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(Associated Press file photo) The World Trade Center towers burn and one starts to fall on September 11, 2001.

Impacts of 9/11 far-reaching -- and local

Last updated Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 12:35am

OGDEN -- All Utahns go through intense security at the airport because of the terrorist attacks 10 years ago Sunday, but how many know:

Why one museum's volunteers had to have background checks before they could show visitors the displays?

Why there are so many Saudi students in Utah and so few Iranians?

Why the books you check out at the library could still get you in trouble?

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Give us a break ... who else has a crime-fighting blimp but Ogden?

Mark Saal Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 7:50am

"Crime Fighting Blimp."

It's either the coolest band name this side of "Wolf Blitzer and the Vowel Movements," or the most righteous law-enforcement tool since the invention of the rubber bullet.

Earlier this year, the Ogden Police Department became the envy of 19th-century constabularies everywhere when officials announced they'd be enlisting a blimp to patrol the skies above the city. Plans call for a 50-odd-foot unmanned airship, equipped with surveillance cameras, navigational equipment and a payload of advanced weaponry capable of raining down terror on inner-city criminals.

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Ogden blimp may be patrolling by Christmas

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 10:26am

OGDEN -- The city's planned crime-fighting blimp could begin patrolling Ogden's airspace in time for Christmas, the police chief says.

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(Los Angeles Times) Workers secure a Goodyear blimp as it makes a landing in California.

Goodyear to replace blimps with newer, faster zeppelins

W.J. Hennigan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 6:19pm

LOS ANGELES -- The 33-acre grassy airfield in Carson, Calif., doesn't appear much bigger than a postage stamp when pilot Jon Conrad begins steering the 12,840-pound Goodyear blimp in for a landing.

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