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NORTH OGDEN -- Officer Michael Rounkles on Thursday used his good hand, the right one, to give high and low fives to dozens of students at North Ogden Elementary School.

"It's been overwhelming," Rounkles said of the support he has felt from his community. "I have a lot to be thankful for."

Rounkles, 29, was one of six police officers shot during a Jan. 4 drug raid at an Ogden home. Officer Jared Francom suffered fatal wounds, and Rounkles and four other officers were wounded.

SNOWBASIN -- Freeskier extraordinaire and Utah resident Tom Wallisch is looking at an iPad, reading aloud a series of numbers in rapid succession.

OGDEN -- If faces on the streets of downtown Ogden seem a little more tragic or comedic this week, blame it on the temporary influx of theater people.

SMITHFIELD -- As expected, the Bees and Mustangs battled for Region 5 wrestling supremacy.

And as expected, it was a nail-biter.

And perhaps as expected, the Box Elder squad had just enough extra in the tank to rise to the top followed two days of wrestling at Sky View High School.

OGDEN -- Normally, a serious audience will get annoyed when children laugh and play during a moment of silence.

But on Thursday afternoon, such noise seemed appropriate during an event to honor two young lives that were cut short.

The Pinwheel Vigil for the Powell Boys drew several hundred participants to a ceremony next to a playground in Ogden Municipal Gardens. People of all ages held blue-and-silver pinwheels as a reminder that a child's life should be full of innocence.

AUSTIN, Texas -- As far as Lance Armstrong is concerned, it's all over.

The stress, the waiting, the whispers about whether he doped during his stellar cycling career, all of it ended when -- after nearly two years -- federal prosecutors closed an investigation of him last week without bringing any charges.