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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials settled a deadlocked race for a spot on a city council in suburban Salt Lake City by drawing names from a pilgrim hat and flipping a coin. It was a decision-by-chance that Utah and a number of other states allow to break ties in elections or appointments. Elections Director Mark Thomas said Wednesday that elections are settled that way every few years in Utah, mostly in small races.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Highway Patrol officials say it was an accident that a teenage driver's car struck a trooper who died Tuesday from his injuries. Utah Public Safety Commissioner Keith Squires said at a press conference Wednesday that the teen who hit 32-year-old Trooper Eric Ellsworth was "a new driver" and it was an accident.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Ski resorts in Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah have been forced to delay opening for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend or have few ski runs open because unseasonably warm weather limited their ability to make man-made snow. Many Western U.S. ski resorts in recent years started opening by Thanksgiving.
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — Federal agents arrested a Utah man they say was manufacturing thousands of opioid pain pills a day to sell illegally from his home. Agents arrested Aaron Michael Shamo at his home in Cottonwood Heights after finding 70,000 pills that were made to look like oxycodone but actually contained fentanyl.
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