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Descendants of Utah massacre victims see likely gravesites
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Nearly 160 years after the massacre of a wagon train in southern Utah, the pioneers’ descendants got their first glimpse of what is believed to be their gravesites. Descendants of the Mountain Meadows Massacre victims gathered Saturday about 35 miles southwest of Cedar City to look at piles of rocks. Those rocks could likely be where…
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Pence makes first visit to Utah as Trump’s VP candidate
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Mike Pence used his trip to Utah on Thursday to try to sell Donald Trump to Republican voters in the Beehive state suspicious that the GOP presidential candidate may not share their conservative views. Pence, who is popular with Utah’s Republican officials, told business leaders and politicians in Salt Lake City that it has been a privilege for him…
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Donald Trump rattles Republican consensus in Utah
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When it became apparent that Donald Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination, Andy Rasmussen’s path seemed clear: he resigned his GOP leadership position in northern Utah and left the party to become an unaffiliated voter. Now Rasmussen and thousands of Utah Republicans wary of Trump are left scrambling to settle on a candidate of choice come Election Day.…
