Zoi Walker

Online dating is a fixture in today’s culture, often riddled with the same frustrations and quirks as searching for love in person. Online, though, it’s maybe not a matter of looking for love in all the wrong places, but a matter of looking for love among the wrong people.

There are thousands of scams floating around the far-flung corners of the internet, all horrendous in their own right. But the most violating and egregious are the ones that prey on those just trying to find a potential partner or love connection.

SALT LAKE CITY—The Granite School District Board of Education might close schools or change school boundaries in certain areas of the district. Spokesman Ben Horsley says both options are up in the air, but the decision would affect about 12 schools.
The board is considering these changes because several schools are getting smaller.
“That limits options for parents, options for students and diminishes our ability for high quality educational outcomes,” said Horsley.
Horsley says three of the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Robert Driedonks owns a museum located on Highway 12. He says that he heard the bus crash that killed at least four people and injured at least 12 more on Friday.
“I was on my second story … and I heard, like, a bomb,” Driedonks told KSL Newsradio. “I looked over and I saw a double trailer cement truck and a bus destroyed.”
The Garfield County Sheriff’s office says the bus, filled with tourists from China, was traveling east on Highway 12 when it ran off the road and rolled i...

WEST JORDAN CITY— West Jordan police officers have replaced a young girl’s bike after she was hit by a car near Joel P. Jensen Middle School.
Sargent J.C. Holt said officers and school officials teamed up to replace Camille’s bike and helmet out of pocket. “Her bike was just demolished as a result of the accident. The officers just thought it would be a nice gesture to replace the bike,” said Holt.
Camille was injured a few weeks ago when a car hit her while she was riding her bike home from ...

SALT LAKE CITY—Congressman Ben McAdams told Dave and Dujanovic Thursday Facebook’s new cryptocurrency might enable child exploitation. The currency ‘Libra’ gives users more privacy but McAdams thinks it lets predators share illicit information.
“If you have a currency that is completely and one hundred percent anonymous—there’s some scary things that can happen… and you might see an uptick in terrorism, in child exploitation, inhuman trafficking, in weapons trafficking,” McAdams said.
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(Jeremy Harmon | Tribune file photo) Late afternoon sun drenches the Utah State Fair in Salt Lake City, Sept. 14, 2019.
The state fair attended by hundreds of thousands of Utahns each summer may be canceled for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Larry Mullenax, executive director for Utah State Fair Corporation, said the nonprofit will decide the fair’s fate by the end of the week.
“We’ve been closely monitoring the number of confirmed cases throughout the state and the trajectory of those...

(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) This Aug. 27, 2019, file photo shows ranchers before they moved 1,200 head of cattle through Logan Canyon.
Last month — in an effort to maintain supply — grocery stores in Utah put limits on the amount of beef customers could buy in one shopping trip.
While some Utahns may have worried about the state’s beef supply, Brent Tanner, executive director for Utah Beef Council, told lawmakers Monday that there’s plenty of cattle available.
“It’s not that we have a...

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Weber County Sheriff Complex entrance Thursday, September 15 2011
As COVID-19 cases spike throughout the state, the virus is making its way into Utah’s prison and jails, infecting three inmates at the Utah State Prison, one at Weber County Jail, 23 at Salt Lake County Jail, and 11 at Bonneville Community Correctional Center, a halfway house in Salt Lake City.
At the Utah State Prison in Draper, two inmates with the coronavirus have recovered so far and o...

(Photo courtesy of SB Dance) Annie Kent performs outdoors to live music in an SB Dance mobile performance, part of the performing arts company's response to the pandemic.
With a cool summer breeze on their backs, eight people — seated 6 feet apart — watched as Annie Kent danced gracefully around a small stage mounted on a trailer, accompanied by a singer and a guitarist for a five-minute performance in the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City.
Utahns who miss going to the theater have this ...

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Councilman Andrew Johnston, represents District 2 in Salt Lake City which includes Glendale, Fairpark and Poplar Grove, Wednesday July 1, 2020. He's frustrated and angry that COVID-19 is hitting low-income areas hardest for a number of reasons including the inability of residents to work from home or sacrifice their incomes during the pandemic, unequal access to health care and systemic inequities.
A new study shows low-income Utahns — who ar...

Ladan Mohamed, a Somali 23-year-old from Riverdale, worked hard to fit in at Bonneville High School, she said, and was elected the student body president.
“I would be up on the stage at assemblies introducing what was happening,” she said. “And people would just scream profanities at me, like they’d call me a terrorist, they’d say the N-word, it was really bad.”
The discrimination she experienced growing up in Utah eventually became a factor in her choice to leave the state last year, after c...

(Photo courtesy of Justin Watson) Still image of Justin Watson's art piece submitted for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art's "Please Touch the Art" exhibit. The image contains layers of images from past and recent protests. Watson's goal was to evaluate the historical perspective behind today's police violence protests.
Have you ever been tempted to touch a beautiful piece of artwork in a museum? Utahns can put their own spin on artwork and become a part of an exhibit this Saturday at the U...

Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) students have sent a clear message to the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre: “You have lost our trust.”
In a letter to President Ruth Watkins, U. trustees and the department, the students said they feel “unsafe, exploited, belittled and unwelcome” in the U.’s classrooms and productions due to pressure to perform in stereotypical roles. They also list a curriculum that includes few plays that tell the stories of people of color and describ...