Fatality

GARLAND -- Wearing their best dress clothes as a symbol of respect, a half-dozen solemn ninth-graders gathered Tuesday in a small office at Bear River Middle School to grieve the death of a former classmate.

Fourteen-year-old Robby Ostberg died Monday morning after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a miniature cannon at his home in the 400 block of Tremont Street in Tremonton.

Ostberg hadn't attended Bear River Middle School for 10 months, but the students who gathered around a table outside a guidance counselor's office said their fond recollections of him remain fresh.

OGDEN -- One person died and another was seriously injured in an accident Saturday afternoon.

OGDEN -- Firefighters are lining both sides of Washington Boulevard, south of 25th Street, to honor Ogden police officer Jared Francom, whose funeral procession will pass along that route.

Two Ogden Fire Department ladder trucks have used their ladders to form an arch over the street, with an American flag hanging from the ladders.

Bob Ramos, 87, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, was one of the first people along Washington Boulevard. He became emotional talking about the officers.

"Its like a GI going to the front," he said of the police officers' work. "You don't know if you're going to come back."

BEIJING — A school bus taking primary students home slipped off a country road into an irrigation ditch in eastern China, killing 15 children and highlighting continuing safety problems in the country’s school transport system following a similar tragedy last month.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Highway Patrol says there were no fatal accidents on state roadways over the Thanksgiving weekend despite the travel rush.

KAYSVILLE -- A Brigham City teen was killed late Friday night after her vehicle spun out of control on a slick Interstate 15.