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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

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.

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Heavy turnout at Republican caucuses in Davis County

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 11:51pm

LAYTON — They came and just kept coming.

Turnout was somewhere between heavy and very heavy Thursday night at a Republican caucus at Northridge High School for northern Davis County Republicans.

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Alyn Paradis recites a portion of the Utah Republican platform during a caucus meeting at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden on Thursday. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Hatch the 'elephant in the room' at GOP caucus in Ogden

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 6:05am

OGDEN — It quickly became clear that Sen. Orrin Hatch was the “elephant in the room” for a group of Ogden neighbors.

At a Republican caucus Thursday night, 34 residents of the 12th precinct came together in a Ben Lomond High School classroom to decide who among them would go to the state and county conventions to represent their views.

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Jon Greiner has filed for a Weber County Commission seat. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Full slate of candidates in Weber County

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 11:26am

OGDEN — Former Ogden police chief and state Sen. Jon Greiner is back in the political arena, filing his candidacy for Weber County Commission Seat C.

Also filing for the seat are fellow Republican Matthew Bell, chairman of the Weber County Republican Party, and Democrat Corey Combe.

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Democratic candidate for governor visits Davis businesses; others seek office

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 11:52pm

LAYTON — Retired Maj. Gen. Peter S. Cooke, Democratic candidate for governor, made a series of whistle-stops Thursday, visiting businesses throughout Davis County.

Cooke’s visits were coordinated around a noon luncheon at the Joy Luck Restaurant in Bountiful. There, Cooke addressed Bountiful city elected leaders, city staff and “regular, everyday Bountiful residents,” said Rob Miller, campaign spokesman.

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Jon Greiner (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Greiner seeks Weber Commission seat

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 11:35pm

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OGDEN — Jon Greiner, former Ogden police chief and state senator, has filed for a seat on the Weber County Commission.

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WSU students elect senators for 2012-13

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 11:04pm

OGDEN — Weber State University students have selected their new student senators for the 2012-13 school year.

Students cast 983 votes last week and elected 21 senators. Five are returning to their posts, and 16 are joining the student government Legislature for the first time.

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Weber County Attorney Dee Smith takes an oath while filing his candidacy for Utah attorney general at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Monday. (ASHLEY FRANSCELL/Special to the Standard-Examiner)

Dee: Attorney general campaign won't hurt current job

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 8:50pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Weber County Attorney Dee Smith made it official Monday, formally filing for the Democratic nomination for attorney general of Utah.

Smith filed his papers at the lieutenant governor’s office in the state Capitol, joined by party officials and the party’s candidate for governor, retired Maj. Gen. Peter Cooke, who also filed.