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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) ATK performs a motor test of the five-segment Ares rocket in Promontory on Tuesday. The $75 million test comes at a time of uncertainty for the company and NASA.

Firing it up in Promontory

PROMONTORY -- In a long, skinny building on a Box Elder County hill sat one chilly rocket for most of the summer.

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Third-graders Rachael Spjut (left) and Sage Mitchell watch their teachers ride in a hot-air balloon Tuesday at Centerville's Stewart Elementary School.

Which Way To Oz? / School kids learn the science behind Stampede Festival's hot-air balloons

CENTERVILLE -- Watching a hot-air balloon rise into the sky just yards from where he was sitting is not the kind of experience fifth-grader Carson Ashby has most days at school.

(Courtesy photo) Arlyn Creek, 29, skydives over Ogden in August. The Gardiner, Mont., man died Wednesday in a collision while skydiving with a group near Ogden-Hinckley Airport.

Loved ones reminisce at iFLY / Man killed while skydiving in Ogden 'lived his life the way he wanted to live it'

OGDEN -- Arlyn Creek was always smiling, no matter how bad the mood was around him. That's how family and friends are remembering the 29-year-old Gardiner, Mont., man who lost his life while skydiving Wednesday.

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Zuri, the first African elephant born at Utah’s Hogle Zoo, eats popcorn during her birthday party at the zoo, on Saturday, August 14.

Big birthday for big baby

What a year it's been for baby Zuri -- first steps, first teeth, first solid foods.

And don't forget her first "trumpet," an extremely elephant-ish thing to do.

(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Ogden residents sign a petition and an e-mail list regarding legislation on the ban of “spice” during a town meeting Tuesday at Rolling Hills Park.  A store on the same street as Ben Lomond High School and Horace Mann Elementary School sells spice, which is sold as incense but smoked by many to get a high similar to that of marijuana. Area residents want the sales to stop.

Spice near schools a hot topic / Residents protest sale of psycho-toxic 'incense' in Ogden neighborhood, dislike crowd it draws

OGDEN -- On back-to-school night at Horace Mann Elementary, about 150 neighbors gathered at a nearby park to address concerns about a convenience store, next to the school, that sells "spice," a substance that is legal to buy and possess, but that creates a marijuana-like high if smoked.

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