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FILE - Volunteer Tyson Hutchison takes beaver #1 to get a bath at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah in Ogden on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. The beaver was the first one brought to the center and recieves a bath three times a day. (KERA WILLIAMS/ Special to the Standard-Examiner)

Recovering beavers could be released next month

Last updated Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 9:22am

OGDEN -- The owner of a Utah wildlife rehabilitation center says six beavers are making good progress after being recovered amid a fuel spill in March.

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FILE - In this Sunday, June 16, 2013 photo, a member of the clergy leaves the Saint James Catholic Church in Ogden, Utah, where James Evans was shot in the head in front of a congregation of 300 during Sunday services. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Rick Egan)

Comforting words offered at scene of Father’s Day shooting

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 10:30am

OGDEN — When nine parishioners attended Mass on Monday night in the same church where a man had been shot during service the day before, they received a message of healing.

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Karen Evans, center, comforts her mother Tara Evans while Father Eric Richtsteig looks on at McKay-Dee Hospital Center in Ogden on Monday, June, 17, 2013. Tara's husband, James Evans, was shot in the head the day before at St. James Catholic Church. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Man shot during mass at Ogden church expected to survive

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 10:45am

OGDEN — Because James Evans turned his head at just the right moment, the bullet came out through his cheek instead of entering his brain, his wife said.

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Crime scene investigators examiner the parking lot outside of St. James Catholic Church in Ogden where a man was shot in the back of the head during the 11:30 Sunday Mass on June 16, 2013. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Police arrest suspect in Ogden church shooting

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 1:13am

OGDEN -- Police have arrested a man accused of walking into a Catholic church and shooting a man in the back of the head during Mass on Sunday in Ogden.

Investigators say 35-year-old Charles Richard Jennings Jr. was captured Sunday afternoon in nearby Box Elder County after fleeing in a stolen pickup truck.

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Witnesses describe shooting, chaos in Ogden church

Jamie Lampros, Standard-Examiner correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, June 17, 2013 - 10:42am

OGDEN - Everything was calm and peaceful at St. James Catholic Church on Sunday afternoon before a man walked in and shot his father-in-law in the back of the head.

Witnesses said they had just started to say a prayer when a man and woman walked into the church holding hands.

The victim and his wife “were sitting in the back pew off to the right side when their daughter and her husband walked in holding hands,” said Leon Bedford. “He walked up to (the man) and leaned over and pointed his gun at him criminal style and pulled the trigger.”

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