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Suspect escapes Wendover police car by climbing out window

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 8:53am

WEST WENDOVER, Nev. — A Salt Lake City man who briefly escaped from Nevada police by climbing through a patrol car window is behind bars in West Wendover on a series of drug and escape charges.

Police started pursuing 24-year-old John A. Ramirez-Juarez Monday morning after he ran a stop sign on Wendover Boulevard.

He eventually pulled into a casino parking lot, was handcuffed and placed in the police car.

However, police say he took advantage of an unlocked window and climbed through back onto the street before officers apprehended him again.

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Christmas tree fire displaces 2 Wendover families

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 24, 2012 - 8:58am

WENDOVER — A Christmas tree fire has left two Wendover families without a place to live.

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SLC man killed in rollover near Wendover

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 6:03am

WENDOVER — The Utah Highway Patrol has identified a Salt Lake City man who died in a rollover crash not far from the Nevada border.

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View of the border between Utah and Nevada (Wendover, Utah/West Wendover, Nevada)

W. Jordan woman killed in I-80 rollover

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 10:12am

WENDOVER — Utah officials have identified a 21-year-old West Jordan woman who died in a rollover on Interstate 80 near the Nevada border.

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UHP trooper aids in birth of twins along I-80

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 4:37pm

WENDOVER — A Utah High Patrol sergeant has helped a woman deliver fraternal twins in a remote section along Interstate 80 near the Nevada border.

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Crews restore WWII-era control tower in Wendover

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, June 2, 2012 - 8:33am

WENDOVER -- Volunteers have reached another milestone in restoring the Historic Wendover Airfield back to its World War II-era glory.

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Wendover teen gets life in prison for classmate's killing

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 16, 2012 - 2:10pm

ELKO, Nev. — One of two West Wendover High School students accused of killing a classmate and burying her in the desert near the Utah-Nevada border has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

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Box Elder search for man called off

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 11:37pm

BRIGHAM CITY — A search was called off Sunday for a man believed to have spent some time here.

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3 from Utah identified in Wendover plane crash

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 3:56pm

WENDOVER -- Authorities have identified three Utah residents killed in a small plane crash during gusty winds at an airport on the Utah-Nevada border.

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First responders look over the wreckage of an airplane crash with four confirmed dead in West Wendover, Utah, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred)

4 people dead in small plane crash in Wendover

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 10:16am

WENDOVER — Authorities say four people are dead after a small plane crash at Wendover Airport in northwest Utah along the Nevada border.

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Korean War-era aircraft reported missing in Nevada

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 12:25pm

WENDOVER -- Authorities are searching in snowy weather for a 1952 Korean War-era airplane that disappeared after taking off for Idaho Falls, Idaho, from Wendover on the Nevada-Utah state line.

Elko County sheriff's Cpl. Jim Carpenter tells the Elko Daily Free Press the single-engine converted military aircraft was reported missing about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday southeast of the Nevada-Idaho border town of Jackpot.

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Classmate arrested in death of popular West Wendover girl

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 7, 2011 - 12:35pm

ELKO, Nev. -- Authorities in eastern Nevada say the suspect they've arrested in the death of a 16-year-old girl is a senior at West Wendover High School and a former classmate of the victim.

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Cause of buried Wendover girl's death investigated

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 7, 2011 - 10:52am

WENDOVER -- A sheriff's investigator says a medical examiner will determine the cause of death of a teenage Nevada girl whose body was found in a shallow grave in a remote desert area near the Utah border.

Elko County sheriff's detective Cpl. Jim Carpenter tells the Elko Daily Free Press the body identified as 16-year-old Micaela "Mickey" Costanzo will be examined Monday by the Washoe County medical examiner.

West Wendover police and Elko County sheriff's deputies are investigating after the body was found Saturday about five miles west of West Wendover.

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Police seeking missing girl find possible grave

The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 11:46am

WENDOVER -- Police say the search for a missing West Wendover girl has been suspended after discovery of what appears to be a shallow grave.

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(Utah Highway Patrol Photo)
In this Nov. 5 photo, a Toyota Camry is shown after it crashed as it exited Interstate 80 in Wendover. Two people died and two others were injured in the crash.

Faulty gas pedal blamed in Toyota wreck

Brock Vergakis, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 15, 2010 - 11:54pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Troopers announced Monday that they were blaming the deadly crash of a Toyota Camry in western Utah on a sticky gas pedal, the same problem that led the world's largest automaker to recall the car for repairs early this year.

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