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A police officer shot and killed a mountain lion in downtown Salt Lake City early Tuesday morning when the animal charged him, despite having been shot with a tranquilizer dart by a state wildlife officer.
Salt Lake City police Sgt. Brandon Shearer said the predator, believed a male 1-2 years old, was first spotted by a Gold Cross ambulance driver about 3 a.m.

A newspaper carrier saw a West Valley City home on fire and pounded on the door to alert its homeowner, allowing her to escape unharmed early Tuesday morning.
The unknown man then left to finish his deliveries before firefighters could talk with him, shortly after crews arrived to douse the 5:14 a.m. blaze at 4020 W. Dennis Drive (3015 South).
The fire appeared to have begun in the garage and spread into the attached residence.

Northern Utah will bake and the state’s southern redrocks and high desert regions will swelter on Wednesday.
That’s a great forecast, for a camel.

Washington • Utahns are split over whether they approve of Sen. Orrin Hatch’s performance in office, but a large majority are sure they don’t want him to run for office again, according to a new poll by The Salt Lake Tribune and the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics.
Nearly 8-in-10 registered voters polled said Hatch shouldn’t seek re-election, with 57 percent saying he should “definitely not” run.

A former Saratoga Springs police officer was booked into Utah County jail last week, after he allegedly had sexual contact with a minor.
Aaron David Rosen, 46, of South Jordan, was booked Thursday on suspicion of misdemeanor unlawful sexual activity with a minor. He has since posted bail, according to Utah County sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon.
A man called police after he saw a stranger run out of the house as he was coming home from work Thursday, Cannon said.

Settlement talks are off for two Utah soda shops fighting over trademark rights to “dirty sodas” spiked with flavor shots.
The Daily Herald newspaper reported Monday (http://bit.ly/2uP0fVn) that a judge has set a seven-day trial for November 2018 in the court battle between soda chains Sodalicious and Swig.
Swig filed a federal trademark lawsuit in 2015 claiming Sodalicious ripped off the increasingly profitable concept of calling sugary drinks with extra flavor shots “dirty.”
Sodalicious is pus...

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Backers of a proposed ballot initiative to raise more money for Utah public schools have reduced the amount of extra taxes they want voters to approve next year.
Our Schools Now organizers announced Monday that the initiative’s Teacher and Student Success Act has been amended to call for income and sales tax hikes of 0.45 percentage points, down from an earlier proposal of 0.5-point increases.
The change follows 14 regional meetings hosted by the initiative in July and a cost analysis by the Gov...

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Provo • For Joy Sidwell, the only way justice could ever be served for her husband’s death is if the man who killed him — her ex-husband — is never again a free man.
Referring to him as “the murderer,” Sidwell asked a 4th District judge on Monday to sentence Fred Richard Lee, 62, to a lengthy prison sentence to pay for all the things he took away from her family when he shot and killed 42-year-old Mike Sidwell on July 3, 2014.
It was a planned killing, Joy Sidwell said — though her ex-husband h...

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Salt Lake City hopes it can turn its downtown core into a hub for arts and culture events that will attract visitors from far and wide.
Seven years after a partnership between the city and Salt Lake County was first created, the groups announced on Monday they had chosen Downtown Salt Lake City Presents, an offshoot of the Downtown Alliance, to manage the effort.
Mayor Jackie Biskupski called the area — east of 600 West to 400 East and south of North Temple to 400 South — the cultural gem of the...

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