High voter turnout for Tuesday’s City Council election, with 37 percent of voters turning in a ballot
Signs of life in the local construction industry, with dozers moving on the new Pediatric Partners medical offices, Horse Gulch Trailhead and the Mercury Village

The capture this week of the “Mountain Man” survivalist fugitive in Southern Utah, who had spent the last decade vandalizing and burglarizing cabins and was referred to as a “ticking time bomb” by authorities
The recent rise in high-profile white supremacist crimes, with the murder of Colorado’ prison chief as well as a Texas district attorney and his wife

 
 

Escalating tensions between North and South Korea, which could trigger a wider nuclear-arms race in North Asia and the Mideast
 
 
The recent “School Shield Program” report, in which former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) recommended arming kindergarten teachers with “everything from a sidearm, to a shotgun, to an AR-15”