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I-15 shut down after gas tanker explodes

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Last updated Monday, January 14, 2013 - 6:36am

SCIPIO -- A semi trailer carrying gasoline exploded in flames Sunday night on Interstate 15 near Scipio.

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Eric Charlton, of West Haven, is comforted by defense lawyer Susanne Gustin as he sobs during his preliminary trial before 4th District Judge James Brady in Nephi on Wednesday. Charlton is charged in the accidental shooting death of his brother Cameron Charlton, 17, of Hooper, on May 28 while camping with family and friends at Yuba Lake State Park in Juab County.
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West Haven man at preliminary hearing in accidential shooting death

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Last updated Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 12:12pm

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Officials take down $5M marijuana farm in Juab

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Last updated Friday, August 3, 2012 - 10:13am

NEPHI — Officials in Juab County say they’ve put a stop to a farm growing enough marijuana to make about $5 million on the street.

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911 tape released of shooting that killed Hooper teen

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 11:06pm

OGDEN — Callers pleaded with emergency dispatchers to quickly send rescue personnel to a campground near the Yuba Reservoir where Cameron Bryce Charlton, 17, of Hooper, was fatally shot early Monday morning, according to a 911 recording released by the Juab County Sheriff’s Office.

The Standard-Examiner obtained the recording, which lasts a little more than five minutes, through a state public records request.

The recording contains calls from three people, including an individual working for the Oasis campground, where the shooting was reported shortly before 3:30 a.m. Monday.

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Brother: Fatal shooting was an accident

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 9:21am

HOOPER — A man accused in the shooting death of his brother during a camping trip near the Yuba Reservoir told police the incident was an accident, according to a probable cause statement.

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Garrett Gooch, 18 and from Hooper, writes a note to the family of Cameron Charlton, whose picture is on the poster. Police say Charlton, a Fremont High student, was shot over the weekend and have arrested his brother, a U.S. Marine, on suspicion of manslaughter. (NANCY VAN VALKENBURG/Standard-Examiner)

Friends remember shot teen as one who could elicit laughs

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 10:53am

WEST HAVEN — Word of Cameron Bryce Charlton’s death spread quickly on Facebook, and friends from the Hooper teen’s neighborhood and Fremont High School gathered Monday night to remember.

“It was just so hard to believe,” said Paige Beus, 17, who hosted the gathering of friends and classmates.

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Brother arrested in fatal shooting of Hooper teen

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, May 28, 2012 - 11:13pm

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A Hooper teen was shot and killed early Monday while on a group camping trip near the Yuba Reservoir.

The boy’s brother is in custody and has been arrested on charges of manslaughter.

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Fatal ATV accident under investigation

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 9:32pm

JERICHO — An investigation is under way into an ATV accident in Juab County that killed a teenage boy from the Salt Lake City area.

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George Richard Parkin

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 3:32pm

George Richard Parkin died. The funeral will be noon Saturday, March 24, 2012, at the Nephi 1,2,8 LDS wards chapel, 222 E 100 South. Nephi. Family and friends may call at the church one hour prior to the services. Interment will be in the Nephi Vine Bluff Cemetery. To read complete obituary, see Standard-Examiner e-edition.

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Family sues Juab County over mosquito spraying

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Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 10:42am

NEPHI -- A Nephi family is suing Juab County and some of its employees, saying the county's anti-mosquito spraying is trespassing and the pesticides pose a health risk.

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