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A sunset spectacle featuring two mitten-shaped rock formations played out this week at Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation along the Arizona and Utah border.

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Arizona's Towering Monument Valley buttes display a sunset spectacle this week. Monument Valley Tribal Park features mitten-shaped rock formations that are popular with tourists.

The jury ruled that Paltrow was not at fault because she was the "downhill" skier at the time of the accident.

The whisper quickly went viral with the news that Paltrow was off the hook, with many wondering what she told Sanderson.

A co-owner of a Utah gymnastics studio allegedly hid a camera in the gym's bathroom disguised as a cellphone charging dock and recorded over 70 people, including children.

NATO’s eastern flank has become an ideal proving ground for America’s most advanced fighter jet.

Jurors in a civil case against Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow found her not at fault in a ski collision on a Utah slope in 2016. The plaintiff, a retired optometrist, was ordered to pay Paltrow a symbolic $1 plus attorney fees. Vladimir Duthiers reports.

With the case set to go to the jury, attorneys say the outcome could hinge on who was the "downhill" skier.

A longtime Las Vegas attorney was indicted Wednesday on federal charges that he orchestrated a $460 million Ponzi scheme spanning multiple states, from Nevada and Utah to California and Arizona. The eight-count indictment accusing Matthew Wade Beasley of wire fraud and money laundering comes almost one year to the day after the personal injury attorney was shot and wounded by FBI agents at his $1.1 million home in Las Vegas, leading to a four-hour standoff that ended with his arrest. Beasley has been in federal custody since the standoff — during which prosecutors have said the lawyer, then 49, “repeatedly confessed” to his involvement in the investment scheme while on the phone with a negotiator.

Jeep has created several new concept SUVs to debut at the Easter Jeep Safari off-road festival in Utah that include an electrified 1978 Cherokee.

"Grey's Anatomy" alum Katherine Heigl discusses why she and husband Josh Kelley moved their family from Los Angeles to Utah more than a decade ago.

When Americans are looking over their finances they constantly take stock of where their money is going. It's time for our government to do the same and abandon business-as-usual.

A snowcat carrying two individuals was caught in an avalanche near Gold Ridge in Morgan County, Utah, on Tuesday and was swept into a group of trees before overturning.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys leaned heavily on experts to mount their defense about her 2016 ski collision with a 76-year-old retired optometrist who sued her years later.

A natural "powercloud" avalanche was caught on video approaching a group of skiers at Sundance Resort in Utah. The Timpanogos avalanche was one of three reported in the state.

“Here it comes, bro!” the person recording says incredulously in the video.

The civil trial between Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and retired Utah optometrist Terry Sanderson over a 2016 ski collision enters its sixth day.

Gwyneth Paltrow's attorneys are expected to call a series of experts and read depositions from her two teenage children on Tuesday in the first full day of the movie star 's trial that they have to call witnesses to make their case. Due to the trial's judge-imposed eight-day clock, Paltrow’s defense team is expected to face tough time management decisions much like Sanderson’s did throughout last week as they attempt to juggle family members, ski instructors and experts in skiing and brain science. Paltrow is in court fighting a lawsuit from Terry Sanderson, the 76-year-old retired optometrist suing her for more than $300,000 over a 2016 ski collision that he says left him with broken ribs and years of lasting concussion symptoms.

Paltrow's accuser Terry Sanderson will testify on Monday, as will three members of her family,

The Associated Press is reporting that China has been running a successful influence campaign targeting lawmakers in the state of Utah.

China's global influence campaign has been surprisingly robust and successful in Utah, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. The world's most powerful communist country and its U.S.-based advocates have spent years building relationships with Utah officials. Legislators in the deeply conservative and religious state have responded by delaying legislation Beijing didn’t like, nixing resolutions that conveyed displeasure with China's actions and expressing support in ways that enhanced the Chinese government’s image.

China’s global campaign to win friends and influence policy has blossomed in a surprising place: Utah, a deeply religious and conservative state with few obvious ties to the world’s most powerful communist country. An investigation by the Associated Press has found that China and its U.S.-based advocates spent years building relationships with the state’s officials and lawmakers. Its work in Utah is emblematic of a broader effort by Beijing to secure allies at the local level as its relations with the U.S. and its western allies have turned acrimonious.

A Utah parent filed a request to ban the Bible from a public school because of its sexual content in the wake of state legislation prohibiting pornographic books in schools.

State Rep. Ken Ivory, who sponsored the bill, said the request to remove the Bible from schools was a "mockery" of the law and made him "very sad."

Actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand during a trial over a skiing collision in 2016. Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson is seeking $300,000 in damages.

