Family, teachers remember Powell boys at Washington funeral

Paul Foy

Utah takes $171M in national mortgage settlement

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 4:08pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The money Utah will receive from a national settlement with big mortgage lenders might not be enough to pay every homeowner entitled to receive a share, state lawyers said Thursday.

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Feds oppose strip mine near Bryce Canyon

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 12:07pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal biologists say a strip mine at the backdoor to Utah’s storybook Bryce Canyon National Park will wipe out the southernmost population of sage grouse, even as their agency resists a broader effort to protect the bird across the West.

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(From left) Atomic representatives Greg Talbert and Rick Halling talk with Karl Andersson about Atomic cross-country skis Friday at the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City. More than 20,000 people in the recreation industry are taking part in the show, which is closed to consumers and has been held in Salt Lake City since 1996. The outdoor industry has steadily grown despite an economy hammered by recession. It posted an increase of 6 percent last year. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Inflatable avalanche vest lands 'Gear of the Show' honor

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 7:44am

SALT LAKE CITY -- An inflatable vest meant to keep skiers afloat in an avalanche has taken top honors at a premiere outdoor-gear trade show in Salt Lake City.

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Greg Cecil of Billings, Mont., stopped his morning commute to work Thursday and helped a stranded motorist in downtown Billings, Mont., Jan. 19, 2012. The heavy snowfall is causing some problems for people in the Billings area. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, David Grubbs)

N. Utah ski areas report receiving 15 inches of snow so far

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 4:17pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A winter storm sweeping over the Northern Rockies is bringing the winter’s first significant snowfall to Utah and hammering parts of Wyoming and Montana.

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Aerial view of Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF).
The plant covers 27 acres and is approximately 12 miles south of the town of Tooele.

Army burns off final chemical weapons in Utah

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 11:58am

STOCKTON — The U.S. Army will have destroyed about 90 percent of its aging chemical weapons after it wraps up work this week in Utah, where it has kept its largest stockpile — a witches’ brew of toxins, blister and blood agents that accumulated through the Cold War, officials said Wednesday.

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A table where doctors were to give an update of skier Sarah Burke's medical status sits empty after the family requested to cancel the press conference in Salt Lake City, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. According to a statement, family members decided not to meet with reporters after discussing results from the latest neurological tests and assessments with her doctors. Burke was injured Jan. 10 training on 22 foot superpipe at the Park City Mountain Resort. (AP Photo/George Frey)

Uncertainty clouds recovery of skier Burke in Utah

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 5:18pm

sALT LAKE CITY -- Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke's agent and her publicist were teary-eyed at a hospital Monday as they tried to explain the lack of any prognosis report for the Olympic favorite.

Burke, 29, was seriously injured Jan. 10 in a training accident at the superpipe in Park City, Utah, and six days later remained sedated on a breathing tube as doctors tested her brain functions.

Reporters gathered at Salt Lake City hospital Monday for what was expected to be a discussion by doctors of Burke's most recent neurological tests and assessments.

At the last minute, however, Burke's agent, Michael Spencer, and her publicist, Nicole Wool, said there was nothing the family wanted to report as doctors continued working on Burke, so the news conference was canceled.

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(The Associated Press) In this June 2011 photo, Chris Taketa looks for liquor stored in a walk-in freezer in the back of the Dojo sushi restaurant in Salt Lake City.

AG says Utah's happy hour ban is just

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 10:54pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah has authority to prevent beer taverns and liquor clubs from offering happy hour discounts, state attorneys said in a court filing defending peculiar regulations governing liquor in a state dominated by teetotaling Mormons.

A trade group for bars and restaurants filed the federal antitrust lawsuit in June, arguing that the happy hour ban amounted to price fixing by state authorities.

The Utah Hospitality Association amended its lawsuit in October to seek a court order that would prohibit Utah legislators from taking influence from the LDS Church when writing liquor laws.

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New charges filed against woman in Utah-Nev. crime spree

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 4:11pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Authorities on Wednesday filed new charges against a Utah woman suspected in a crime spree involving burglary, shootings and car theft across Utah and Nevada.

