Also: Residents of a small Texas border town have found themselves at the center of the country’s immigration debate.
Good morning! Here are today’s temperatures: Logan: 32 - 39° 🌨️ | 90% 💧 Salt Lake City: 37 - 44° 🌧️ | 80% 💧 St. George: 40 - 47° 🌧️ | 90% 💧 What does AI think Utah looks like? Meg Walter asked Midjourney and ChatGPT to create images of Utah, Utahns and a Latter-day Saint potluck. While some of the attempts are laughable, others are uncannily accurate. Check out how AI depicts Utah. Also on our mind: A revamped Utah bill aims to exempt NIL agreements from open records law, PCOS suicide risk calls for mental health monitoring and Brock Purdy’s viral lookalike is a Utah high school tennis star. |
| How Utah might tackle its domestic violence epidemic |
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| | More than a year has passed since Tausha Haight, her mother Gail Earl and her five children were shot and killed by her husband before he killed himself in Enoch, Iron County. “Domestic violence is absolutely just a destroyer of our communities,” Rep. Tyler Clancy, R-Provo, said in an interview. “And it’s not just one family that’s impacted by the scores of domestic violence. It’s an entire community.” In response to the devastation, Utah legislators have introduced bills aimed at holding perpetrators accountable, providing resources to victims and shifting the culture. But no single policy holds the solution and work remains, lawmakers and advocates agree. The Utah Legislature is considering bills that lawmakers and advocates consider important in the fight against domestic violence. |
Read more about how Utah policymakers aim to fight domestic violence. |
| Jutting out into the dividing line between the United States and Mexico, Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, has become the epicenter of the country’s immigration crisis, bearing the feet of countless thousands of migrants emerging from the Rio Grande during the surge in border crossings that characterized 2023. But that was before it was converted overnight into a high-security military outpost by the Texas National Guard in early January. “They’ve turned it into a fortress,” said one Border Patrol agent stationed in Eagle Pass, who chose to remain anonymous, in an interview with the Deseret News. “There are very few people crossing that area right now.” Read more about how the residents of a small Texas border town have found themselves at the center of the country’s immigration debate. More in Politics: 'None of these candidates’ projected to beat Nikki Haley in Nevada primary (Deseret News) Here’s the question most likely to decide this week’s Supreme Court case over Trump’s ballot eligibility (Deseret News) Revamped Utah bill aims to exempt NIL agreements from open records law (Deseret News) University of Utah President Taylor Randall: ‘U.’s diversity is its strength’ (Deseret News) | FROM OUR SPONSOR MYLIO PHOTOS Does this sound familiar? Thousands of photos are scattered across different devices and storage platforms with little hope of preserving the most precious memories for future generations. Mylio Photos solves this problem. Discover Mylio and get 10% off with the code "Deseret" at the checkout. | Health PCOS suicide risk calls for mental health monitoring, treatment (Deseret News) Mindfulness practices to add into your daily life (Deseret News) Faith Is the big box office gamble of ‘The Chosen’ paying off? (Deseret News) RootsTech 2024 theme ‘Remember’ reaches across nationalities, religions and generations (Church News) Family Fred Warner will become a father soon. What that milestone means to him (Deseret News) Kristin Andrus: The great sleepover debate (Deseret News) Entertainment Country star Toby Keith died Monday. Here’s how he’s being remembered (Deseret News) Usher embraced the code word ‘Utah’ to keep a super-sized secret from his kids (Deseret News) Salt Lake and Morgan Counties 16-year-old Om was killed in 2023. Now his best friend is advocating for change (Deseret News) Why these Utah divisions want $9.5M to complete a major Morgan County land purchase (KSL) Tooele and Washington Counties Utah place name among a dozen targeted for change due to use of racially charged language (KSL) ‘Beauty for ashes’: Southern Utah woman discovers artistic gift at 43 after suffering loss (St. George News) The West Utah says ‘I don’t think so’ to federal land exchange at Bears Ears (Deseret News) Luke Goodrich: Why the birthplace of the Western Apache religion shouldn’t be destroyed by a copper mine (Deseret News) The Nation Federal appeals court rules that Trump can be charged in 2020 election interference case (Deseret News) Jennifer Crumbley: Michigan shooter's mother found guilty of manslaughter (BBC) The World ‘Disaster of the century’: 1 year after the earthquake that demolished parts of Syria and Turkey (Deseret News) Gaza mediators search for 'final formula' for Israel, Hamas ceasefire (Reuters) Sports Will Taylor Swift make it to the Super Bowl? (Deseret News) Las Vegas mayor believes A’s should stay in Oakland (Deseret News) Brock Purdy’s viral lookalike is a Utah high school tennis star (Deseret News) Analysis: Blowout loss to Oklahoma shows No. 21 BYU how difficult and frustrating life can get on the road in the Big 12 (Deseret News) |
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