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Alexis Morris hit two foul shots with 10 seconds to play as No. 3 seed LSU reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2008, beating second-seeded Utah 66-63, Down 64-63, the Utes had a chance to back in front, but Jenna Johnson — a near 75% foul shooter — missed both attempts with 4.7 seconds to go.

Gwyneth Paltrow takes the stand in a trial over a 2016 ski crash at a resort in Utah.

Prosecutor Kristin VanOrman cross-examined Gwyneth Paltrow on March 24 in Park City, Utah, during her trial over a 2016 skiing incident.

Terry Sanderson claims Paltrow crashed into him at Deer Valley in 2016. Paltrow says it was the other way around.

Idaho lawmakers recently passed a bill that would authorize the use of firing squads if lethal injections drugs are unavailable. Other states have also authorized firing squads.

Idaho lawmakers recently passed a bill that would authorize the use of firing squads if lethal injections drugs are unavailable. Other states have also authorized firing squads.

The 51-year-old reality television star provided fans with an update after she experienced a terrifying car crash amid inclement weather conditions in Utah.

Two Utah laws, set to take effect in March 2024, will significantly restrict access to social media for children under the age of 18 as concerns surrounding kids' mental health surge.

The laws passed through Utah's Republican-supermajority Legislature reflect how politicians' perceptions of technology companies are changing — and that includes pro-business Republicans.

The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era.

Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, which currently includes Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Fresh interest comes as states scramble for alternatives to lethal injections after pharmaceutical companies barred the use of their drugs. WHEN WAS THE LAST EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD?

Utah becomes the first state to enact a law attempting to limit teens' access to social media sites.

The Davis School District in Utah received a parental complaint about the Holy Bible in December, putting the religious text under committee review for removal.

The case likely hinges on who the jury believes was the "downhill" skier, per legal experts.

The case likely hinges on who the jury believes was the "downhill" skier, per legal experts.

Gwyneth Paltrow is being sued in Park City, Utah over a 2016 ski collision. Paltrow along with her children, Moses and Apple, are expected to testify.

Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in court on Wednesday for a civil trial regarding a 2016 ski collision that allegedly left another severely injured. The actress has been sued for $300,000.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a new bill and executive order giving the state an official new flag, which features a beehive at its center and red, white and blue colors.

The trial has been seven years in the making, and on Tuesday, the Oscar-winning actress appeared in Park City for a jury trial that will determine who was at fault in the 2016 crash.

Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in court Tuesday for the ski accident lawsuit brought against her in 2019. Paltrow has been accused of colliding with another skiier and causing severe injury.

The Oscar-winning actress is being sued over allegations she injured a man in a skiing accident.

A big group of elk was relocated back to the mountains across an interstate in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Utah DPS video shows moments a hiker from Florida was rescued from a slot canyon near the Utah-Arizona border. Ed Smith told rescuers what happened to his friends.

Georgia cattleman Will Harris weighed in on a Utah teacher's assignment claiming that cattle production is harmful to the environment while encouraging kids to eat bugs.

Remarks from Bishop Christopher Waddell at the University of Utah on Friday underscored how the church — one of the biggest land and water rights holders in the western United States — is expanding its role in conservation and looking for solutions “that protect the future for all God's children.” “Our ability to be wise stewards of the earth is dependent on our understanding of the natural resources we have been blessed with,” the high-ranking church official said at a symposium on the future of the Great Salt Lake at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.

The Utah man shot several times by police officers on March 2 is potentially connected to the sovereign citizen movement, described by the FBI as believing they don't need to answer to government authority.

The decision by Utah’s Republican governor to sign into law a ban on abortion clinics is raising concerns about how already overburdened hospitals will accommodate becoming the only place for legal abortions in the state.

The Royals are returning to Utah and will join the National Women’s Soccer League next season.

A suburban Utah police department has released videos of five officers fatally shooting a man.

UCLA has climbed to No. 2 behind Houston in the latest Associated Press men's college basketball poll.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on Friday that he plans to sign a measure that would effectively ban abortion clinics from operating in the state.

New documents reveal that child protective services had opened an investigation of a Utah man just weeks before he killed seven of his family members and then himself.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart says proposed changes to clock operating rules shouldn't significantly impact games next season.

A push to mandate members of religious clergy report child sexual abuse when it's brought to their attention is facing pushback from churches throughout the United States.

College football administrators are looking at ways to reduce the number of plays in games in the name of player safety.

Gianna Kneepkens scored 28 points to lead No. 8 Utah to an 84-78 victory over No. 3 Stanford that gave the Utes a share of their first regular-season Pac-12 Conference title.

