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# utah - Saturday 12 January, 2019
US teen crashes car while driving blindfolded as part of 'Bird Box' challenge
A Netflix film has led to a viral challenge in which people attempt complete tasks while blindfolded.
# utah - Wednesday 7 November, 2018
Mitt Romney, who Trump branded a 'stone cold loser', wins Senate seat
The former presidential nominee lost out to Barack Obama in 2012.
# utah - Sunday 27 May, 2018
Tesla car, in autopilot mode, speeds up before crashing into parked fire engine
Two people were injured, including the owner of the car who has been charged with traffic offences.
# utah - Wednesday 14 February, 2018
Elk dies after leaping at low flying helicopter
The two people on board weren’t seriously hurt.
# utah - Wednesday 1 November, 2017
Nurse arrested after refusing to draw blood from unconscious patient settles case for $500,000
Wubbels plans to use part of the money to fund legal help for others trying to get similar body-camera video.
# utah - Wednesday 11 October, 2017
Utah police officer fired after being caught on camera handcuffing and dragging nurse
A video went viral in August of Detective Jeff Payne handcuffing a nurse who refused to draw a patient’s blood.
# utah - Friday 1 September, 2017
'Please sir, you're hurting me': Video shows nurse being arrested for refusing to take blood sample
Police ordered Alex Wubbels to take a blood sample from an unconscious patient, but she said that was against hospital policy.
# utah - Saturday 15 April, 2017
'Great men sometimes do bad things': Shock as US judge sentences rapist bishop
Keith Vallejo was sentenced to ‘up to life’ in prison this week.
# utah - Thursday 23 February, 2017
Teenagers shoot 14-year-old girl in the head and leave her in a ditch for iPod and $55
The 16-year-old suspects do not have any serious criminal history.
# utah - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
Police in US warn people against accidentally eating cannabis-infused sweets
‘Which gummy bears are infused with marijuana?’
# utah - Friday 1 July, 2016
Trucker accused of keeping women as sex slaves faces 20 years in prison
Timothy Vafeades allegedly trapped a series of women on his truck the Twilight Express over the course of 30 years.
# utah - Saturday 11 June, 2016
"It broke me": Native American sues Mormon church over sex abuse claims
The man said he has spent most of his life trying to avoid facing the abuse, which happened in the 1970s.
# utah - Tuesday 31 May, 2016
"Had she not been diagnosed, I don't think I would have caught mine."
The sisters fighting cancer together.
# utah - Monday 16 May, 2016
Utah father and son arrested after five women lured into house and tied up in basement
It is believed both men had been using methamphetamine heavily.
# utah - Wednesday 20 April, 2016
US state declares porn a 'public health crisis'
Utah’s governor called pornography a plague damaging young minds as he signed the declaration.
# utah - Wednesday 6 April, 2016
Four men are accused of raping a child on Easter Sunday
The incident occurred in the small city of Vernal in northeastern Utah.
# utah - Wednesday 23 March, 2016
Teenager who survived Boston bombing injured in Brussels airport attack
Mason Well was standing within feet of a bomb that exploded at the airport.
# utah - Sunday 28 February, 2016
Angry crowds rally after police officer 'shoots teenager carrying broomstick'
Salt Lake City police said one officer, and possibly a second one, were involved in the shooting.
# utah - Friday 12 February, 2016
A judge who sentenced a man to 55 years in prison is pleading for his release
Weldon Angelos was convicted in Utah in 2004 for dealing small amounts of marijuana and possession of firearms.
# utah - Tuesday 5 January, 2016
Founder of 'white people' dating site says he's not racist as he dated a black woman once
Where White People Meet has been causing controversy in the US.
# utah - Wednesday 23 December, 2015
These hairdressers came together to give homeless people free haircuts for Christmas
The true Christmas spirit.
These hairdressers came together to give homeless people free haircuts for Christmas
The true Christmas spirit.
# utah - Monday 21 December, 2015
This town is putting out fake Christmas packages to 'confuse and frustrate' thieves
They contain rocks, old clothes and broken televisions.
# utah - Friday 20 November, 2015
'Upset' man charged with calling in bomb threat to hospital as he was missing the birth of his child
Michael Morlang was apparently enraged that the birth was proceeding in Utah while he was outside the state.
Mormonism is taking a lot of heat for its attitude towards gay rights
The church declared that the children of gay couples cannot be blessed or baptised until they turn 18.
# utah - Saturday 19 September, 2015
Fatal flood opens old wounds for an isolated, polygamous sect with a dark past
A divided religious community led by a convicted child abuser lost 12 women and children this week.
# utah - Thursday 14 May, 2015
Failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney is fighting Evander Holyfield
To be fair, he’s taken a few beatings before…
Toddler in Utah horrifically 'beaten to death over a dirty nappy'
“There are no words for what this baby went through and the pain he suffered.”
# utah - Wednesday 25 March, 2015
Utah has brought back the firing squad - so how does it work?
The firing squad will be used as a backup if lethal injection drugs aren’t available.
# utah - Wednesday 11 March, 2015
Utah politicians vote to bring back firing squads
However, it has yet to be signed into law.
# utah - Monday 2 February, 2015
Woman gives birth to 10lb baby in car as she drives herself to hospital
“I knew the baby was coming and it doesn’t help to panic. So, I just stayed calm and said, ‘Well, if I deliver it on my own then I deliver it on my own.”
# utah - Saturday 6 December, 2014
Photos: The world's biggest nativity scene happened this week
One thousand people, some wise men, a donkey and a camel…
# utah - Friday 3 October, 2014
In from the cold: international ideas for dealing with homelessness
Utah has a very simple idea – give homeless people homes.
# utah - Thursday 29 May, 2014
US high school alters yearbook photos so female students 'show less skin'
The school claims the girls “violated a dress code”.
# utah - Wednesday 7 May, 2014
Couple arrested for having sex on church lawn during wedding ceremony
They had to be pulled apart by police.
# utah - Monday 14 April, 2014
US woman accused of killing six of her own newborn babies appears in court
Police say their investigation revealed Megan Huntsman gave birth to the infants over a ten year period.
US woman admits to killing six of her newborn babies and hiding them in her garage
Police say they believe that Megan Huntsman killed the children between 1996 and 2006.
The 9 at 9: Monday
It’s the beginning of a new week – and here’s everything you need to know before 9am.
Seven infant bodies found in cardboard boxes at woman's home
The woman was arrested and sent to jail on murder charges.
# utah - Wednesday 19 February, 2014
Outraged mother buys clothes shop's entire ‘indecent’ t-shirt display
Well, it’s A way to get rid of them.
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Poll: Are you going to download the new Covid-19 contact tracing app?
THE HSE HAS unveiled their new Covid-19 tracing app, with it becoming available to download from app stores last night.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly called the new app “a powerful tool” that’ll be used to help health authorities track down close contacts of people with Covid-19.
According to registrations within the tracing app, over 200,000 people have already downloaded the app, with over 120,000 people checking in so far.
TheJournal.ie took a look to examine how the app works and broke down all the features it includes.
Today’s Poll: Are you going to download the new Covid-19 tracing app?
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View from a teacher: No, we have not been 'sitting at home on full pay' in lockdown
By Anonymous Teacher
Our family law courts are not fit for purpose and we owe it to children to address this now
By Karen Kiernan
Money Diaries: A retired lecturer in Galway documents life and spending in lockdown
By TheJournal.ie reader
This week, our reader has been cocooning throughout the Covid-19 shutdown.
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