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Emergency personnel stand outside a house fire in Syracuse on Wednesday. The garage received extensive damage and the cause of the blaze is still undetermined.

House fire in Syracuse destroys garage, cause undetermined

Clayton Leuba Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 1:06am

SYRACUSE — Firefighters extinguished a house fire Wednesday afternoon and were still in the process of determining the cause Wednesday night.

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Surveillance video from Vapor Royale, an electronic cigarette store at 4001 Riverdale Road, shows this suspect during a burglary Monday. Two others were also caught on video. Anyone with information is asked to call South Ogden police at 801-629-8221. (Courtesy South Ogden Police Department)

S. Ogden police seek 3 suspects in e-cig store burglary

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 12:41am

SOUTH OGDEN — Police are searching for three burglars who stole about $4,700 worth of e-cigarettes and accessories from a South Ogden smoke shop.

Officers responded to an alarm at Vapor Royale, 4001 Riverdale Road, around 4 a.m. Monday, according to a South Ogden Police Department news release. They determined the business had been burglarized and the suspects had fled.

The burglars gained entry by throwing a rock through a door window, store owner Marco Herrera said Tuesday. High-end electronic cigarettes and assorted accessories were stolen.

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Kestra Casteel (left) and her brothers, Tristyn (middle) and Trevyn, pose in front of their junior dragsters at Rocky Mountain Raceway on Friday. (REYNALDO LEAL/Standard-Examiner)

Trio of West Point siblings live life at 85 mph

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, May 20, 2013 - 6:24am

WEST POINT — One West Point family’s hobby is so uncommon, the three kids are the only ones at their respective schools who participate in the sport, known as junior dragster racing.

The Casteel children — Kestra, 16, Tristyn, 13, and Trevyn, 10 — all compete in the sport that became popular in the early 1990s. It allows boys and girls, beginning at age 8, to race on the 1⁄8-mile track in a junior dragster vehicle, a scaled down version of a top fuel dragster, with its long, narrow frame, caged-in seating area, and large back tires and small front tires to maximize acceleration and speed.

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Austin Campbell (left) and Joseph DeTemple discuss the homemade accelerometer on Cole Orban’s arm during Physics Day at Lagoon on Friday. Students created the devices to measure gravitational forces while they rode the roller coaster. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Fair at Lagoon proves to students: Physics is amusing

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 12:38am

FARMINGTON — Josh Farah dipped his finger deep into the plastic jar of marshmallow cream and cleared room for his raw egg.

The 17-year-old from Alta High encouraged his friends to also have a taste even though he was in a hurry. In addition to having an entry in the egg-drop contest, his group also had an entry in a logo design competition for a future physics fair day held at Lagoon.

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Amy Church holds up a certified check for the amount of $797.15 that children raised during a bake sale to help save their librarian’s job in Ogden at the Ogden School District board meeting on Thursday. “I know this is a far cry from the $990,000 that is needed to retain them,” she said, “but this is strong evidence of what the citizens of Ogden want.” See video of the board meeting at www.standard.net

Ogden School Board faces anger over cutbacks

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, May 17, 2013 - 11:29am

OGDEN — Parents, librarians, former principals and teachers, and a few current students crowded into the Ogden School District’s board meeting Thursday night, many awaiting their chance to express their disappointment to the board and district officials about recent cost-cutting actions sparked by a $2.7 million budget deficit.

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