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New correspondent brings years of experience to Morgan County

Last updated Friday, October 26, 2012 - 8:45pm

Kristen Hebestreet knows some things — like farms, rural communities and the people who live there. That’s one reason she’s excited about being our new correspondent covering Morgan County.

Kristen is an Ogden native and an experienced newspaper journalist. She has three bachelor’s degrees — anthropology and communications from the University of Utah and English from Weber State University. Plus, she said she’s “one test short” of a master’s in English.

She also has 17 years of experience as a reporter, most of it in the Appalachia area of the southeast, working at newspapers in Bristol, Va., and in Kingsport and Johnson City, Tenn.

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FILE - In this May 2, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Chantilly, Va. After all their liberal vs. conservative differences are spoken, Romney and President Barack Obama sound a lot alike when they are being described by the other guy or his campaign. That leaves voters the challenge of having to sort out what's real and what's been stretched out of proportion. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Endorsements of Mitt Romney remain tepid

Maeve Reston, Seema Metha Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, May 7, 2012 - 9:39am

PITTSBURGH -- Rick Santorum dropped his presidential campaign nearly a month ago, so his meeting here Friday with presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney would have seemed like the perfect opportunity to offer Romney his endorsement.

But even before the 90-minute meeting took place, everyone knew that would not happen anytime soon. Santorum, like pretty much everyone else who has run in the Republican presidential contest, has embraced the party's standard-bearer with a stiff arm. They will work to defeat President Barack Obama, they say. Yet few have been willing to get behind their party's winner with anything approaching enthusiasm.

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