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Toddler shreds $1,000 in cash that his parents saved for college football season tickets Ben and Jackee Belnap - of Holladay, Utah - told local media that they had to laugh at the mishap. They also cried a little.
On the eve of Christine Blasey Ford testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about a Supreme Court nominee allegedly assaulting her when they were in high school, Anita Hill warned an audience at the University of Utah's Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House not to discount the role power plays in our understanding of sexual harassment and abuse allegations. "Access to equal justice was what was at stake in 1991, and it's what at stake now," Hill said on Wednesday.
Alabama's special Senate election Tuesday night captured national attention, especially after allegations of sexual misconduct involving underage teens surfaced against Republican candidate Roy Moore.
The 70-year-old singer will be awarded the Harvard Foundation's Peter ... Officials say U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is recovering from five broken ribs after he was assaulted by a neighbor who tackled him from behind at the senator's Kentucky home. When 23-year-old Timothy Coggins was found dead and disfigured beside a Georgia highway in 1983, the young black man's family and neighbors whispered that his killing may be linked to racism.
Should he seek re-election next year, Sen. Orrin Hatch could potentially face a far-right challenger financed by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who's hunting for Trump devotees to unseat several Senate Republicans. "There's a mini-drama that we're looking at right now," said Tim Chambless, a political science professor at the University of Utah.
Protesters rally against an appearance by former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Although more than 4 in 10 millennials identify as independents, according to the Pew Research Center, history has shown that most young adults vote for the Democratic Party.
Steve Griffin / The Salt Lake Tribune Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah answers questions as he debates Charlene Albarran Democratic challenger for the 2nd Congressional District during the Utah Debate Commission's event at the KUED studios on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City Tuesday October 4, 2016. Utah Rep. Chris Stewart "absolutely" hopes his colleague and mentor Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, runs for re-election in 2018.
Mitt Romney said Friday he has no regrets about criticizing then candidate Donald Trump in a stinging speech in Utah last year but now sees the new president as having "obviously gotten off to a very strong start." Romney, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012, told the Deseret News that he wishes Trump well despite having labeled him a "fraud" and a "phony" in a University of Utah speech last March.
Four people died when a medical transport airplane crashed in a parking lot in Elko, Nev., sparking multiple explosions and a fire on Friday night. A heart patient being transported to the University of Utah and three crew members died when the Piper PA 31aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances.
Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin said Wednesday he won't wither under attacks by white supremacists backing Donald Trump as his late campaign surge pushes him closer to winning Utah. McMullin said at the University of Utah that the rise of Republican Donald Trump this campaign has illustrated a lingering problem in the United States with bigotry, racism and misogyny.
University of Utah student Jenica Jessen, 21, said she's already cast her first-ever presidential vote, choosing independent candidate Evan McMullin even though she is a registered Republican. "This is my first presidential election that I'm old enough to vote in," the senior majoring in linguistics and political science said Wednesday.
In a Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 photo, playwright Mary Dickson, whose 2007 play "Exposed" chronicled the effects the above ground nuclear tests had on the downwind population in Utah, speaks at launch event for "Downwinders of Utah Archive" at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The new University of Utah archive about the state's "downwinders" features oral histories, photographs and newspapers clippings documenting the impact of nuclear testing during the 1950s in Nevada.