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In a photo taken with a tilt-shift lens, jockey Mike Smith riding Bodemeister leads the field around the first turn in the 138th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 5, 2012, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)was no apparent link to the storied annual race.

Police probe Churchill Downs death as homicide

Last updated Monday, May 7, 2012 - 9:43am

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Police suspect homicide in the death of a racetrack worker whose body was discovered just yards from the barn of this year's Kentucky Derby winner, although investigators said there was no apparent link to the storied annual race.

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(Courtesy photo) Police stand around accused police shooter Matthew David Stewart laying on the street after carrying him out of his house in the frame grab from a Riverdale Police car dashboard camera.

Video shows police removing Stewart from crime scene

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 9:13am

OGDEN — Policemen dragging wounded shooting suspect Matthew Stewart into the street is among the stark images on dash-cam video released Tuesday of a fatal Jan. 4 drug raid.

The Standard-Examiner obtained videos from the Riverdale and South Ogden police departments through a public records request.

In addition, the newspaper received seven Ogden police dash-cam videos Monday that record the chaotic scene following a raid by the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force at Stewart’s home at 3268 Jackson Ave.

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(Courtesy) A video frame grab from a police car dash camera during the Matthew Stewart police shooting in Ogden.

Video shows chaotic scene at fatal raid, shooting

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, April 13, 2012 - 7:15pm

Click here to see video of officer Michael Rounkles being transported to the hospital

OGDEN — The scene unfolds in stark black and white, with a police car barreling through ghostly streets in east-central Ogden en route to six officers shot during a Jan. 4 drug raid.

Exclusive dash-cam video obtained Monday by the Standard-Examiner through a state public records request shows the chaotic scene Ogden law officers encountered when they arrived at 8:42 p.m. outside the home of Matthew David Stewart, 3268 Jackson Ave.

Stewart, who was wounded in the shootout, is accused of killing Ogden police officer Jared Francom and injuring five others during the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force knock-and-announce raid.

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Stewart's newest lawyer files another motion against seizure

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 7:13am

OGDEN — Matthew David Stewart’s newest lawyer has filed another motion challenging the prosecution’s seizure of the home of the police shooting suspect.

Emily Swenson’s first motion, filed last week, rankled both the prosecution and one of Stewart’s public defenders. Prosecutors said it was the latest bid by Stewart’s defense team to depict the prosecution as skirting the law.

Public defender Ryan Bushell described Swenson’s motions as frustrating and muddying the public’s understanding.

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Morgan had busy 2011 for crime

Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 9:09pm

MORGAN -- The year 2011 was a busy one for the small Morgan County Sheriff's Department with its one investigator and the lone county attorney.

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Man arrested in Riverton girl's death faces new charges

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 2:45pm

WEST JORDAN -- One of the men arrested in the death of a 15-year-old Riverton girl faces new charges for a separate incident shortly after the homicide.

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Nathan Sloop appears in 2nd District Judge Glen Dawson's courtroom in Farmington with his attorney, Richard Mauro, on Tuesday. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Nathan Sloop waives preliminary hearing

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 10:42pm

FARMINGTON — A judge set a felony arraignment hearing for the man charged with the murder of 4-year-old Ethan Stacy.

Nathan Sloop, 33, carrying a large, clear, plastic bag filled with legal documents, appeared Tuesday before Judge Glen Dawson, who set May 22 for the hearing. At that time, Sloop is expected to enter either a plea of not guilty or guilty to the charges stemming from the boy’s death on May 9, 2010.

Sloop, and his wife, Stephanie Sloop, 29, both of Layton, are each charged with aggravated murder, second-degree felony child abuse, second-degree felony obstruction of justice and third-degree felony abuse or desecration of a body.

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Officials say death of teen along Jordan River not a random attack

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 5:43pm

DRAPER — After the body of a teen girl was found in the Jordan River on Sunday and although there have been assaults on joggers along river trails in other parts of the state, an official says the most recent incident does not seem to be a random attack.

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In a Sunday, March 11, 2012 photo, police investigate a body found in the Jordan River off of the Jordan River Parkway on 12300 south in Draper, Utah. Draper police say they're investigating the discovery of a girl's body in the Jordan River as a homicide. (AP Photo/Salt Lake Tribune, Kim Raff)

Girl's body found in Jordan River, blood nearby

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 6:31am

DRAPER — Police on Monday identified a teen whose body was found in the Jordan River and said her death is being investigated as a suspicious.

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Trial set in double homicide case in Roy

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 8:50pm

OGDEN -- Trial has finally been set for Jeremy Valdes, who is facing the death penalty in Roy's 2009 double homicide.

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Bountiful woman appears in court after fatally stabbing boyfriend

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 6:44pm

FARMINGTON — A public defender said he has advised Shannon Ryan Sander not to discuss her murder case with anyone but her appointed attorney.

Sander, 43, of Bountiful, appeared in 2nd District Court for her first court appearance on Friday. Several of her family members were in the courtroom. She is charged with first-degree felony murder in the stabbing death of Michael Richard Dunn, 52, on Tuesday. If convicted, she could be sentenced to serve 15 years to life in the Utah State Prison.

She is being held in the Davis County Jail without bail. Another hearing is set for March 9.

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Munn prepares for hearings over body found in her yard

Loretta Park, Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 8:53pm

OGDEN — Charged with obstruction of justice after a body was found buried in her yard, Sarah Munn is considering hiring one of the state’s best-known defense attorneys.

A status conference Tuesday in Ogden’s 2nd District Court for Munn, 31, was continued to Feb. 28. Her public defender, Martin Gravis, said Tuesday she is considering hiring prominent Salt Lake City lawyer Ron Yengich.

Yengich is already representing Munn on a Davis County charge of harboring an escapee. She was charged last September after telling police she had not seen Daniel Rivera, the father of her three children, since he walked away from a work crew while in the Weber County Jail in August. Police later learned Munn had been with Rivera on Aug. 23, 2011.

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Layton and Roy Police investigate a scene at 3812 West 4550 SouthTuesday, February 7, 2012 in Roy, Utah. Authorities were digging a hole near the house looking for evidence. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Missing man buried in Roy was stabbed to death

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 11:30pm

ROY — A man found buried Thursday in the backyard of a Roy home was stabbed to death, police say.

Roy Police Chief Greg Whinham on Tuesday identified the man as Victor Flores, a 25-year-old California resident who had moved to Utah and was reported missing by his family last May.

A homicide investigation has been launched as a result of the discovery of Flores’ body, Whinham said.

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A Pierce County sheriff's deputy and Graham firefighters work around the smoldering remains of a house near Fredrickson, Wash., on Sunday. A sheriff's spokesman says three bodies were were found in the home. The bodies are believed to be Josh Powell and his two young sons. The explosion occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the two boys to the home for a supervised visit. Josh Powell was a person of interest in the case of his missing wife, of West Valley City, Utah.(PETER HALEY/The News Tribune)

Husband of missing Utah woman suspected of killing himself, 2 sons in explosion

Gene Johnson, Mike Baker The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 12:52pm

GRAHAM, Wash. — Days after a judge ruled against him in a child custody hearing, a father and his two young sons were killed Sunday when police said he appeared to intentionally blow up a house with all three inside — a tragic ending to a bizarre case that began more than two years ago when the man’s wife went mysteriously missing in Utah.

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Police: Explosion kills Josh Powell, 2 boys

Gene Johnson, Mike Barker The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 5:34pm

GRAHAM, Wash. — A powerful house explosion killed the husband of a Utah woman who has been missing for two years, and his two young sons Sunday, moments after the boys arrived for a visit that was supposed to be supervised by a social worker.

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