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Men face felony charges for trail booby traps

Last updated Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 8:01am

SALT LAKE CITY — Two Utah men accused of setting potentially lethal booby traps along a popular hiking trail have been charged with felony aggravated assault.

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Parrish Lane trail head closed for now

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 11:25pm

CENTERVILLE — The Parrish Lane trail head on the Legacy Parkway Trail will be closed nightly for the next two weeks.

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This photo released on April 23, 2012 by the Utah County Sheriff's Department shows one of the booby traps taken from a crude shelter made of dead tree limbs found in a Provo Canyon. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of setting the traps and were booked Saturday into the county jail for investigation of misdemeanor reckless endangerment. (AP Photo/Utah County Sheriff Department)

Ruthlessness of Utah booby traps stunned authorities

John M. Gilonna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 11:39am

PROVO -- In a case that stunned authorities with its ruthlessness, two Utah men have been arrested in connection with a pair of deadly booby traps along a popular hiking trail outside Provo.

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Hiking trail booby traps were found by military expert

Brian Skoloff, Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 2:47pm

PROVO — U.S. Forest Service Officer James Schoeffler is trained to spot the suspicious.

He spent 12 years in the military as a bomb disposal technician dismantling deadly devices in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.

But he never expected to find the two crudely designed and potentially deadly booby traps he said he spotted last week off a popular Utah hiking trail.

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This photo released on Monday April 23, 2012 by the Utah County Sheriff's Department shows a crude shelter made of dead tree limbs housing booby traps found in a Provo Canyon, Utah. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of setting the traps and were booked Saturday into the county jail for investigation of misdemeanor reckless endangerment. (AP Photo/Utah County Sheriff Department)

Men accused of setting booby traps near Utah trail

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 23, 2012 - 4:31pm

PROVO — A deadly booby trap rigged along a popular Utah trail could have killed someone if they had tripped a ground wire set up to send a 20-pound, spiked boulder swinging into an unsuspecting hiker, authorities said Monday.

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Farmington trail system grows in size, popularity among residents

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 10:44pm

FARMINGTON — Enthusiasm for and the usage of the city’s expanding trail system continues to grow, the head of the city’s trails committee says.

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A man runs along Buchanan Avenue between 27th and 29th streets in Ogden recently. A resident of the area allows people to use his property to reach various popular mountain trails and worries that the city’s recent vacation of a strip of land along Buchanan so a homeowner can expand his garage will prevent additional parking along the road later. He says the parking lot for the trailhead (seen in background) overflows on weekends and weekday evenings when the weather is nice and that the vacation may restrict parking options in the future. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

City vacates land for home expansion, but move causes concern

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 12:27am

OGDEN -- The city's vacating of a portion of Buchanan Avenue has a nearby landowner worried about parking at a popular nearby trailhead.

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Police and Los Angeles County coroner's investigators arrived Wednesday morning to search for body parts and clues near the trail in Bronson Canyon, a section of Griffith Park near the Hollywood sign.

Human head found next to hiking trail

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Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 11:37am

LOS ANGELES -- Investigators planned to search the brush Wednesday near a popular Hollywood hiking trail where a human head in a plastic bag was found by dog walkers.

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