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US actress Gwyneth enters the courtroom after lunch break, on March 23, 2023, in Park City, Utah where she is accused of injuring another skier, leaving him with a concussion and four broken ribs. – Terry Sanderson claims that the actor-turned-lifestyle influencer was cruising down the slopes so recklessly that they violently collided, leaving him on the ground as she and her entourage continued their descent down Deer Valley Resort, a skiers-only mountain known for its groomed runs, après-ski champagne yurts and posh clientele. (Photo by Jeff Swinger / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JEFF SWINGER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Gwyneth Paltrow testifies in Utah ski collision trial: ‘We came crashing down together’ and then ‘I was in shock’

By Sam Metz and The Associated Press

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow uses man’s track record of divorces, anger problems, estrangement to question his claim their ski collision ruined his life

By Sam Metz and The Associated Press

AActor Gwyneth Paltrow shields her face with a blue notebook as she exits a courtroom, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Park City, Utah, where she is accused in a lawsuit of crashing into a skier during a 2016 family ski vacation, leaving him with brain damage and four broken ribs. Terry Sanderson claims that the actor-turned-lifestyle influencer was cruising down the slopes so recklessly that they violently collided, leaving him on the ground as she and her entourage continued their descent down Deer Valley Resort, a skiers-only mountain known for its groomed runs, après-ski champagne yurts and posh clientele. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

Gwyneth Paltrow ski collision lawsuit set to hear from doctors about injuries as celeb’s attorney calls case ‘utter B.S.’

By Sam Metz and The Associated Press

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow ski-collision lawsuit gets nasty in court: ‘His memories of the case get better over the years. That’s all I’m gonna say.’

By Sam Metz and The Associated Press

FILE – Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at the 26th annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Celebration at the Four Seasons Hotel on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Los Angeles. Paltrow goes on trial starting Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in the Utah ski resort town of Park City where she is accused in a lawsuit of crashing into a skier during a 2016 family sky vacation. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Retired optometrist says ‘out of control’ Gwyneth Paltrow crashed into him at upscale Deer Valley ski resort. Now they’re going to trial

By Sam Metz and The Associated Press

FILE – Olof Wood walks across reef-like structures called microbialites, exposed by receding waters at the Great Salt Lake, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, near Salt Lake City. Amid rising panic about the future of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is putting newfound emphasis on environmental stewardship. A high-ranking church official spoke to scientists and politicians at the University of Utah on Friday, March 17, 2023, about the church’s recent move to donate 20,000 acre-feet of water to help maintain the elevation of the Great Salt Lake and commitment to re-landscaping its temples and meetinghouses known for their neatly manicured grass. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer,File)

The Mormon Church is dipping its toe into environmentalism as Utah grapples with drought

By Sam Metz and The Associated Press

Salt Lake Temple in Temple Square at sunset.

Mormon church fined by the SEC for using 13 shell companies to hide a $32 billion investment portfolio

By Sam Metz and The Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester

Forget the Chinese balloon—selling farmland to foreign nationals is the real worry, argue U.S. lawmakers

By Matthew Brown, Sam Metz, and others

Western drought

Global warming is ripping up the grassy street medians of the American West

By Sam Metz, Kathleen Ronayne, and others