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  • Spencer Cox, Governor of UtahTech

    Utah social media law aimed at protecting children is blocked by federal judge

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • A man using a computer in front of the ChatGPT logoTech

    Reporter caught using artificial intelligence to create fake stories and quotes

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • Cat in a boxTech

    ‘We mailed our cat’: Utah family reunited with dehydrated, healthy feline who took cross-country trip in Amazon return

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • A BNSF freight trainFinance

    Warren Buffett-owned BNSF Railway contributed to 2 deaths in Montana town where asbestos sickened thousands, jury finds

    By Amy Beth Hanson, Matthew Brown, and others
  • FILE – Environmental cleanup specialists work at one of the last remaining residential asbestos cleanup sites in Libby, Montana, in mid-September. BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors Friday, April 19, 2024, that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of the asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest sites in the federal Superfund pollution program. (Kurt Wilson/The Missoulian via AP, File)Environment

    Warren Buffett-owned railway says it didn’t know about asbestos it hauled that killed hundreds in Montana town

    By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson, and others
  • A BNSF coal train with coal from eastern MontanaFinance

    Montana asbestos victims want Warren Buffett’s railroad company held responsible for thousands exposed to toxic dust

    By Amy Beth Hanson, Matthew Brown, and others
  • Paul Resch is seen on Thursday, April 4, 2024, near Libby, Mont. The 61-year-old has asbestos-related disease and Paul Resch (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)Health

    Victims of asbestos pollution that killed hundreds take Warren Buffett’s railroad to court: ‘At some point, probably everybody got exposed to it’

    By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson, and others
  • The home was rented by former funeral home owner Miles HarfordFinance

    Financial hardship led ex-funeral home owner to stash cremated human remains in temporary urns and may have led to mixups of ashes, police say

    By Amy Beth Hanson, Colleen Slevin, and others
  • Maury PovichLifestyle

    Denver Zoo invites Maury Povich to reveal great-ape paternity results: ‘You are the father!’ he regales Orangutan

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • POLAND – 2023/11/30: In this photo illustration a YouTube logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    YouTube influencer who gave parenting advice pleads guilty to horrific child abuse

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • a Grizzly bear.Environment

    BSNF Railway has been slow-walking a permit to stop running over grizzly bears for nearly 20 years, environmental groups claim in lawsuit

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Adam Botkin, a football TikTok influencer, edits a video for a post at a Chipotle Mexican Grill while eating dinner, May 3, 2023, in Missoula, Mont. A federal judge ruled Thursday, Nov. 30, that Montana can’t enforce a first-in-the-nation law banning the video sharing app TikTok in the state while a legal challenge to the law moves through the courts. (AP Photo/Tommy Martino, File)Politics

    Montana’s first-in-nation TikTok ban blocked by judge who calls it unconstitutional and fixated on Chinese influence

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • Northern Rockies snowfallEnvironment

    From temps in the 80s to 8 inches of snow: The northern Rockies brace for the first snowfall of the season

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • Rudy NoorlanderLifestyle

    Montana man who lost his jaw to a grizzly is coming home. He wants Cole Hauser from ‘Yellowstone’ to play him in a movie

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press
  • YouTubeTech

    YouTube influencer Ruby Franke faces trial on child abuse charges after emaciated 12-year-old son found with duct-taped ankles, wrists

    By Amy Beth Hanson and The Associated Press