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Egyptians vote in first free presidential election

Maggie Michael, Sarah El Deeb The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 10:12am

CAIRO -- More than 15 months after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians streamed to polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in generations. Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last minute over their vote in a historic election pitting old regime figures against ascending Islamists.

A sense of amazement at having a choice pervaded the crowds in line, along with fervent expectation over what direction a new leader will take a country that has been in turmoil ever since mass protests toppled the man who ruled with an iron fist for nearly 30 years.

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French presidential candidate Francois Hollande speaks to journalists at Brive airport, after the first round voting, Sunday, April 22, 2012, in Brive, France. Socialist Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy are heading for a runoff election in their race for France's presidency, according to partial official results in a vote that could alter the European political and economic landscape. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Campaign runoff for French president

Greg Keller The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 23, 2012 - 1:36pm

PARIS -- Francois Hollande charged back into campaign mode Monday with momentum on his side to capture France's presidency, after the Socialist won the most votes in the first round of voting that put him into a runnoff with conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.

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Davis Dems field full slate of candidates

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 11:01pm

FARMINGTON — These are unique times for Davis County Democrats.

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U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (center) debates Republican candidates for U.S. Senate Chris Herrod (left), who is now a state representative, and Dan Liljenquist, of Bountiful, earlier this month in Salt Lake City. (Associated Press file photo)

Learn truth of advocacy groups' U.S. Senate race ads

Josh Loftin, Kevin Freking The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 10:57pm

WASHINGTON — Interest groups spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence Utah’s U.S. Senate race are making claims that often skirt the truth.

This week, delegates at the state Republican convention will attempt to wade through the numerous ads and campaign speeches and select a nominee to represent the GOP in November’s general election.

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In this Monday, April 9, 2012 file photo, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Khairat el-Shater talks to reporters during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt. The head of Egypt's elections commission says 10 presidential hopefuls, including ex-spy chief, key Islamists, were disqualified from the race. Farouk Sultan, the head of the Supreme Presidential Election Commission says Saturday ex-spy chief Omar Suleiman, Muslim Brotherhood chief strategist Khairat el-Shater, and a hardline lawyer-turned-preacher Hazem Abu Ismail have been excluded. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

10 Egyptian presidential hopefuls barred from race

Maggie Michael The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 4:22pm

CAIRO — Egypt’s election commission disqualified 10 presidential hopefuls, including Hosni Mubarak’s former spy chief and key Islamists, from running Saturday in a surprise decision that threatened to upend an already tumultuous race and plunge the Arab world’s most populous nation into a new political crisis.

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Surprises highlight Davis County GOP nominating convention

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 7:58am

WOODS CROSS — Any notion that the Republican Party has been in power so long in Davis County that the results of elections are almost scripted, was turned on its ear Friday night in the party’s nominating convention.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, flanked by campaign volunteers Jordan Furr, left, and Sherrie-Kaye Miller, both of Mechanicsburg, Pa., telephones a potential voter from a call center at his Pennsylvania campaign headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, April 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Challenges facing Romney in wooing female voters

Laurie Kellman The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 7, 2012 - 5:08pm

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is starting to hone his appeal to female voters, acutely aware as he turns to the general election that he has little choice but to narrow President Barack Obama’s commanding lead among this critical constituency.

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(M. SPENCER GREEN/The Associated Press) Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney declares victory in the Wisconsin presidential primary at the Grain Exchange, Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Milwaukee.

Romney turns from primaries, toward Obama

Kasie Hunt The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 9:28am

MILWAUKEE — Mitt Romney is turning away from his primary opponents and toward Democratic President Barack Obama after sweeping three more Republican contests.

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Meet congressional candidates tonight in Huntsville

Dave Greiling Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 11:19pm

HUNTSVILLE — A Meet the Candidates Night for Republican 1st Congressional District candidates will be held tonight the Ogden Valley Library, 131 S. 7400 East.

The candidates are incumbent Rob Bishop and challengers Leonard Fabiano and Jacqueline Smith.

Doors open at 7 p.m., and the event begins at 7:30. The Weber County 9/12 Project is hosting the event.

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USU prof will lead council in 2013

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 11:15pm

LOGAN — A Utah State University department head and professor has been chosen as president-elect of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Sean Michael, who heads USU’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning department, was chosen at the 2012 CELA conference held at the University of Illinois. He will become CELA president at the 2013 conference in Austin, Texas.

Utah State will host the group’s 2015 conference.

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Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy supporter is illuminated by car headlights during jubilations through the streets after the party’s announcement outside the party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Supporters of Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers Sunday after her party announced that she had won a parliamentary seat in the landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time.(AP Photo)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi reported winning historic vote

Aye Aye Win, Todd Pitman The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 5:21pm

YANGON, Myanmar — She struggled for a free Myanmar for a quarter-century, much of it spent locked away under house arrest. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose nonviolent campaign for democracy at home transformed her into a global icon is on the verge of ascending to public office for the first time.

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Clark bows out of Davis commission race

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 10:38pm

FARMINGTON — Democratic candidate Platte Evans Clark has withdrawn from the Davis County Commission race.

Clark was challenging Steve Andersen, of Farmington, for the Democratic Party nomination.

Andersen, now unopposed for the party nomination, will face the Republican Party nominee in the Nov. 6 general election.

The Davis Democratic Party convention will be held at 2 p.m. April 14 at Farmington Junior High, 150 S. 200 West.

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People head to their respective meetings Saturday during the Weber County Democratic Convention at the Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College in Ogden. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Democrats turn out to select delegates, hear candidates

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 2:45pm

OGDEN — More than 300 Democrats turned out Saturday to choose their state delegates, listen to candidates’ speeches and get revved up for November.

“We’re going to go out and change this state,” said Jim Dabakis, Utah State Democratic Party chairman.

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(From left) Zaynab Alshakhiss, Weber State University student senator-elect, Nancy Collingwood, director of Student Involvement & Leadership, and Hamad Al Yami, International Student and Scholar Center admissions assistant, pose for a portrait. Alshakhiss has stirred interest in her home country of Saudi Arabia because women there don't usually get to take major leadership roles. She says the media there has been largely supportive of her elected position. (Photo courtesy of Hamad Al Yami)

Saudi woman’s election at WSU stirs interest back home

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 6:10am

OGDEN — When Zaynab Alshakhiss won her bid for the Weber State University student Senate, it didn’t draw much attention in Ogden, but when the news hit in Alshakhiss’ native Saudi Arabia, the media mobilized.

Over spring break, more than a dozen print and online newspapers approached Weber State representatives and Alshakhiss for the story of her groundbreaking win as the international student senator for the 2012-13 year.

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Morgan candidates seek to improve county, education

Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 7:17pm

MORGAN — All three candidates for the Morgan County Council will be unopposed, and none of the incumbents is running for his or her current seat.

But one face won’t be new. Robert Kilmer, who has filled an at-large council seat since 2011, filed for the four-year District 3 seat. He will be replacing Howard Hansen, who has served on the board for four years.