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Gabby Petito case: Moab, Utah police chief takes leave of absence amid investigation into handling of 911 call

MOAH, Utah - The head of Utah’s Moab Police Department is stepping away from his post and taking a leave of absence just days after the city announced it would be investigating officers’ handling of a possible domestic violence case last month involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie, Fox News Digital has confirmed.Police Chief Bret Edge requested a leave of absence under the Family Medical Leave Act that began Monday, Lisa Church, communications director for the City of Moab, confirmed to Fox News. The Moab Times-Independent was first to report the news.Edge and Moab Mayor Emily Niehaus did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request seeking comment.

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Gabby Petito case: Dispatch recordings show Utah police were told male struck female

NORTH PORT, Fla. - Minutes after Utah police were told about a report of a man striking a woman and taking off in a white Ford Transit van with Florida plates, officers pulled over Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito and appeared to zero in on her as the aggressor, dispatch radio recordings show."RP (reporting party) states a seeing male hit a female, domestic," the dispatcher states at around 4:38 p.m. MT on the day of the incident.

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Utah football player killed in house party shooting, police say

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 28: Aaron Lowe #2 of the Utah Utes looks on before their game against the Washington Huskies at Husky Stadium on November 28, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.

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Gabby Petito case: Brian Laundrie search continues following arrest warrant for using her bank card

The nationwide search for Brian Laundrie continued Friday after authorities issued a federal arrest warrant on Thursday evening for using his fiancée Gabby Petito’s bank debit card. The city of Moab, Utah also announced it’s launching an independent investigation into the way officers handled an incident with Petito and Laundrie on Aug.

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Moab to investigate police handling of Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito altercation

MOAB, Utah - The City of Moab, Utah, tells Fox News on Thursday that it is launching an investigation into how police handled an Aug. 12 incident between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie. "With the weeks-long search for Ms.

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Details of Gabby Petito's Utah fight with fiancé Brian Laundrie revealed in witness statement to police

domestic incident between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in Moab, Utah, believed that the couple was fighting over a phone and that Laundrie may have been trying to ditch his fiancée, according to a witness statement obtained by Fox News."They were talking aggressively [at] each other [and] something definitely seemed off," the witness, identified only as Christopher, wrote. "At one point, they were sort of fighting over a phone – I think the male took the female’s phone.

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Gabby Petito’s van spotted in stranger’s footage at Grand Teton National Park, family believes

a video that shows a white van at a campground in Grand Teton National Park on Aug. 27. The van appears to be the converted camper van that Petito and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, had been using to travel across the country and visit U.S.

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Moab murders not connected to missing Gabby Petito case, Utah sheriff now says

Utah investigators have determined that there is no connection between the horrific double murder of a newlywed couple found dead just outside Moab and the missing person case of Gabby Petito, who passed through the city with the fiancé who drove back to Florida without her."It has been determined that the Gabby Petito missing person case is not related to the double-homicide case involving Crystal Turner and Kylen Schulte," Grand County Sheriff Steven White said in a statement Friday afternoon.MOAB MURDERS: WHAT HAPPENED TO CRYSTAL TURNER AND KYLEN SCHULTE AFTER AUG. 13?The Grand County Sheriff’s Office said they are investigating any possible connection between the double homicide of Crystal Turner and Kylen Schulte (right) in mid-August,

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Gabby Petito: Utah sheriff says missing woman case 'not related' to double murder

MOAB, Utah - Authorities in Utah have ruled out a connection between the double homicide of two newlyweds at a campground outside Moab last month and the recent disappearance of 22-year-old Gabby Petito. In an ongoing effort to find Petito, who vanished after going on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend in a converted camper van, authorities have been "actively looking into any connection" between the two cases. The newlyweds, 38-year-old Crystal Turner and 24-year-old Kylen Schulte, were found shot to death at a campground southeast of Moab on Aug.

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Gabby Petito showed behavior of victim in Utah bodycam video, domestic violence counselor says

TAMPA, Fla. - A witness called police in Utah after seeing Gabby Petito and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, get into a physical altercation. Moab police released body camera footage of what followed.

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Gabby Petito body camera video reveals emotional encounter with boyfriend Brian Laundrie

MOAB, Utah - Newly-released body camera video from Utah police shows their encounter with Gabby Petito – a North Port woman who has since gone missing – and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, which lasted for over an hour and resulted in the two being separated after a physical encounter occurred between the couple earlier in the day.For over an hour, an emotional Gabby Petito sat in the back of a patrol vehicle on the side of a Utah road while Brian remained outside their camper van as law enforcement officials sorted out what transpired after a witness called police reporting a possible domestic violence situation between the two on August 12.Moab police released a report Wednesday about the incident.

