For a distinguished example of local reporting in a United States newspaper, published daily, Sunday, or at least once a week, during the year, the test being the quality of local news stories written under the pressure of edition time.
—Pulitzer Prize category
It was the Fourth of July, and Robert David Mullins, the Salt Lake City Deseret News correspondent in Price, Utah, a mining town 125 miles south of the state capital, was celebrating the holiday by watching his four-year-old daughter wave sparklers in the warm desert evening. Then the phone rang. Murder...
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