Eight-year-old dies after he ‘flew off’ playground slide

TOOELE COUNTY, UT – Timothy and Kathryn Cunningham, parents of a Utah elementary school boy, are suing the Tooele County School District following their son’s fatal fall from a playground slide. Eight-year-old Dallin Cunningham fell 7 feet from a corkscrew slide at Rose Springs Elementary School on February 6. According to a lawsuit the parents filed, Dallin “flew out” during a turn on the slide, leading to a fatal collision with the “frozen rock-hard” mulch …

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Utah trooper crashes into wrong-way driver

A Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) sergeant is being commended for his quick thinking and bravery after deliberately crashing head-on into a vehicle traveling in the wrong direction on I-80 in Tooele County. The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon, near Lake Point. Upon receiving an alert from emergency dispatchers about the wrong-way driver, a pickup truck pulling a trailer traveling east in the westbound lanes, troopers in the area were instructed to be vigilant. The UHP …

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