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Conservative group gives Rep. Oda a high score

Last updated Monday, April 9, 2012 - 9:50pm

OGDEN -- A Utah-based conservative group, committed to promoting the principles of limited government and protecting individual rights, has given a Clearfield lawmaker high marks for his work during the 2012 legislative session.

Rep. Curt Oda, R-Clearfield, received a score of 96 percent from Utah GrassRoots, a group that has been grading lawmakers annually since 1992.

The score places Oda third overall in the Utah State Legislature, behind two Utah County Republican representatives who each received "rare" perfect 100 scores.

"It's absolutely good news.

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Utah health officials to release state cancer data

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 8:48am

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials are set to release its first statewide cancer data report along with a comprehensive plan to reduce cancer morbidity and increase prevention efforts.

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Report released on Morgan murder-suicide

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 7:19am

PORTERVILLE — The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office believes they have identified the shooter in the murder-suicide of a Porterville couple.

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(GERALD HERBERT/The Associated Press) In this April 21, 2010 file photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana’s tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. A BP scientist identified a previously unreported deposit of flammable gas that could have played a role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but the oil giant failed to divulge the finding to government investigators for as long as a year, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

US gov’t prepares to release BP oil spill report

Dina Cappiello, Harry R. Weber The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 7:44am

A key federal report into what caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history was being readied for release as early as Wednesday amid revelations that BP made critical mistakes on the well and failed to tell its partners and the U.S. government when it realized it.

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Utah's economic growth still strongest in the West

Press release Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, July 1, 2011 - 1:28pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's economic growth pace continues to be the strongest in the western Continental U.S., although current growth pales when compared to stronger economic growth during 2004-2007, according to the Summer 2011 issue of Zions Bank's Insight--Economic News of Utah and the Nation released today.

"Utah's job creation pace is likely to maintain course over the balance of 2011.

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Fatal car crashes involving teen drivers drop

Mike Stobbe, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 2:26pm

ATLANTA — Fatal car crashes involving teen drivers fell by about a third over five years, according to a new federal report that partly credits the drop to tougher state limits on younger drivers.

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