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Small plane crashes in Utah while taxiing; 1 hurt

Last updated Monday, April 23, 2012 - 9:35am

DELLE -- An 83-year-old pilot is injured after crashing his small plane over the weekend while taxiing on a Tooele County air strip.

The single-engine Cessna hit a large pile of gravel and tipped forward, crashing nose-first into the ground about 10:30 a.m. Sunda

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Utah wildlife biologist sues U.S. Army for toxic exposure

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 1:23pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah wildlife biologist waited 10 years for doctors to suggest her neurological disorders may have been caused by fieldwork she did outside a U.S. Army depot that tested chemical and biological weapons.

Now, Carolyn Bayless is waiting for a judge to decide if she can sue the Army for supposedly causing her disability.

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More than vehicles, oil refineries pollute Utah's air; new website offers info

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 7:45pm

Utahns can now learn what — other than cars — causes the winter pollution that so concerns the Division of Air Quality.

Snowblowers, domestic animals, farm machinery, graphic art chemicals and deep-frying equipment also add to the pollutants in the air, according to a DAQ report released Monday.

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Allen L. Tracey

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 11:17pm

Allen L. Tracey, died on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Tate Mortuary, Tooele, UT; luncheon at the Tooele Moose Lodge to follow graveside services. The family will receive visitors from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday Feb. 17. and 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 from at Tate Mortuary. Interment will be in the Tooele City Cemetery. Read the full obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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File-In this Jan.18,2012 file photo showing a view of the Deseret Chemical Depot outside Stockton, Utah. The elimination of Utah's chemical weapons stockpile last weekend means the loss of millions of dollars in federal funding to the state that for more than two decades helped pay for sophisticated emergency command centers, equipment and training for first responders. The Deseret Chemical Depot finished incineration and decontamination on Saturday Jan. 21,2012. (AP Photo/George Frey,File)

End of munitions destruction in Utah means loss of 1,400 jobs, federal money

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 6:09pm

TOOELE -- Utah's massive chemical weapons stockpile is gone and along with it federal funding that helped pay for sophisticated emergency response centers.

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Aerial view of Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF).
The plant covers 27 acres and is approximately 12 miles south of the town of Tooele.

Army burns off final chemical weapons in Utah

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 12:58pm

STOCKTON — The U.S. Army will have destroyed about 90 percent of its aging chemical weapons after it wraps up work this week in Utah, where it has kept its largest stockpile — a witches’ brew of toxins, blister and blood agents that accumulated through the Cold War, officials said Wednesday.

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Coyote hunting just breeds more coyotes

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 10:05am

VERNON -- Bill Keebler knows coyotes. He can follow their tracks, even in deer trails, and he knows their scat and wily ways.

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Big part of nuclear reactor heads to Utah landfill

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 8:27am

SALT LAKE CITY — A huge piece of a dismantled nuclear reactor is headed toward a Tooele County landfill where it will be buried.

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Wayne Ross Shields

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:17pm

Wayne Ross Shields, 85, died Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, at the Stansbury Park LDS Stake Center, 417 E. Benson Road, Stansbury Park. Friends may call at the church from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. before the services. Interment, Centerville Cemetery. Post condolences and share your memories of “Mr. Shields” at www.myers-mortuary.com. For complete obituay, log on to Standard-Examiner'e ePaper.

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Utah to lose 1,300 jobs when munitions sites close

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 5, 2011 - 8:04am

TOOELE -- Officials say about 1,300 Utah jobs are being phased out with the planned closing of two U.S. Army facilities responsible for storing and incinerating the nation's largest stockpile of chemical weapons over the past 15 years.

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Driver: Man ran toward semi-truck in I-80 fatal

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Last updated Friday, July 29, 2011 - 2:25pm

TOOELE -- A semi-truck driver who hit a pedestrian on Interstate 80 says the man ran toward the crude oil hauler in the final moments of his life.

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Man walking on I-80 near Tooele struck, killed

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 29, 2011 - 8:48am

TOOELE -- Utah Highway Patrol says a man was hit and killed after walking into the path of a semi-truck on Interstate 80 in Tooele County.

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It's all about the numbers; Bishop hoping to keep Davis whole in state redistricting

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 11:30pm

No one knows for certain what Congressman Rob Bishop's district will look like in 2012, but everyone is certain it won't look like it does now.

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No immediate ID of body found in Utah desert

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 16, 2011 - 11:13pm

STOCKTON — A state medical examiner is analyzing humans remains found in the desert near Stockton.

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Repeat winners rule at Miller Motorsports Park

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Monday, May 2, 2011 - 3:38pm

TOOELE VALLEY -- It was a day for repeat winners at Miller Motorsports Park Sunday as the Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix came to a close.

Tony Ave dominated the competition in today's SCCA Pro Racing Trans-Am Series race, starting from the pole in the No. 4 Lamers Racing Chevrolet Corvette and putting on a driving clinic, leading all but the first of 33 laps.

On the first lap heading into Turn One, rookie Carlos de Quesada slid his No. 22 Alegra Motorsports Jaguar XJR past Ave to take the early lead. De Quesada led the first lap before Ave regained the point on the next lap. Once Ave took the lead, he never looked back, winning by 16.957 seconds over Doug Harrington and capturing his first Trans-Am Series win of the season.

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