Davis County

William “Bill” J. Adkins, 41, of Layton, passed away Friday, June 14, 2013. He was born November 13, 1971 to Bill and Katherine Adkins in Anaheim, CA. He married Rebecca Lea Oien on April 22, 1995.

Bill loved hunting, fishing, shooting and riding his motorcycle.

He is survived by his wife Rebecca, sons Brandon and Bradley, daughter Brooke, his mother Katherine and his sister Patricia Wolfe. He was preceded in death by his grandparents and his father.

Helen Marie Loesch, born March 19, 1922 on Staten Island, New York to George Loesch and Josephine Olsen passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home in Farmington, UT on June 13, 2013 at the age of 91. Helen, while in Jr. High School and High School had home bound teachers because of severe asthma. Following her graduation from High School she studied to be a radiology technician going to night school in Manhattan. After graduating from her training course she worked at Seaview Hospital on Staten Island taking x-rays of TB patients which was a TB sanitarium. With her history of asthma and lung problems her father George was surprised she would go work in a TB hospital but Helen persevered and honed her skills as a Radiologic Technician. Helen then worked at St. Vincent’s Hospital which closed and the she went to a government hospital in Albany, New York she then came back and worked at a hospital in East Orange, New Jersey to be near her nephews, David and Skipper. A friend that she had met in a previous employment offered her a job at the US Public Health Hospital in Staten Island; she was able to obtain her Radiologic Technician Certification and was placed in charge of the Radiology Tech School at the Public Health Hospital where she worked until she retired.

FARMINGTON — An unexpected $67,000 boost in Davis County’s Community Development Block Grant funding for the 2013-14 fiscal year will be shared among service agencies.

The county commission received word of the federal windfall on Tuesday.

Harry Houdini would be proud.

A 35-year-old man handcuffed and left in the back of a police cruiser Saturday somehow managed to slip his cuffs, squeeze through a small opening in a partition and disappear by stealing the car — leading officers on a chase by vehicle and foot that resulted in his capture hours later.

Each year, as weather in the Top of Utah warms and the last snow melts, hikers begin leaving the state’s urban areas to trek into the outdoors.

Unfortunately, some of these hikers will become injured, overestimate their hiking ability or embark into the wilderness ill prepared — keeping search and rescue teams hard at work, said Weber County Sheriff’s Sgt. Brandon Toll.

With 67 hiker-related search and rescue callouts from 2004 to 2013 — making up approximately 75 percent of all rescue operations in that time — incidents involving hikers are not uncommon in Weber County.

HEBER CITY — Meggen Hodson pulled off a double-double at the Utah High School Rodeo Association State Finals.