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Pulling back the curtains on wage-theft enforcement in MN; Trump's latest attack is on RFK, Jr; NM LGBTQ+ equality group endorses 2024 'Rock Star' candidates; Michigan's youth justice reforms: Expanded diversion, no fees.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says rebuilding Baltimore's Key Bridge will be challenging and expensive. An Alabama Democrat flips a state legislature seat and former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

UT: Teen Pregnancy Prevention

More than 95 percent of children now have health-care coverage because of expansions of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program under the Affordable Care Act. (Getty Images)
Utah Ranks in Top 10 Nationally for Child Well-Being

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah has made gains on nearly every key indicator of children's well-being, and the state ranks seventh nationally overall in …

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Planned Parenthood of Utah told a panel of judges at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Gov. Gary Herbert illegally cut the group's funding.
Planned Parenthood of Utah Appeals Cutoff of State Funds

SALT LAKE CITY - Planned Parenthood of Utah is asking a federal appeals court to force Gov. Gary Herbert to stop cutting off funds to the …

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Planned Parenthood rally in August at the Utah statehouse protesting Gov. Gary Herbert's decision to cut off funding.  (Planned Parenthood Association of Utah)
Judge Rules Utah Can Cut Planned Parenthood Funds

SALT LAKE CITY - Women's health advocates are slamming a judge's decision Tuesday to allow the state of Utah to cut off $273,000 a year in federal fun…

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Utah is launching a new program to better children's lives called Evidence2Success. Courtesy: Annie E. Casey Foundation
Salt Lake County Adopts New Program to Improve Kids' Lives

SALT LAKE CITY - Kearns Township in Salt Lake County is gearing up to launch a new program called Evidence2Success that takes a hard look at what's g…

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Medicaid celebrates 50th anniversary July 30, 2015. Courtesy: Connecticut Department of Health
Report: Medicaid Helps Children's Future Health and Wealth

SALT LAKE CITY – A report released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Medicaid has found the program improves a child's long-term health…

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PHOTO: Hobby Lobby will not have to pay for insurance coverage for certain contraception procedures for its employees following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued Monday. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Utah Planned Parenthood Reacts to Justices' Hobby Lobby Ruling

SALT LAKE CITY - Family-planning advocates in Utah are reacting to Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that favors Hobby Lobby in its objection…

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PHOTO: The Utah Farmer's Union calls congressional delay in passing a new Farm Bill
Utah Farmer's Union: Farm Bill Delay "Ridiculous"

SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah Farmers Union is growing concerned that Congress, in letting the already-extended Farm Bill expire at the end of September…

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GRAPH: The CDC says the teen birth rate dropped to an historic low in 2012. Courtesy CDC.
Planned Parenthood: Parents Key To Lower Teen Birth Rate

SALT LAKE CITY - Teen birth rates in Utah and around the nation have dropped to historic lows, according to new Centers for Disease Control and …

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FDA's New 'Plan' for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month

SALT LAKE CITY – The timing might not have been intentional, but May is Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month – and the U.S. Food and Drug …

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