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Alta Jackson Spencer

Alta Jackson Spencer died Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at the North Ogden LDS 24th Ward, 1150 E. 2600 North, in North Ogden, Utah, with a viewing before services at 10 a.m. A viewing for friends and family will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at Larkin & Sons Mortuary, 496 24th St., in Ogden. Interment will follow services at the Eden Cemetery. Post condolences to the family at viewobit.com/larkinmortuary and ObitsUtah.com. To read the full obituary, see the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Five to compete next weekend for Miss Wilderness Circuit title

OGDEN -- The public is invited to participate in the Wilderness Circuit Rodeo Queen competition Saturday.

Emergency personnel are seen by a World War II-era B-17 bomber after it burned following an emergency landing in a farm field in Oswego, Ill.,. Monday, June 13, 2011. The vintage plane had taken off from nearby Aurora Municipal Airport.The Federal Aviation Administration believes the seven people on board the plane escaped uninjured. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Rick West)

WWII bomber crashes in Illinois

AURORA, Ill. -- A World War II "Flying Fortress" bomber crashed and burned in a cornfield southeast of Aurora Municipal Airport Monday, but the seven people on board escaped without serious injury, officials say.

The B-17 took off from the airport at 9:30 a.m. CDT and went down about three or four miles from Aurora about 20 minutes later, according to Elizabeth Isham Cory, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. "We believe the seven people on board escaped without injury."

The pilot made an emergency landing in a cornfield in Oswego after reporting an engine fire, according to Sugar Grove Fire Chief Marty Kunkle. Witnesses said he set the plane down between a tower and a line of trees.

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