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A study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network found that in less than a decade, the amount of 8-year-olds diagnosed with autism in Utah increased by almost 30%. This story and more in Thursday evening's news brief.

News Briefs

PM News Brief: Autism diagnoses, Kimball Junction development & state lawmaker resignation

KUER News

The latest Utah news from Thursday evening, Dec. 2, 2021.

Utah Highway Patrol Troopers in Salt Lake's Rio Grande neighborhood in 2018.

News

Utah Legislators Discuss Policing Challenges For Operation Rio Grande

Emily Means

The state of Utah, Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City launched Operation Rio Grande as an effort to address homelessness and crime in a downtown Salt…

A man in a black shirt and a white mask speaks to a group of people with signs including one that read “Police = Violence.”

Race, Religion & Social Justice

Salt Lake Protests Continue With Calls To Repeal State Law Limiting Police Review

Jon Reed

Demonstrations for police reform continued Saturday night in Salt Lake City, as more than 100 people gathered at the Capitol waving banners displaying…

Politics & Government

Firing Squad Bill Passes Utah House

Judy Fahys

House lawmakers narrowly passed a bill Friday to expand the state’s authority to use firing squads for executions.State lawmakers outlawed most…