LAYTON -- Members of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation walked away from their annual two-day convention with a call to political action from more than one of their own.

OGDEN -- Flying J Insurance Company will be sold to The Buckner Company as of Jan. 1.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of President Barack Obama that many aren't bothering to show up for auctions.

OGDEN -- It's hard to believe that Pat Robinson is 40 years old when you ask him about how excited he is to start talking on the phone all day.

I thought by now someone, pro or con, would have commented on Sunday's piece about how much our mayor should make. ("How much should your mayor make?," Nov. 14)

(UNEDITED)This letter concerns the "Stupak Amendment" that was passed in the House health care bill and is now being considered by the Senate. This amendment would make it nearly impossible for women to choose abortion rights, even if they use their own money to buy health insurance. Federal funds cannot be used to cover an abortion, and the Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court settled the matter about women's freedom to choose.

Again We must put up with two more mindless followers of the far left, or should I say from The Land of Oz. Yes, Fox has many good reporters and journalists who have their opinions, as they are human, not like the god Obama you worship. You both must watch FOX to enable yoy to know enough to spew your vitriol.I suggest you have TOTO show you the channel selector or the off button on your TV.

Jack E. Olson

Roy

Perhaps you've long believed that extremist Islamic terrorism poses the greatest danger to America. Well, the Republicans wish to disabuse you of that notion.

House GOP leader John Boehner declared the other day that health-care reform is actually "the greatest threat to freedom that I've seen in the 19 years I've been in Washington" -- an enlightening assertion, since I'd foolishly figured that the piloting of a plane full of innocents into the Pentagon wall had constituted the greatest assault on freedom in Washington. Call me crazy, but I'd assumed that al-Qaeda scored higher on the fright meter than the prospect of Americans getting the same health protections that are common everywhere else in the democratized world.

SLIDESHOW: Weber State vs. Cal Poly football

OGDEN -- Finally, Josh Morris got to return an interception.

SLIDESHOW: BYU vs. Air Force football

PROVO -- Max Hall had a full day: five touchdowns, a school record for wins and even a penalty for a tussle with a defensive player after an interception.

SLIDESHOW: Jazz vs. Pistons basketball

SALT LAKE CITY -- On the heels of their most meaningful win so far this season, the last thing the Jazz wanted to do Saturday was give one back.

Suzie Roberts knew there had to be a better way. As she ordered fast-food pizzas, she told herself if she were just more organized, she would have nutritious, family-friendly meals waiting in her freezer for her busiest nights.

"Dinnertime was always crazy in our home," the Perry woman said. "We would wait until the last minute to decide what was for dinner, and all heck breaks loose when you don't plan ahead."

So in 2004, Roberts came up with a plan: She would find nine friends willing to make, freeze and trade meals. And with a once-a-month effort, all 10 families would have made-ahead meals ready to thaw, cook and consume on their busiest days.

INTERACTIVE: Plus Size Fashion

RALEIGH, N.C. — Ask model and fashion designer Emme whether television and other media are more accepting of plus-size people, and she quickly corrects you.

"Average women," she says.

The host of the new Fox reality dating show, "More to Love," has been on this campaign since the mid-1990s, when she began telling full-size women to be more accepting of themselves. In her latest venture, she guides a 6-foot-3, 330-pound man who as he chooses among 20 women who wear sizes ranging from 14 to 22.

When Meredith Leyva's husband decided to join the U.S. Navy, she was fine with the idea.

"When it actually happened, it was a complete shock," she said. "I was working in a very promising job, in Washington, D.C., earning more money than my husband did, and I was shocked the Navy wanted to relocate us and deploy him. After all, who did they think made the money in the family to support his military addiction?"

That was 12 years ago.

A whiskey bottle and a barroom brawl landed Mary Alice Devitt Laird with her colorful nickname.

"No-Nose Maggie" she is known as today, in recognition of the damage inflicted to her face after that skirmish in a mining camp saloon at Fish Springs.

Laird was a prostitute, one of Utah's infamous "ladies of the night," who made a new life for herself after her disfigurement and became a store owner and operator in Utah's isolated West Desert.

Her 40 years in the mining camp of Joy garnered her another nickname from a great-niece writing about her life story -- "Queen of the Desert."