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BYU Bookstore lays off 29 employees

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 4:15pm

PROVO -- Citing business losses, the BYU Bookstore at Brigham Young University is laying off 29 employees.

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A 90 percent off everything sign hangs at The Bookshelf during the store’s going-out-of-business sale on Washington Boulevard in Ogden on Tuesday.

The Bookshelf closing after 40-plus years in business

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 10:31pm

OGDEN -- For the last and final time, The Bookshelf, a used-book store that has gone through three sets of owners in its 40-plus years, is shutting down.

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Public memorial set for slain Utah bookseller

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 11:26am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The family of a slain South Salt Lake bookseller will mark the one-year anniversary of her death with a graveside memorial service.

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Family of slain SLC bookshop owner seeks public's help

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 28, 2011 - 9:31am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Nearly a year after her death, the family of a slain South Salt Lake bookstore owner is again asking for the public's help in finding her killer.

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Layton Deseret Book on the move

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 15, 2011 - 7:27pm

LAYTON -- One of Layton Hills Mall's most popular stores will soon be packing up and moving across town.

Michael Christensen, a partner at the Thackeray Company, said Deseret Book will move to the shopping center on the southeast corner of Main Street and Hill Field Road.

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In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, a box of satirical breath mints poking fun at President Obama is seen at the office of University of Tennessee Vice Chancellor of Communication Margie Nichols in Knoxville, Tenn. The mints were pulled from the shelves at the University of Tennessee bookstore after local legislator Joe Armstrong told store officials he was offended by the mints. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, Saul Young)

Mints poking fun at Obama pulled from university bookstore

Megan Boehnke The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 2:46pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Breath mints are usually refreshing, but a Knoxville legislator believes a University of Tennessee bookstore's selling of novelty candies mocking President Barack Obama stinks.

UT officials pulled the mints poking fun at Obama from store shelves after state Rep. Joe Armstrong, a Democrat, visited the bookstore and told the director he found the satirical mints offensive.

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