Utah

MORGAN — Debate is making a comeback at Morgan High School.

A vote from the Morgan County School Board three years ago got the ball rolling, allowing Morgan High to form a debate team. It started as an after-school team activity. Last school year, the team boasted 20 students.

For the 2012-2013 year, the after-school club was supplemented with a Debate I and Debate II class that officially became part of the academic year schedule. Now, the team is up to 35 members, with 21 actively competing at region and state competitions.

OGDEN — Amanda Moore couldn’t stop smiling. The Ogden High School senior had just completed her clinical exams for her Certified Nursing Assistant certificate earlier in the day and said she enjoyed every minute of it. She felt her experience, in Brent Richardson’s CNA class at Ogden High School, was outstanding.

“It’s great to help people you know can’t do it by themselves,” she said of her clinical experience.

The class has been challenging, she said, but she has loved it. Moore plans to go to Weber State University this fall and to pursue a nursing degree.

OGDEN ­— More students are graduating in the Ogden School District in 2013 than in any of the past 30 years. If things stay on track, Ogden High School will have about 100 more students graduate this year than last year, and Ben Lomond, which has a 90 percent graduate rate for seniors, will stay about the same.

Approximately 398 seniors will graduate from Ogden High this year, and 266 from Ben Lomond.

“The teachers are working really hard to hold on to our students,” said Ogden High School Principal Stacey Briggs.

BRIGHAM CITY — It started out as a 1948 Allis-Chalmers W Speed Patrol tractor, on the job maintaining and grading roads in rural Idaho.

After being rotated out of the county’s fleet, an Idaho farmer used it to grade his roads and do other miscellaneous jobs before consigning it.

That’s when a Utahn bought it off a used-equipment lot near Preston, Idaho. It could have ended with a rat’s nest in the front, gooey oil and water in the rear, and a body of rust.

But it didn’t.

WEST VALLEY CITY — Newly released police records show that Utah officials believe Josh Powell likely killed his wife and that his brother, Michael Powell, helped dispose of the body, but authorities felt they didn’t have enough evidence to prove that theory in court.

OGDEN -- A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for setting fire to an LDS Church chapel located at 1590 13th Street.