Utah would join South Carolina, Indiana and Stanford as No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament if it began now.

Utah lawmakers have elected not to vote on a proposal that would've allowed patients suffering from mental illness to use magic mushrooms under a therapist's supervision.

Four Associated Press journalists have been honored with the George Polk Award for War Reporting for their searing coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Ukrainian officials have credited with saving many lives.

The Environmental Protection Agency is reaffirming the basis for a rule that requires “significant reductions” in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants.

Salt Lake City’s hosting of this weekend’s NBA All-Star game for the first time in three decades is giving Utah another opportunity to try to change long-held notions that the state is odd or peculiar.

After four years in Washington, Republican Mitt Romney has established himself as a rare senator willing to publicly rebuke members of his own party.

If so inclined, and if fellow captain LeBron James was to cooperate with his own selections, Giannis Antetokounmpo could pick Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid and Lauri Markkanen to play on his team Sunday night.

Growing numbers of people are flocking to U.S. churches that center their practice around a psychedelic tea known as ayahuasca.

“A Thousand and One,” a drama about an impoverished single mother and her son in New York City, won the Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize in the U.S. dramatic competition, while “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” was awarded the top prize in the U.S. documentary category.

Several years of pandemic restrictions and curriculum battles have emboldened longtime advocates of funneling public funds to private and religious schools in statehouses throughout the country.

Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov had just broken out of Mariupol after covering the first 20 days of the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian city and was feeling guilty about leaving.

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Cameron Brink had 25 points, 14 rebounds and three blocked shots, Haley Jones added 25 points, 12 boards and a pair of blocks, and the fourth-ranked Stanford women bounced back from a loss at USC by beating eighth-ranked Utah 74-62.

The Sundance Film Festival met the moment by going virtual for the past two years because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The National Park Service has announced that in 2023, there will be five days where admission to sites will be free to the public.

Donovan Mitchell had 46 points in his return to Utah, but the Jazz rallied late behind Jordan Clarkson to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 116-114.

The Outdoor Retailer trade show is back in Salt Lake City this week after a four-year run in Denver.

A murder-suicide that left eight members of one family including five children dead in a small Utah town is the latest in what has become an all-too-common occurrence in troubled households across the United States.

A Utah man who fatally shot his five children, mother-in-law and wife and then killed himself had removed guns owned by himself and his wife days before the murder-suicide, leaving the family “vulnerable,” a relative said Friday.

A southern Utah community was struggling for answers on Thursday after police found eight people from one family, including five children, shot to death in the small town of Enoch.

A Utah man fatally shot his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife, then killed himself two weeks after the woman had filed for divorce, according to authorities and public records.

South Carolina finished 2022 how it started the year at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll.

Federal officials will more closely monitor the impacts of shrinking lakes throughout the U.S. West after President Joe Biden signed legislation that creates and funds monitoring efforts into the region's saline lakes.

UCLA has cleared a major hurdle toward joining the Big Ten Conference in 2024, getting approval for the move from the University of California Board of Regents.

Attorneys for the family of a Ugandan activist killed by a swinging metal gate at Arches National Park in Utah are seelomg $140 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government.

Adding milk to your soda is trending, and a household product is jumping on the bandwagon.

No. 12 Utah pounded a limping, bloodied Caleb Williams on Friday and roared past fourth-ranked Southern California 47-24 to not only win the Pac-12 Championship, but put USC’s College Football Playoff hopes in question.

Philadelphia and Oakland County, Michigan, are joining the small list of U.S. localities that are looking for signs of polio infections in sewage.

NASA is canceling a planned satellite that was going to intensely monitor greenhouse gases over the Americas because it got too costly and complicated.

The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, putting Congress one step closer to ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law.

A woman died and a man was rescued and treated for hypothermia after they were caught in extreme cold weather while hiking in Utah’s Zion National Park.

Jason David Frank, who played the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver on the 1990s children’s series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” has died.

Thirty water agencies that supply cities across the western United States are pledging to rip up lots of decorative grass to conserve water in the over-tapped Colorado River.

Lengthy vote counts in states such as Arizona or California can frustrate candidates and their supporters, but they don't indicate anything is wrong with the voting or the tallying of ballots.

Since Utah Republican Mike Lee won his race comfortably against independent Evan McMullin, a debate has emerged over the Democrats’ strategy to back an independent rather than run their own candidate.

Members of a Republican Congressional delegation took the stage at this year’s U.N. climate talks Friday to tout the benefits of fossil fuels.

The largest lottery prize in U.S. history has people across the country clamoring for a chance to win a mega jackpot.