and is digging in for a long, hard battle, AP reports. Speaking in Boston, Romney pledged to fight all the way to the convention, casting his campaign...

Romney Skips Trail to Grieve Mormon Leader

Thousands mourn 'giant among men' at funeral in Utah

(Newser) - GOP hopeful Mitt Romney ducked Super Tuesday stumping today to attend Mormon Church President Gordon Hinckley's funeral in Utah, but a Mitt aide still parried concerns about the hopeful's beliefs, Reuters reports. "The governor is proud of his faith,” he said. "After the funeral is over, we'll...

Top Mormon Leader Hinckley Dead at 97

President-prophet brought church closer to American mainstream

(Newser) - Gordon B. Hinckley, at 97 the longest-lived president-prophet in the history of the Mormon church, died yesterday of complications of old age. Hinckley, whose energy and extensive world travels earned comparisons to Pope John Paul II, oversaw his church for 12 years during an era of unprecedented growth, the Los ...

Western Towns Rebuild Library Jeffs Destroyed

Books disappeared under reign of jailed Utah polygamist

(Newser) - Two tiny towns on the Utah-Arizona border are pushing to restock the shelves of their library, reports the Deseret Morning News, in a first step toward healing rifts caused by imprisoned polygamist Warren Jeffs. With Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., firmly in the grip of the Mormon splinter group's...

'Porn' Gym Vids Alarm Utahans
'Porn' Gym Vids Alarm Utahans
Jan 20, 2008 3:34 PM CST

'Porn' Gym Vids Alarm Utahans

Pickets threatened at Gold's over Ludacris' 'Money Maker,' others

(Newser) - Everyone's gotten an unwelcome eyeful at the gym, but protesters want Gold's Gym to make sure members aren't getting it from music videos on TVs at two Utah locations, the Deseret Morning News reports. Calling rap videos like Ludacris' "Money Maker" pornographic, student and community groups say they'll picket...

Women Don't 'Outgrow' Bisexuality
Women Don't 'Outgrow' Bisexuality
Jan 17, 2008 11:13 AM CST

Women Don't 'Outgrow' Bisexuality

Study finds females are 'more fluid with their sexuality'

(Newser) - A new study rejects the idea that women can be "bisexual until graduation," ABC News reports. Utah professor Lisa Diamond followed 79 women between 18 and 25 who identified as "lesbian, bisexual, or 'unlabeled'" for a decade. Throughout, she found that few changed their self-categorization. Diamond argues...

Off-Roaders, Greenies Spar Over Western Lands

ATV-riders also vie with quieter nature lovers

(Newser) - Outdoor enthusiasts are bickering with the feds and each other over the use of federally owned lands in Colorado, Utah, and Montana, the New York Times reports. Off-roading fans of motorcycles, pick-ups, and ATVs are butting heads with quieter explorers who hike or ride horseback and want to preserve the...

Taser Trooper Cleared
Taser Trooper Cleared
Dec 1, 2007 6:46 AM CST

Taser Trooper Cleared

No wrongdoing found in YouTube , death threats continue

(Newser) - A Utah Highway Patrolman who Tasered a motorist in the back has been cleared of wrongdoing, the Deseret Morning News reports. A public-safety panel found that cop Jon Gardner had been justified in zapping motorist Jon Massey as he was walking back to his car after a traffic stop. Gardner...

Osmond Family Patriarch Dies
Osmond Family Patriarch Dies
Nov 7, 2007 2:45 AM CST

Osmond Family Patriarch Dies

George Osmond, father of Donny & Marie, launched careers of musical clan

(Newser) - It was the end of an era for the singing Osmond family with the death yesterday of patriarch George Osmond, who launched the musical careers of his children during a family trip to Disneyland 45 years ago, the Los Angeles Times reports. Osmond died at his Utah home of apparent...

Judge Draws Ire for Shelving Capital Trial

Six other states can't fund them; issue may be bigger than injection

(Newser) - Judge Hilton Fuller has drawn ire for shelving a Georgia death penalty case, but other states are hitting the same snag: low funds for capital court costs, the New York Times reports. Georgia can’t afford the $1.2 million to defend Brian Nichols, charged with killing four in a...