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Police bodycam footage shows Gabby Petito, fiancé pulled over before her disappearance

Utah police have released body camera footage from Aug.

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Utah police report shows possible mental health concerns, tension between Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie

NORTH PORT, Fla. - A newly released report from the Moab Police Department in Utah shows possible tension, fueled by mental health issues, between Gabrielle Petito and Brian Laundrie in the days before she disappeared and he drove her van back to North Port, Florida.The report details the encounters officers had with the couple as well as a witness after police were called to respond to a possible domestic violence situation between Gabby and Brian on August 12. The responding officers ultimately determined the events did not add up to chargeable crimes, however, the officers did take steps to separate the pair for an evening in an effort to prevent escalation.North Port police named Brian Laundrie a person of interest in the disappearance

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United States endured hottest summer on record in 2021, NOAA says

This FILE photo shows smog on the shoreline of Chicago during a summer heat wave. (iStock/NOAA)PHILADELPHIA - Summer 2021 was the hottest on record for the contiguous United States, slightly surpassing the Dust Bowl summer of 1936 by less than 0.01 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a report released Thursday by NOAA.The average temperature during climatological summer – June through August – for the Lower 48 states was 74 degrees, or 2.6 degrees above the 20th-century average.

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Patton Oswalt cancels shows in Florida, Utah over venues’ refusal of COVID-19 protocols

FILE - Patton Oswalt attends the 33rd American Cinematheque Award Presentation Honoring Charlize Theron at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Nov. 08, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Patton Oswalt Cancels Comedy Tour Dates in These Two States Over COVID-19 Safety Concerns

Patton Oswalt has canceled a few shows on his upcoming Patton Oswalt Live: Who’s Ready To Laugh? tour.

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Athletes, celebrities honor Kobe Bryant on what would've been his 43rd birthday

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 13: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers smiles as a video is being played before taking on the Utah Jazz in Bryant's final NBA game at Staples Center on April 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expre LOS ANGELES - Monday marks what would have been NBA legend Kobe Bryant’s 43rd birthday.

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Alligator attacks handler at child’s birthday party in Utah

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - A guest at a Utah reptile center jumped into a large alligator enclosure to rescue a female handler pulled into a water tank by an alligator.In a video captured by party guest Theresa Wiseman, a woman who is an alligator instructor at Scales and Tails, a self-described "educational and entertainment company," attempts to guide a large alligator back into a water tank after it made its way onto a platform.The instructor signs a command, signaling for the alligator to retreat back into the water as a group of children attending the party look on from behind a glass barrier. RELATED: 'Darth Gator' video shows alligator escape enclosure in Southern CaliforniaBut instead of retreating, the alligator suddenly grabs the

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Wrong-way driver kills Utah bride on her way home from wedding reception, family says

A picture from GoFundMe shows Angelica Gabrielle Dhondup with her husband. A 26-year-old Utah woman was killed in a crash Friday night when a wrong-way driver struck her vehicle just hours after she married her high school sweetheart, according to her family.The accident happened just after 1 a.m.

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Kentucky woman dies, caught in flash flood in Arizona canyon

PAGE, Ariz. - Authorities are investigating the death of a Kentucky woman who was caught in a flash flood in a canyon near the Arizona-Utah border.Coconino County Sheriff’s officials said they received a call during the evening of July 31 about a possible drowning at Labyrinth Canyon on Lake Powell.They said 43-year-old Heather Rutledge of Louisville was hiking the canyon Saturday afternoon with her husband and three sons when they were all caught in a flash flood.Authorities are investigating the death of a Kentucky woman who was caught in a flash flood in a canyon near the Arizona-Utah border.

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Utah sandstorm causes 20-vehicle pileup, killing at least 7 people

KANOSH, Utah - At least seven people were killed and several others injured after a weekend sandstorm in Utah caused a 20-vehicle pileup, authorities said. The crash was reported around 4:30 p.m. local time on Sunday along Interstate 15 near the town of Kanosh, the Utah Highway Patrol said.

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US coronavirus cases rising again, doubling over three weeks

COVID-19 shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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35,000 fish dropped from airplane to restock remote Utah lake

BOLDER MOUNTAIN, Utah - Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources released footage of an airplane dropping fish into a remote lake in the Boulder Mountain region.In the video, a small aircraft released a plethora of fish into the lake as Utah increases its efforts to restock remote high elevation lakes across the state.The wildlife division stocked around 200 remote lakes that are not accessible by vehicle across the state in early June.RELATED: Meth addiction in fish poses threat to ecosystem balance, study saysIn a Facebook post, the division said the airplane holds "hundreds of pounds of water and can drop 35,000 fish in a single flight without reloading."The fish are between 1-3 inches long and flutter slowly down toward the water.

