SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah has spent more than $30,000 to screen welfare applicants for drug use since a new law went into effect a year ago, but only 12 people have tested positive, state figures show ( Read more... )

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Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She's one herself, and learned Thursday how to safely use her 9 mm Ruger with a laser sight.

"If we have the ability to stop something, we should do it," said the elementary school teacher, who along with nearly 200 other teachers in Utah took six hours of free gun training offered by the ( Read more... )

Democrats say timing of purge doesn’t pass smell test.

More than 76,000 Utah voters have been dropped off the voter rolls this year in a move that Democrats in the state say smells fishy, but elections officials say it’s a routine housecleaning move."We’re tremendously concerned about it. It really is a very, very serious issue," said Utah ( Read more... )

Small town Mayor Mia Love (R-UT), a GOP congressional candidate who received a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, is considered a rising star by many within her party. Yet she offered a defense of the Republican Party’s plans to roll back reproductive freedom on Fox News Sunday today that takes a significant amount of ( Read more... )

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Dark side of a Bain success

A for-profit health company bought by Bain -- that Romney profits from -- has exploded in size and tales of neglect

BY ART LEVINE
It seemed a world away from the executive suites of Bain Capital when Dana Blum, a recent ( Read more... )

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Sen. Mike Lee Takes Issue With HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’


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