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Have you ever wondered if the cute light rail systems some large cities are installing actually get people out of their cars and have a positive environmental impact? For the first time, researchers have shown that installing light rail on an existing traffic corridor not only gets people out of their cars, but reduces congestion and air pollution.

Building on the success of Utah schools' dual language immersion program , two sons of the state senator who wrote it into law are working to launch a foundation to spread it to other areas of the country.

Barbara Gelegotis, a registered nurse with the University of Utah, measures Temeni Barrea at the 22nd annual Community Assistance Resource Event, or CARE Fair, which offers free medical and social services, presented by the Junior League of Salt Lake City, at Horizon Training and Instruction in Salt Lake City on Friday, July 11, 2014.

Diane Warsoff had phone conversation with her 20- year old daughter, Sarai, Friday.

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On July 2, Max Goddard, 15, was involved in an explosion in his garage that left him with third-degree burns on 30 percent of his body.

Don was born on April 22, 1920, in Ogden, Utah. He graduated from Ogden High School in 1938 and Weber Junior College in Ogden with an associate's degree in pre-engineering in 1940.

If the physics, chemistry and engineering professors at the University of Utah still used the same lectures and texts, still taught the same theories and facts, as they did in 1904, they might find it hard to keep their jobs.

Current discourse about student loan debt and the cost of a college education fail in my opinion to really help the student and their family decide how to best finance sending the student to a good college.

The Lori Kay Soares Hacking Memorial Scholarship Fund helps women in their junior year of the University of Utah's business school.

The park says extreme thermal heat is causing hot oil to bubble to the surface of Firehole Lake Drive, a scenic 3.3-mile loop that runs past Great Fountain Geyser, White Dome Geyser and Firehole Lake.

Roy Scott and Jake Steenblik compete in an arm wrestling competition during a carnival at the LDS Institute of religion at the University of Utah in 2008.

Pictured: Nonagenarien Jud Ashmore is still going strong. "I don't like the term 'retired'," said 90-year-old Jud Ashmore as he climbed on and off ladders and plucked photos and awards from high reaches of his memorabilia-filled workshop - just around the corner from a huge pile of wood he cut earlier.

Utah's award-winning, alternative newspaper, Salt Lake City Weekly is proud to announce the recent promotion of Rachel Piper as its new Editor.

Paul M. Gahlinger prescribed Suboxone, which treats opioid dependence, to two pregnant women and a man during 2012 and 2013 without properly evaluating them, according to the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing .

"I am a proud graduate of Alta High, and I'm grateful to the board of education and the administration for allowing me to return to my alma mater in such an important role for the community," said McGill, who is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership with an emphasis in social justice at the University of Utah.

A new online essay by the LDS Church says its Book of Abraham is inspired scripture but perhaps not a literal word-for-word translation of ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls by the faith's founder, Joseph Smith.

Launched less than two years ago, "DLA is working to scale this model nationally in all 50 states and we are currently working in some capacity in 44 states," Winder says.

After collectors found specimens of a prickly plant in 1974 and 1990, it was wrongly identified as three different species.

In this time-lapse photo, stars appear to rotate above Utah's Telescope Array, which astronomers used to narrow down the source of cosmic rays.