Sheriff's office confirms two dead in Morgan plane crash

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Daniel Bigelow (right) asks Wes Cowan to find out whether the first woman photographer assigned to the White House used this camera to photograph President Truman.

HISTORY DETECTIVES: Was local man's camera used in the White House?

Last updated Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 9:34am

Daniel Bigelow received an old-time gift from his grandmother that is possibly a part of American history.

A twin-reflex camera bore a puzzle piece inside that the "History Detectives" television series found interesting.

The PBS show, which researches antiques to determine if they have historical significance, will show the search for the origins of Bigelow's camera at 7 p.m. Aug. 30 on KUED Channel 7.

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Pleasant View couple Kurt and Wendy Green appear on “The Marriage Ref” at 8 p.m. today on KSL Channel 5.

Pleasant View duo dueling on 'The Marriage Ref'

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Last updated Sunday, August 7, 2011 - 12:46pm

Tonight, Kurt and Wendy Green air an unusual grievance on national television.

The Greens, from Pleasant View, are appearing on NBC's "The Marriage Ref" at 8 p.m. today on KSL Channel 5.

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Brittany Schulz and her son, Mason Schulz, 9, show off their Five Finters shoes on a running trail near Steed Park in Clearfield.

Shoes keeping runners on their toes

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Last updated Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 12:58pm

Brittany Schulz started running two years ago to lose weight.

She succeeded, losing 85 pounds, but it was fraught with pain and misery.

"I constantly had pain," Schulz said. "It was in my calves. It was in my shins. It was in my hips.

"I thought it was just because I was overweight. But then I got to my goal weight and I still had all of those pains."

She said she discovered the source of her pain when she read Christopher McDougall's book "Born to Run" (Knopf, 2009). She now believes that she was running incorrectly, and her shoes were the culprit.

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A sheep at Susan and Stig Hansen's Snow Mountain Sheep Creamery licks its lips as it eats while being milked at the farm in Eden.

Snowy Mountain creamery only dairy sheep farm in Utah

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Last updated Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 5:56pm

In the middle of Ogden Valley is a new kind of farm for Utah that is making waves across the nation. The place is the Snowy Mountain Sheep Creamery in Eden -- the only dairy sheep farm in the state.

The sheep creamery, owned and operated by Stig and Susan Hansen, is wrapping up just its sophomore year. But the results have impressed even the Hansens.

They took home the best of class award in March at the U.S. Cheese Championship with their Timpanogos Peak Blue Cheese.

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Fear & loathing

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Last updated Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 9:09am

We asked what freaks you out, and you answered.

Some of you talked about your fear of flying, for example, or of being shocked. But typically the responses were of the creepy, crawly variety. Spiders. snakes. grasshoppers.

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HOT ROD LOVE

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Last updated Sunday, June 26, 2011 - 12:55pm

It's the time of year when rows and rows of shined up hot rods get paraded around town -- including next weekend at the Cache Valley Fairgrounds.

Behind every buffed fender and shined headlight there is a story. These classic cars don't maintain their showroom-new condition forever; rather, car owners have turned a deep-seated love of hot rods into a hobby to restore and maintain vehicle history.

A number of Northern Utahns sent in pictures to tell their own stories of hot-rod love.

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Lora Erickson leaps over her daughter, Rachel Erickson, 4, at West Bountiful Park in Bountiful.

Running for relief from grief

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 8:59am

A new race event allows grieving parents to run the road together.

The Race For Grief 10K and 2K walk in Bountiful on Saturday is an awareness event for infant and pregnancy loss -- and a labor of love for Lora Erickson, race founder and professional running coach.

The 38-year-old Bountiful woman has been looking for a chance for 12 years to honor her daughter's short life. Doctors found Erickson had an "incompetent cervix" during the pregnancy, a medical condition in which the cervix dilates too early.

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Denise Hill, a contestant of NBC's The Biggest Loser, laughs with her trainer John Price at Four Pillars Fitness in Bountiful on May 31.
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'Biggest Loser's' Deni Hill persistent in pink

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 9:37pm

Denise “Deni” Hill had been telling everybody for months: “I am going to win.”

She told family, friends, trainers and “The Biggest Loser” that she was going to take the at-home prize at the “The Biggest Loser: Couples” finale on May 24.

“I shocked them all.

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At Four Pillars Fitness in Bountiful, Denise Hill demonstrates some of the training that helped her lose 125 pounds and win $100,000 on "The Biggest Loser."

"The Biggest Loser's" Dani Hill is persistent in pink

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 9:54am

Denise "Deni" Hill had been telling everybody for months: "I am going to win."

She told family, friends, trainers and "The Biggest Loser" that she was going to take the at-home prize at the "The Biggest Loser: Couples" finale on May 24.

"I shocked them all.

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'Losers' can still 'win'

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Last updated Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 9:36am

This season of NBC's "The Biggest Loser: Couples" had Northern Utah well-represented.

It all started with an Olympic hero, Rulon Gardner, who gained national attention and then made more waves when he quit. Add a natural-born captain and a mother/daughter team from Bountiful, and throw in a surprise duo from Ogden in the middle of the season.

The season, which began as a team competition, ends tonight at 7 p.m. on KSL Channel 5.

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Send away the clowns

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 2:01am

Cue the carnival music. Tie those balloon animals. Refill the seltzer bottles.

The clowns are here.

Did you jump into the nearest bush when you heard this? Well, you're not alone. You may have coulrophobia -- a fear of clowns.

Richard Arbogast, chief medical officer for McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, said that 10 percent of people, young and old, have a negative reaction to clowns.

A 2007 study by the University of Sheffield in the U.K. polled children at a children's hospital about decorating the ward with pictures of clowns.

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BAD CLOWNS

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Last updated Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 12:02am

Pennywise the Clown -- In the 1990 movie "It," the television adaptation of Stephen King's tale of horror, a group of kids are tormented by a clown demon. Pennywise beckons them to join him in the sewer: "We all float down here."

"Poltergeist" clown doll -- The movie series that started in 1982 brought tales of a family being threatened by ghosts -- and also featured an eerie combination of dolls.

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Samantha Highsmith poses for a portrait in front of Ogden High School.

Ogden film student answers the question 'What does freedom mean to me?' with "Even Handed"

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Last updated Sunday, May 15, 2011 - 4:05am

"Why do you care?"

The question was asked of Ogden High School senior Samantha Highsmith at school one day. She had a sticker on her notebook for the Human Rights Campaign, an organization that fights for gay and transgender rights.

A classmate asked Highsmith what the sticker was, and she told him about the campaign.

"His reaction really caught me off-guard," Highsmith said. "Basically, he asked me why I care if I am not gay. Why do I care personally?

"I thought, well, that's a good question. I just couldn't verbalize why.

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Scottie Spencer (center) engages with other youth his age during U-Fit, a family-centered program designed to children and youth with special needs, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Everyone fits in at U-FIT

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 6:03am

All fitness classes are not created equal.

Heidi and Scott Spencer, from Syracuse, can attest to that. They have searched for activities for their 12-year-old son who has motor skill problems.

A doctor referred them to U-Fit classes at the University of Utah. The class meets every Friday night during the spring and fall semesters.

"He isn't able to participate in gym. (But) you put him in the right environment, and wow, there he is playing catch," said Heidi Spencer. "There isn't anything in Davis County like this that I know of.

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Gardner: Goals reached, time to return home

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 9:02pm

The cast of NBC's "The Biggest Loser: Couples" was shocked Tuesday night when Olympic gold-medalist wrestler Rulon Gardner announced he was leaving the show.

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