West's Water Woes May Be Permanent
West's Water Woes May Be Permanent
Oct 21, 2007 3:22 PM CDT

West's Water Woes May Be Permanent

Diminishing snowcap, shrinking reservoirs could 'wipe out' states

(Newser) - Officials out West are worried about water, the New York Times reports, and not just for the short-term. In what the Times calls the "other water problem" caused by global warming, snowcaps that feed the the Colorado River—which quenches the thirst of 30 million people in seven states—...

New Dino Chewed Like A Champ
New Dino Chewed Like A Champ
Oct 3, 2007 2:11 PM CDT

New Dino Chewed Like A Champ

Duck-billed plant-eater boasted 800 teeth

(Newser) - A mysterious dinosaur skull found in the Utah desert in 2004 is a new species, scientists say, and was "the Arnold Schwarzenegger of duck-billed dinosaurs." Gryposaurus monumentensis had such powerful jaws it could have chomped straight through tree branches, the New Scientist reports of the dinosaur, thought to...

Jury Finds Polygamist Sect Leader Guilty

Jeffs convicted on 2 felony counts of rape as accomplice

(Newser) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was convicted today on two counts of rape as an accomplice for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin. The jury reached a verdict just hours after one member was replaced for undisclosed reasons, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Jeffs faces 5 years...

Senate Derails DC's Bid for a House Seat

GOP blocks bill to give capital city voting rights in Congress

(Newser) - Residents of the nation's capital will remain without a Congressional representative after a measure that would have given them a House seat stalled in the Senate. Supporters fell three votes short on the most promising effort in 30 years, the Washington Post reports, and the bill is unlikely to come...

Polygamist Boss Ordered Girl to 'Surrender' to Husband

Jeffs charged with rape as an accomplice

(Newser) - Polygamist Warren Jeffs was accused yesterday of ordering a 14-year-old girl to surrender to her older cousin in an arranged marriage. That amounts to rape as an accomplice, prosecutors charged in the first day of Jeffs' trial. Church members consider their leader “God on Earth" who could only be...

Rain Foils Mine Camera Drop
Rain Foils Mine Camera Drop
Aug 28, 2007 12:11 PM CDT

Rain Foils Mine Camera Drop

But device should work in normal conditions

(Newser) - An 8-inch robotic camera’s descent down a 1,415-foot borehole in the collapsed Crandall Canyon Mine was cut short yesterday by several hours of steady rain, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The weather blocked positioning of equipment needed to drop the camera, as well as preparations for a seventh...

Mine Operation Continues With 7th Hole and Camera

Camera could reach shaft bottom by this afternoon

(Newser) - Reversing an earlier decision, recovery efforts will continue at the Utah mine where six miners were trapped three weeks ago. A seventh hole will be drilled into the mine, and a camera will be dropped into a previously bored hole to search for signs of life. Family members requested that...

Star Light, Star Bright
Star Light,
Star Bright
Aug 26, 2007 7:07 AM CDT

Star Light, Star Bright

To have a real celestial experience, get away from urban hotspots

(Newser) - There's no better season than summer for sleeping outdoors under the stars. Get your fill of the Big Dipper at USA Today's ideal star-gazing spots:
  1. Assateague Island National Seashore, Md./Va.
  2. Canyonlands National Park, Moab, Utah
  3. Big Bend National Park, Texas

6th Hole Shows No Signs of Life
6th Hole Shows No Signs of Life
Aug 25, 2007 9:45 PM CDT

6th Hole Shows No Signs of Life

(Newser) - The last hole drilled into the collapsed Utah mine where six men are trapped yielded no hopeful sign today; the space it reached was too small to support the men, a lawyer for some of the families told the press. "The only thing they told us is there is...

College Athletes Scrape for Cash for Low-Profile Sports

Cleaning and car washes fill funding gaps

(Newser) - Football and basketball squads are big money makers for colleges, but less popular spectator sports have trouble just staying afloat. How much trouble? Penn State's fencing team clears trash at the football stadium after games to earn funds for the team,  reports the New York Times. Star athletes at...

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