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Ute Mountain Utes call for new look at 1923 violence in Bears Ears area, seek healing
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 29 - 6:17 a.m. | Save Story
For six weeks in 1923, numerous Utes were held in a stockade in Blanding as part of the so-called Last Indian War. Now, Ute leaders are calling for a new look at what happened.
'There's just nothing like it': The 1896 letter declaring Utah a state has come to the Beehive State
Hanna Seariac, Deseret News | Posted April 28 - 7:21 a.m. | Save Story
It's unclear how an 1896 document signed by President Grover Cleveland approving Utah as a state ended up at a Boston-based document auction this spring, but it's now finding its home in the Beehive State.
Utah veteran finds a piece of 'genuine American history'
Sky Mundell, KSL.com | Posted April 27 - 7:02 p.m. | Save Story
A Utah veteran using a metal detector as a way to battle his own PTSD found and returned a historical family treasure to its rightful owners.
Remembering one of Utah's most heinous murder cases, 50 years later
Lauren Steinbrecher, KSL-TV | Posted April 27 - 4:06 p.m. | Save Story
Monday marked 50 years since the Ogden Hi-Fi murders, and one of the people who first responded to the scene is looking back on what became a career-defining case.
The similarities behind the Jazz and Coyotes relocations nearly 45 years apart
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted April 23 - 9:15 p.m. | Save Story
It turns out there are plenty of similarities in Utah's response to the NHL as when the New Orleans Jazz moved to Utah 45 years ago this June.
Ogden man discovers items from the Spanish-American War: 'It's piqued our curiosity'
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 20 - 9:10 p.m. | Save Story
While renovating a home, Jeremy Peterson found hardtack with handwritten notes on it, indicating it came from a Black soldier who fought in the 1898 Spanish-American War.
12 students, teacher killed in Columbine school shooting remembered at 25th anniversary vigil
Colleen Slevin, Associated Press | Posted April 20 - 8:22 a.m. | Save Story
The 12 students and one teacher killed in the Columbine High School shooting were remembered in a vigil on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Cleveland's 1896 memo signed same day as Utah statehood fetches over $27K at auction
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted April 18 - 7:11 p.m. | Save Story
A "significant" inter-office memo sent the same day President Grover Cleveland signed a proclamation making Utah the 45th state was the big winner at Boston auction Wednesday.
Utah gets $1.5M donation as it unveils more plans for new golden spike monument
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted April 11 - 7:47 p.m. | Save Story
New details about one of Utah's newest state monuments were released after a ceremony celebrating a resolution that creates the park.
New film tells story of 79 Latter-day Saint missionaries who escaped Nazi Germany
Carole Mikita, KSL-TV | Posted April 11 - 8:22 a.m. | Save Story
Just days before the start of World War II, Americans, many of them Utahns, escaped from Nazi Germany. They were Latter-day Saint missionaries serving in that country. Now a filmmaker is telling their story.
Eagle Mountain housing project draws attention as homes take shape near petroglyphs
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 6 - 7:07 p.m. | Save Story
Rock art is scattered around the land near the Oquirrh Mountain Ranch neighborhood in Eagle Mountain and it's prompted concern, though developers intend to protect the petroglyphs.
The story behind the 'Flaming W' on the hillside above Weber State's Ogden campus
Marjorie Cortez, Deseret News | Posted April 4 - 3:03 p.m. | Save Story
As the story goes, some spirited Weber College fans carried 100 cans of kerosene up Mountain Ogden to light a flaming "W" on the hillside to celebrate homecoming in 1937.
Lou Conter, last survivor of USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor attack, dies at 102
Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN | Posted April 3 - 9:34 p.m. | Save Story
Lou Conter, the final survivor of the USS Arizona, the Navy battleship that was sunk — with a loss of 1,177 lives — during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at age 102.
More details of historic Salt Lake building demolition emerge; city seeks changes
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted April 2 - 8:57 p.m. | Save Story
Salt Lake City leaders are considering changes to the city's historic building laws after an incident over the weekend that is still being investigated.
'It is unacceptable': SLC halts demolition of historic former church over Easter weekend
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Updated April 1 - 6:33 p.m. | Save Story
Crews began demolishing a century-old former church meetinghouse in Salt Lake City this weekend, but city officials brought the operation to a halt Sunday because they never issued a permit.
'He loved the cinema houses': Ogden remembers man who helped save Peery's Egyptian Theater
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted March 25 - 9:02 p.m. | Save Story
Van Summerill, who died earlier this month, spearheaded efforts in the 1980s and 1990s to save the iconic theater — a key part of the city's arts offerings — from the wrecking ball.
Jail door, paintings, documents purchased with Kirtland Temple now on display in Salt Lake City
Emily Ashcraft, KSL.com | Posted March 25 - 1:06 p.m. | Save Story
A new Church History Museum exhibit showcases some of the artifacts recently purchased by the Church of Jesus Christ from the Community of Christ.
World War II Ghost Army veterans receive long-awaited Congressional Gold Medal
Gitanjali Poonia, Deseret News | Posted March 25 - 6:18 a.m. | Save Story
The Ghost Army is credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of American soldiers and shortening World War II against Nazi Germany by at least six months — without ever firing a shot.