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Video shows hoverboard explode in Utah home

SALT LAKE CITY - Home security camera footage shows the moment when a young Utah boy’s hoverboard lit up in flames and exploded in the family’s living room. Tamilisa Miner posted the video on her Facebook page on June 18, which shows smoke rising from her son’s hoverboard before it explodes into flames sending debris across the room. Miner’s son frantically runs past the hoverboard but was thankfully not harmed according to Miner. She said the hoverboard almost set the house on fire."Battery cells shot out like shrapnel starting smaller fires," Miner wrote on a Facebook post.

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Officials across US West ban fireworks amid historic drought

with an extraordinary heat wave.In Salt Lake City, Utah, personal fireworks were banned amid the record drought, though the city will still host a professional show. "Our foothills, open spaces, and even our yards and park strips are dry and could be ignited by a single spark, threatening life, safety, and property," Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said, according to FOX 13. Just south in Eagle Mountain, city officials canceled their fireworks show given "persistent dry conditions, high winds, warmer temperatures and limited water resource.Utah Gov.

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Video: Dust devil flips, breaks trampoline in Utah

HERRIMAN, Utah - Home security footage recorded a dust devil flipping and breaking a Utah resident’s trampoline on June 13. In the video captured outside Ben Cedeno’s home in Herriman, Utah, a particularly strong dust devil swept his trampoline up into the air, spun it around and dropped it upside down onto the ground. Cedeno said the trampoline was broken and had to be thrown out, but said he was thankful no one was hurt and none of his neighbors’ property was damaged. Freeze frame of a dust devil sweeping up trampoline.

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Missouri leads nation in new COVID-19 infections

Missouri now has the highest rate of new COVID-19 infections, due to a combination of rising Delta variant (B1617.2) activity and one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.

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Anticoagulation tied to fewer deaths in hospital COVID patients

Anticoagulation therapy given to prevent or treat venous thromboembolism (VTE) was linked to lower death rates in hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients, but the association remained at 60 days only for the prophylactic (preventive) strategy, according to a multicenter study today in JAMA Network Open.

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$10K reward to help identify boy found dead near Las Vegas trail

LAS VEGAS - The FBI in Las Vegas is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can offer information that will lead to identifying a boy whose body was discovered by hikers near a trail on May 28.Officials released an updated digitally enhanced picture of the boy, hoping someone can help identify him. A mother and metro Las Vegas authorities originally misidentified the 8-year-old boy as a young homicide victim, police said Saturday, after the boy, an older half-brother and their father were all found safe in Utah, Las Vegas Homicide Lt.

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9-year-old driver, sister crash into semi-truck on Utah freeway

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - Two young sisters were involved in a head-on crash involving a semi-truck on a roadway in Utah Wednesday morning.According to West Valley City Police Department, a nine-year-old girl was driving the vehicle with her four-year-old sister in the car, when they attempted to get on the freeway in West Valley City."The young girl and her 4-year-old sister apparently snagged the keys to the family car while their parents were sleeping and set out on their own summer adventure," the police wrote on Facebook.The girls drove about 10 miles from their home in West Jordan -- via a highway and a freeway -- before exiting off, hopping a median and slamming head-on into a semi-truck. Police said the children got into the vehicle

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Utah Jazz legend Mark Eaton dies at 64

SALT LAKE CITY - 1988: Mark Eaton #53 of the Utah Jazz plays defense during an NBA game at The Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1988. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images) Mark Eaton, the 7-foot-4 shot-blocking king who twice was the NBA's defensive player of the year during his career with the Utah Jazz, has died, the team said Saturday.

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97-year-old Utah woman's headstone includes her favorite fudge recipe

(Courtesy: Todd Tanner/KSTU) LOGAN, Utah - While most cemetery headstones can give you a small glimpse into the lives of the people buried there, they don't usually catch your eye like this one does.Utah's Logan Cemetery contains the headstone of Wade and Kathryn Andrews, and along with their birth and death dates, you'll find their life story etched on the side -- plus Kathryn's famous fudge recipe.Janice Johnson told KSTU that her mother Kathryn, who went by the nickname "Kay," would take fudge whenever people got together.Kay and Wade were both members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and met at a church function in New York City, where she had moved from Utah to study fashion design.RELATED: 9-year-old finds $5,000

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8th-seeded Memphis beats No. 1-seeded Jazz in series opener

SALT LAKE CITY – Dillon Brooks had 31 points and seven rebounds and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Utah Jazz 112-109 Sunday night in the opening game of their first-round playoff series.

