Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:43 PM EST
Gary McCloskey may have destroyed more chemical weapons than any man alive, but he barely reacted when the final weapons from the world's largest stockpile of warfare agents came out of an incinerator.
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Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:47 AM EST
When winter comes to Utah and atmospheric conditions trap a soup of pollutants close to the ground, doctors say it turns every resident in the Salt Lake basin into the equivalent of a cigarette smoker.
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Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:06 AM EST
Clean air groups are making good on a promise to sue Kennecott Utah Copper over air pollution.
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Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:37 PM EST
Overstock.com, the online retailer known for selling distressed merchandise, was feeling a little distressed itself. With household merchandise stacking up in a warehouse, it opened the doors Thursday for an auction of goods assembled hodgepodge that had to be bought together on pallets.
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Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:07 PM EST
Several hundred people have showed up for an auction of returned merchandise at the Salt Lake City warehouse of Internet retailer Overstock.com.
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:46 PM EST
The lone holdout juror who prevented a Utah company from getting as much as $1.2 billion from one-time rival Microsoft Corp. for alleged antitrust violations says he's at peace with his decision.
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Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:42 PM EST
The live-in girlfriend of Utah Jazz center Al Jefferson was arrested in a domestic dispute after authorities say she bit the 6-foot-10, 265-pound player.
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Thu Dec 8, 2011 1:11 PM EST
A scientist accused of stealing trade secrets from a Utah chemistry company pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges, including newly filed counts of computer fraud.
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Tue Dec 6, 2011 3:34 PM EST
The death of a champion skydiver whose body was found under a cliff outside Moab has been ruled a probable suicide.
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Sun Dec 4, 2011 11:31 AM EST
A recovery program aimed at restoring the California condor to much of its historic range across the Southwest has been hampered by dozens of deaths linked to lead from the remnants of hunters' bullets, wildlife officials say.
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Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:25 PM EST
A scientist has been charged with stealing secret recipes from a Utah chemistry company and turning them over to his brother-in-law in India, in what federal authorities say is a crime rarely reported by U.S. companies fearing they will be devalued.
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Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:18 AM EST
Microsoft's Bill Gates insisted that changes to Windows 95 that undermined a rival word processor were meant to protect the Windows operating system from crashing and not to hurt a competitor.
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Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:26 PM EST
A world record-holding professional skier who once famously jumped off a 255-foot cliff died in a weekend avalanche in Utah while on a steep slope at a closed resort.
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Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:55 PM EST
Like his counterparts across the country, Mayor Mike Winder unabashedly promotes his community. But the style is unorthodox: He uses an alias and freelances upbeat articles about West Valley City, Utah.
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Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:31 PM EST
The nation's largest chemical weapons depot has destroyed its final stockpile of nerve agent — a 4,100-pound supply seized by U.S. troops from Nazi Germany.
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Wed Dec 1, 2010 2:47 PM EST
A day after the slaying of Utah Jazz executive Greg Miller's mother-in-law, detectives were collecting evidence Wednesday at the South Salt Lake book shop where she was found stabbed to death.
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Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:26 PM EST
When David Johndrow was looking to buy a hotel suite for use as a winter home in Park City, he had his pick of new luxury lodging: Montage Deer Valley, the St. Regis Deer Valley or the Waldorf Astoria Park City.
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Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:26 PM EST
An Oklahoma company said Monday it will appeal a $4.3 million jury award to a Utah man whose 2-year-old daughter died in a fire ignited when he poured gasoline from a plastic container into a wood stove in his mobile home.
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Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:51 PM EST
An Oklahoma company says it will appeal a $4.3 million jury award to a man whose 2-year-old daughter died from burn injuries following a gas can explosion and fire in his camping trailer in 2005.
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Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:03 PM EST
A Utah company seeking government approval to boost production of fertilizer from Great Salt Lake said Thursday it can cut by more than half the amount of lake water it originally planned to take for the expansion.
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Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:48 PM EDT
In the months after a Utah mine collapsed, entombing six miners and three would-be rescuers, the coal mine filled with groundwater that continues to pour out.
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Thu Oct 7, 2010 2:33 PM EDT
Firearms and explosives training at a Utah military base have ignited dozens of wildfires in the past three decades, including one that swept into neighborhoods and drove residents from more than 1,600 homes, according to a review of documents requested by The Associated Press.
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Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:25 PM EDT
The company that makes rocket boosters for the soon-to-be-retired space shuttle said it laid off hundreds of employees Thursday because of uncertainty over the future of the U.S. space program.
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Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:22 PM EDT
Investigators say the driver of a tour bus that careened off a Utah highway had been smoking marijuana heavily for days before the deadly accident but wasn't legally impaired while driving.
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Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:46 PM EDT
A top Utah regulator approved plans Monday for the first commercial U.S. oil sands project.
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