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Salt Lake airport planners want your ideas, input

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:25:42 MDT

Salt Lake airport planners want your ideas, input

By Christopher Smart The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 13, 2013 11:25PM MDT

If you are a frequent flier or just a sometimes traveler, officials want your input on the proposed $1.8 billion facility that will replace the Salt Lake City International Airport. Construction is set to begin in one year. The new airport will be located just to the north and west of the existing terminals, said spokeswoman Barbara Gann, and will take eight to 10 years to complete. The main terminal should be completed in five years. The existing facility will operate while the new one gets bu...

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Nephew: Saudi man mistakenly jailed for pressure cooker at airport

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:56:46 MDT

Nephew: Saudi man mistakenly jailed for pressure cooker at airport

By JEFF KAROUB The Associated Press

Updated May 13, 2013 02:56PM MDT

DETROIT • The nephew of a Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport says the case is a misunderstanding, and that the pressure cooker his uncle was bringing for him so he could make lamb. Nasser Almarzooq told The Associated Press on Monday that he’d asked his uncle, Hussain Al Khawahir, to bring him a pressure cooker because the ones he bought in the U.S. didn’t work. Two pressure cookers were used in last month’s Boston Marathon bombings. Almarzooq says he’s concerned about his uncle ...

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Now official: Ogden, Provo airport towers get reprieve

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:50:26 MDT

Now official: Ogden, Provo airport towers get reprieve

By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 11, 2013 10:50AM MDT

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood officially rescinded on Friday what had been death warrants for airport towers in Ogden, Provo and 147 other cities nationally. He issued a statement that he determined a bill passed by Congress last month to stop what had been disruptive furloughs for air traffic controllers also included enough money to save the 149 federal contract control towers through the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year. Those towers had been scheduled to close on June 15 — part of ...

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Rash of banned weapons found at SLC airport

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:16:37 MDT

Rash of banned weapons found at SLC airport

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 10, 2013 10:16PM MDT

After a rash of seizing banned self-defense weapons at Salt Lake City International Airport this week, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration is urging travelers to be more diligent checking what is allowed and what they are carrying in baggage. The TSA said that between Saturday and Thursday, officers confiscated two sets of brass knuckles (one that included a knife), two kubotans (hand-held sticks used in some martial arts) and a “bo” marital arts wooden staff. All those items are ba...

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Ute cabby

Fri, 10 May 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Ute cabby

Updated May 10, 2013 01:01AM MDT

What happened to supporting local businesses? According to a court ruling, Salt Lake may hire two out-of-state taxi firms (“Judge: Salt Lake City can install new cab service at airport, elsewhere,” Tribune, April 30). I am disappointed in Salt Lake City and this decision. This may not seem like a big thing, but it marks the end of a legacy. My father started Ute Cab Company in 1949. He drove until just a few months before his death and my family has been running the company since. We have ne...

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Utah man who prompted marsh standoff sentenced to house arrest

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:07:48 MDT

Utah man who prompted marsh standoff sentenced to house arrest

By Marissa Lang The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 10, 2013 09:07AM MDT

A man accused of firing a gun at an ATV rider and prompting a standoff in the marshes near the Salt Lake City International Airport last summer was sentenced Tuesday to two months house arrest and a year of probation. Brian Ray Skidmore, 51, of North Salt Lake, was found guilty in March of four criminal charges after a bench trial before 2nd District Judge Glen Dawson. In a bench trial, there is no jury; instead, a judge rules on the defendant’s guilt. Skidmore was convicted of third-degree fel...

Utah music fan goes east to hear favorite composer

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:54:52 MDT

Utah music fan goes east to hear favorite composer

By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 8, 2013 09:54AM MDT

How far would you go to satisfy your love of music? Utah music fan David Sullivan was scheduled to go to New York Tuesday night — the second of two trips to the Empire State — because the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is performing a rarity, Russian composer Reinhold Gliere’s Third Symphony. According to The Buffalo News, Sullilvan flew to Buffalo last weekend to hear the work performed there, and tonight will hop a red-eye to New York, where the BPO is playing the work at Carnegie Hall tonight...

Woman, 83, missing after arrival at DC airport

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:41:03 MDT

Woman, 83, missing after arrival at DC airport

The Associated Press

Updated May 6, 2013 10:41AM MDT

WASHINGTON • An 83-year-old woman is missing after arriving at a Washington airport on a flight from Barbados. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority police say Victoria Kong was last seen Friday evening at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. She was walking north along a paved trail for hikers and bicycles. Kong’s family says they were waiting for her to be escorted off the flight by wheelchair, but she never showed up. Granddaughter Alexandria Anderson says Kong is showing some earl...