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Black Lives Matter Protests Police Shooting of Patrick Harmon in Utah
Black Lives Matter has turned its latest protests to Utah, where 50-year-old Patrick Harmon was shot by a police officer as he attempted to run away from officers. Of course, the district attorney called the shooting justified, claiming that officers feared for their lives even though Harmon was running in the opposite direction, which sparked…
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Why a Utah Man Says He Got a Maaaad Disrespectful LeBron James Tat on His Leg
There’s hateration, and then there’s hating on the next level. Case in point: a Salt Lake City man got a “crying face LeBron James” tattoo on his leg because he says it will bring him a lifetime of joy. “LeBron is definitely a legend, but he’s the biggest crybaby legend of all time,” Kallen Gilleese…
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Rep. Jason Chaffetz Has a Foot Like the Terminator
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is chairman of the House oversight committee, and his foot looks like something out of a Terminator movie. I don’t trust shaky Chaffetz as far as I can throw him, so who even knows if the photo he posted to Facebook on Wednesday is even his foot, but if it is,…
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Faulty $2 Drug Test Lands Military Couple in Jail for 2 Months
For two-and-a-half months, Gale Griffin and her husband, Wendell Harvey, a military couple with top security clearance, sat in an Arkansas jail after bags of baking soda tested positive for cocaine because of a faulty drug-test kit used by police. “I felt cut off from reality; it felt very strange—someplace that doesn’t feel like America…
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Utah Man Charged With Yelling Racial Slur at Boy, Attacking Father With 'Stun Cane'
A Draper, Utah, man is accused of yelling a racial slur at a neighbor’s son before attacking the boy’s father with a “stun cane” during a confrontation over his choice of words, KSL.com reports. Mark Olic Porter is facing a third-degree felony aggravated assault charge for allegedly attacking the neighbor, who came to defend his…
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Report: Health Officials Stunned After Elderly Zika Patient Transfers Virus to Caregiver
Health officials are stumped after a Utah caregiver became infected with the Zika virus after caring for an elderly patient who has the disease. The Utah Department of Health said that the caregiver, a family member of the patient, tested positive for the virus, which, until now, was believed to be transmitted only through sex…
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Congresswoman Mia Love Ditches GOP Convention Next Month
In what surely is a check against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (though she will not admit it), Utah Rep. Mia Love said she will not be attending the party’s convention next month, and will instead visit Israel with a congressional delegation. Love, the very first African-American Republican woman ever elected to Congress, and who was…