The new allegations underscore a case complicated by incomplete charges and dueling arrest warrants from authorities in Utah and Nevada against a pair of suspects that at times acted together and apart, and sometimes with a circle of friends in weeklong alleged crime spree. Authorities say they aren't finished filing charges or adding defendants.

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Michael Stewart holds a photo of his son Matthew David Stewart, who is accused of shooting six police officers and killing one, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, in Ogden, Utah. On Wednesday night six area law enforcement officers were shot while serving a search warrant. One officer from Ogden died from his wounds. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)

Suspect in deadly shootout was Army vet treated for PTSD, father says

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 6, 2012 - 10:11am

OGDEN — Search warrant in hand, a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, red-brick house, identifying themselves as police. When no one responded, authorities say, the officers burst inside.

That’s when the gunfire erupted.

When it was over Wednesday night, a 7-year veteran officer was dead and five of his colleagues were wounded, some critically. The suspect, an Army veteran whose estranged father said suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have been self-medicating with marijuana, was injured.

Now, as the city tries to grapple with the outburst of violence and the loss of one of its officers, investigators are trying to determine how the raid as part of a drug investigation could have gone so terribly wrong.

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Wife of slain officer says he loved his job 'more than anything'

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 2:02pm

OGDEN -- The wife an Ogden police officer killed in a shootout said her husband "loved his job more than anything."

Jared Francom was killed in a shootout that erupted when police raided a Utah house on Wednesday evening.

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(The Associated Press) In this photo of a video screen, murder suspect Angela Atwood cries after hearing the multiple charges against her during a hearing at Elko County Justice Court on Wednesday in Elko, Nev.

Woman’s survival in Utah-Nev. crime spree ’miraculous’

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 12:28am

WEST WENDOVER, Nev. — A bodybuilder who was shot in the head during a carjacking outside a Nevada casino — then drove herself to get help — was released from a Salt Lake City hospital just days after the shooting, which authorities said figured in a two-state crime spree.

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This image provided by Elko County, Nev., Sheriff's Dept. shows Angela Atwood, 24, who was arrested Jan. 3, 2012 in Nevada on suspicion of killing an elderly Utah couple, driving to Nevada in a stolen car, then shooting a woman during a botched carjacking. (AP Photo/Elko County Sheriff's Dept.)

Suspects in Utah-Nevada crime spree held in jail

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 1:54pm

ELKO, Nev. — The suspects in the killing of an elderly Utah couple and the shooting of a Nevada woman who fought off a carjacking are being held in a Nevada jail on suspicion of kidnapping, robbery and an attempted murder charge.

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This undated image made from surveillance video, provided by the West Wendover Police Department, shows an unidentified male who police suspect is one of two people involved in the killing of an elderly couple in their Utah home and shooting a woman in the head outside a Nevada casino. (AP Photo/West Wendover Police Department)

Suspects arrested in Utah murders, Wendover shooting

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 5:51pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A Nevada rancher who spotted a man and woman walking in a desolate area while surveying his cattle from the air on Tuesday led police to arrest the suspects in the killing an elderly Utah couple in a crime spree that spanned two states.

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Warrant issued for suspect in Utah murders, Wendover shooting

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 1:46pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Authorities issued an arrest warrant for a suspect in the killing of an elderly Utah couple and the shooting of a woman outside a Nevada casino.

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From left, Roger Andersen, his wife Mindy Andersen, family friend Dennis Wildman and Dennis' wife Lynette Wildman address the media Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at Logan Regional Hospital, in Logan, Utah. Andersen lost control of the car he was driving and it was submerged in an icy river. Other motorist were able to rescue three children trapped in the car. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)

Father thankful for passers-by who saved children from icy Logan river

Jim Urquhart, Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 3:23pm

LOGAN -- Roger Andersen thought it was over.

The 46-year-old lost control of his car this weekend on a winding Utah canyon road and slid into an icy river, trapping his 9-year-old daughter Mia and 4-year-old son Baylor, along with their friend, 9-year-old Kenya Wildman. The car flipped upside-down and quickly became submerged.

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