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Quest to legalise polygamy in Utah

Some 40,000 people in the US state of Utah live in illegal polygamous families in which a man takes more than one wife.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7953270.stm

2009-03-21

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Ancient Utah artefacts unveiled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3857761.stm

2004-07-01

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In Utah, company aims to store energy in air

A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and solving one of the most vexing problems facing the clean-energy industry -- how to store power. Under a barren patch of Utah desert, a private-equity group is bankrolling the project to hollow out a series of energy-storage vaults from a massive salt deposit a mile...

http://news.ino.com/headlines/

2010-02-07

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Utah firing squad execution for Ronnie Lee Gardner

Chose the firing squad as his method of execution before it was banned by Utah in 2004. He was only the third man put to death in that way in the US since 1976.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10347166.stm

2010-06-18

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