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Grizzlies end Spurs' season in play-in game winning 100-96

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Dillon Brooks scored eight of his 24 points in the fourth quarter to help put Memphis ahead to stay and the Grizzlies eliminated the San Antonio Spurs 100-96 on Wednesday night in the first Western Conference play-in game.

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Bogdanovic scores 22 as Jazz top Thunder 109-93

OKLAHOMA CITY – Bojan Bogdanovic scored 22 points, and the Utah Jazz beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 109-93 on Friday night to inch closer to claiming the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs.

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Booker hits late free throws, Suns top Trail Blazers 118-117

PHOENIX – Devin Booker wasn’t at his best Thursday night. Regardless, there was no question he was getting the ball with the game on the line.

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3s for all: NBA sets season record for 3-pointers per game

The NBA’s 3-point dependence is stronger than ever.

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Stephen Curry's late 3 lifts Warriors past Jazz 119-116

SAN FRANCISCO – Stephen Curry needed every bit from his supporting cast for the Golden State Warriors to secure a play-in berth, then found his shooting touch right when it mattered most.

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Pandemic gives boost as more states move to digital IDs

SALT LAKE CITY – The card that millions of people use to prove their identity to everyone from police officers to liquor store owners may soon be a thing of the past as a growing number of states develop digital driver’s licenses.

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Missing Utah woman found living in tent after disappearing from campsite in November

Utah woman who went missing near a trailhead in November has been found alive in a tent more than five months after she disappeared in the area, authorities said.The 47-year-old woman, whose name was withheld, was first reported missing on Nov. 25, 2020, in the Diamond Fork area of Spanish Fork Canyon after a U.S.

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Missing woman found alive, living off grass in Utah canyon after 5 months

Utah, where she had been sleeping in a tent and eating grass and moss for the last five months.The Utah County Sheriff’s Office says she looked weak but she was “there by choice,” despite the difficult conditions of her off-the-grid lifestyle. Italian man accused of skipping work for 15 years straight The woman, 47, was declared missing last November after her seemingly abandoned car and camping equipment were found in a parking lot near Spanish Fork Canyon, roughly 75 kilometres south of Salt Lake City.The Utah County Sheriff’s Office searched the area but failed to find her, and could not get in touch with any of her relatives.

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Jill Biden to meet military spouses during stop in Colorado

DENVER – First lady Jill Biden plans to visit military spouses Thursday at an Army base in Colorado, her last stop during a swing through the U.S. West.

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Capela, Hawks pull away late to take 135-103 win over Suns

ATLANTA – Clint Capela scored 18 points to lead seven scorers in double figures and the Atlanta Hawks pulled away late to overcome Devin Booker's 30 points and rout the Phoenix Suns 135-103 on Wednesday night.

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Jill Biden to visit Utah school as US moves toward reopening

SALT LAKE CITY – First lady Jill Biden plans to speak at a Salt Lake City school Wednesday as the U.S. makes uneven progress toward reopening classrooms during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Booker scores 31, Suns dominate OT to beat Cavs 134-118

CLEVELAND – Devin Booker scored 31 points, Chris Paul had 23 and 16 assists and the Phoenix Suns stayed in step with Utah atop the Western Conference by outlasting the under-manned Cleveland Cavaliers 134-118 in overtime on Tuesday night for their fifth straight win.

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Whose 'Big Lie'? Trump's proclamation a new GOP litmus test

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump and his supporters are intensifying efforts to shame — and potentially remove — members of their party who are seen as disloyal to the former president and his false claims that last year's election was stolen from him.

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‘Just came out of nowhere’: Mom who gave birth on flight to Hawaii says she didn’t know she was pregnant

Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga holds her baby after giving birth during a flight from Utah to Hawaii. (Credit: Hawai‘i Pacific Health) HONOLULU - Lavinia "Lavi" Mounga didn’t know she was even pregnant until she was on a plane from Salt Lake City to Honolulu, Hawaii and delivered her first child, a boy, midway through the flight on April 28. "I just didn’t know I was pregnant," Mounga said in a video interview released from Hawai‘i Pacific Health to FOX Television Stations Monday.

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Nurses, doctor help ‘lucky’ mom who gives birth on flight to Hawaii

HONOLULU – A doctor and a team of neonatal medical professionals were in the right place at the right time — helping a Utah woman deliver her baby onboard an hourslong flight to Hawaii.

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