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In an attempt raise awareness of the starving people in Haiti, ground-breaking television news magazine The Truant, held a giant feast at the local country club and invited much if its staff and a handful local politicians.
Being that it was early in the year and the petty cash had not been blown on, well,...
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When local Yellow Lab Sparky fell into an emotional funk recently, his owners the Robertsons had no idea what to do to help their beloved pet.
“Sparky started to prefer spending time alone in the cold garage to spending time with his family,” father Ed Robertson says. “That’s not right.”
After exploring numerous false avenues, sparing...
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Farley, the purebred Cocker Spaniel puppy recently purchased at a cost of $600 by Todd Daniels for the amusement of his children, was struck by a 1998 Subaru Forester Tuesday evening and expired shortly thereafter.
"Gol dang it, that dog was expensive!" was Daniels' emotional reaction to Farley's demise.
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SALT LAKE CITY— Through the combined efforts of the newly promoted and homophobic governor of Utah, Gary Herbert, and the, um, also homophobic president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas ‘The Bull’ Monson, a Salt Lake City landfill became a historical landmark this weekend.
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USU graduate student and noted animal lover Jared Jenkins added another dog Wednesday to make the total pet population of his house 42. Jenkins’s pets, which include a ferret, four dogs, some hamsters and a couple cats which he hasn’t gotten around to naming. Those familiar with the situation said it basically amounts...
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We at The Truant pride ourselves in our unbiased and fearless reporting on the issues that affect the world we live in from both the national and international stage. With a scope so broad our readers may think it would be easy for us to forget about the small things in life, the small...
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Ed. Note: This article was written by a bonobo named Chauncey. Chauncey use to write most of the material for The Truant until our office was raided and all responsible staff was taken in to custody and charged with soliciting prostitutes and animal cruelty-hence the lack of good articles since last fall. The primate...
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LOGAN – A staff member of The Truant has been arrested on felony charges of animal cruelty, adding insult to recent injury. The arrest happened fresh on the heels of the newspaper’s staff being thrown out of the KVNU radio studio for its material being too Christian and overly conservative.
Lordy Tremain, the self-proclaimed “Fourth...
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SALT LAKE CITY – Officials from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources warned bench-dwellers throughout Utah to be alert to possible threats posed to their children by droves of roaming, horny bears coming down out of the mountains.
“Right now, bears throughout the state are making their final preparations for hibernating this winter,” Terry McTiernish,...
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