Jeff Caplan’s Afternoon News

KSL News Brief 6:30pm 26APR2024

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KSL News Brief 5:30pm April 26, 2024

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Today in GOP news...

the Republican state convention starts tomorrow AND we have a move from Senator Mike Lee... where he endorsed Celeste Maloy's opponent. 

KSL News Brief 4:30pm April 26, 2024

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Thunderstorms are rolling into the wasatch front.. and they're just the beginning.

KSL's Top Story:

A bizarre confrontation over modesty ...has led to a woman in St. George... facing sexual battery charges  

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Utah State scientists are getting a big pat on the back from NASA... for keeping their head in the clouds. 

KSL News Brief 4:00pm – April 25, 2024

An appeals court has overturned the rape convictions in New York... against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

KSL News Brief 3:30pm – April 25, 2024

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KSL's Top Story:

The team is live at The Delta Center for the NHL welcome party.

Crowds of people are still here at the Delta Center celebrating our new very own hockey team. 

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KSL News Brief 4:00pm – April 24, 2024

The Supreme Court is hearing a case about abortion bans... based in Idaho.

KSL News Brief 3:30pm – April 24, 2024

We're out here at the Delta Center... waiting as crowds roll in for the National Hockey Team welcome party. 

KSL News Brief 3:00pm – April 24, 2024

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KSL's Top Story:

A much calmer situation at Granger High School now... hours after the Granite school district says an argument involving a gel pellet gun left three students with minor injuries.. And two other students in police custody. 

KSL News brief 5:00 pm 04/23/2024

Senator Mike Lee is expressing his DIS-approval of the series of foreign aid bills passed by the House this weekend... and is rallying efforts to "kill the bill." 

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Officials are trying to figure out why four planes got clearance to cross an ACTIVE runway at JFK airport last week. 

KSL News Brief 4:00pm – April 23, 2024

The first witness David Pecker was on the stand again today in Trump's hush money trial....

KSL News Brief 3:30pm – April 23, 2024

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Here's what Jeff Caplan sounded like on the radio many moons ago.

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We're gonna spend nearly a billion.... but Before the move to Utah... Arizona's NHL team has a long history of draining the taxpayers
 
KSL Newsradio’s Aimee Cobabe with a look at a team that spent decades holding its hand out...

KSL News brief 5:00 pm 04/22/2024

Utah's party conventions are going to be held this Saturday... and joining me live is  is KSL at Night co-host and Political Consultant Taylor Morgan... who says this might be one of the most pivotal conventions Utah's had in decades. 

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Former BYU Cougar Zach Wilson is reportedly on his way to Colorado... traded from the New York Jets to the Denver Broncos. 

KSL News Brief 4:00pm – April 22, 2024

Squeezed in among the foreign aid bills passed by the US House over the weekend... was a little measure that would ban Tik Tok.  Or at least... force it's Chinese owners to sell the app.

KSL News Brief 3:30pm – April 22, 2024

Opening Arguments were fast... and the first witness has already been testifying at the Trump Trial in New York.

KSL News Brief 3:00pm – April 22, 2024

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Parents were ready to protest in the Salt Lake City School District this morning... over the way elementary school children were going to be told about the new bathroom law.

the measure that requires students use the facility corresponding to their sex at birth.

KSL News Brief 4:30pm – April 19, 2024

KSL News Brief 4:00pm – April 19, 2024

Jury selection in Donald Trump's hush money trial is over. 

A jury of 12 has been seated... with opening statements expected on Monday.

KSL News Brief 3:30pm – April 19, 2024

A little bit of the brand new Taylor Swift album.  "Tortured Poets Department" kept Swifties up all night after its release... and an extra surprise at midnight. 

There's only one person to dive into the album with... and that's KSL NewsRadio producer and our resident Taylor Swift Insider... Caitlyn Johnston...

KSL News Brief 3:00pm – April 19, 2024

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On the news that we're finally getting an NHL team... Utahns weren't shy to express their excitement. But do the Coyote players feel the same way?

KSL News Brief 5:30pm April 18, 2024

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KSL's Top Story:

Utah is getting an NHL Team

The man accused of killing four Idaho college students has finally given his alibi for the night of the murders.

Brian Kohberger says that in the early hours of November 13-th, 2022... he was on a hike.

KSL News brief 4:30 pm 04/18/2024

Utah's been preparing to welcome an NHL team to Salt Lake City well before the Coyotes were rumored to move here. 

A big part of that was a bill introduced this session to make it happen... we've been calling it the NHL bill. 

KSL News Brief 4:00pm – April 18, 2024

It's official.  Utah's getting an NHL team.  The Phoenix Coyotes will become the Utah Something or Others.  Ryan Smith is already selling season tickets.

KSL News Brief 3:30pm – April 18, 2024

There's controversy in Hollywood this afternoon over Artificial Intelligence.  Jason it's all about the #1 movie at the box office... Civil War.  But the movie's not the actual issue.

KSL News Brief 3:00pm – April 18, 2024

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KSL's Top Story:

One of the events that put Utah on the map ... could be leaving Utah... for good.

Sundance Film Festival is exploring whether to move out of state ... after 40 years.    

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Arizona's legislature has once again blocked the repeal of a century old abortion ban. 

The state's Supreme Court gave the green light for the 1864-law to be enforced earlier this month.

A Boeing whistleblower testified before a Senate Comittee today. The engineer claims the Boeing 787 could break apart in flight.

KSL News Brief 4:00pm – April 17, 2024

The impeachment trial of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is over. 

Just over an hour ago... the Senate killed the second and final impeachment article against him.

KSL News Brief 3:30pm – April 17, 2024

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tourists visiting our state in search of the world's greatest snow... spent nearly 2 billion dollars last year on their ski trips.

That's according to new data released by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute yesterday.

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KSL News Brief 4:00pm – April 16, 2024

Six jurors have now been seated in Donald Trump's hush money trial.

The former President is back in a New York city courtroom this afternoon, as the prosecution and his lawyers siphon through the crowd of potential jurors.