Ethics

OGDEN -- A team of Weber State students has taken top regional honors in a "bowl game" of a different sort.

The WSU team won the 11th annual Wasatch Regional Ethics Bowl Competition and will advance to the national championship March 1 in Cincinnati.

OGDEN -- Do Mitt Romney's fellow presidential candidates have the right to challenge the nature of his religious faith? And should children enrolled in public schools be asked to pledge their allegiance to "one nation, under God"?

Diverse opinions flowed at Weber State University's Taboo Talks, this month focused on America's uneasy mixing of religion and politics.

SYRACUSE -- After running a stop sign in a Syracuse neighborhood, City Councilman Matt Kimmel got a stern warning from a city resident who witnessed the offense.

But it was how Kimmel implied he was a Syracuse city employee and challenged the authority of the witness that resulted in the 34-year-old councilman receiving a $93.10 fine for failing to yield for a stop sign.

LONDON  — Several companies are hastily pulling ads from the British tabloid News of the World amid public disgust at allegations its employees hacked into the cell phones of missing schoolgirls and victims' families in London's 2005 transit attacks.

LAS VEGAS -- Embattled Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada announced Thursday that he will resign amid an ongoing ethics investigation, a move that could spare him from the continued embarrassment of the closely watched probe.

Ensign insisted he's done nothing wrong, but said he could no longer expose his family and constituents to the intense focus on his extramarital affair with a former staffer and the ethical allegations clouding that relationship.

"For my family and me, this continued personal cost is simply too great," he said in a statement.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A leaked manuscript by one of Sarah Palin’s closest aides from her time as governor charges that Palin broke state election law in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and was consumed by petty grievances up until she resigned.

OGDEN -- Gov. Gary Herbert on Wednesday called for a full and thorough audit of the Utah Department of Transportation, and government officials in the Top of Utah are on board with the decision.