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Gadhafi's forces on all sides of key gateway city

TOBRUK, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi's forces surrounded the gateway to opposition-held territory on Thursday, seizing positions on all sides of rebels who are hoping for help from the U.N. Security Council before government troops move in.

Public invited to AAUW meeting about Paris after WWI

OGDEN — The Northern Utah branch of the American Association of University Women will have an opportunity to hear about “Frivolous Paris Just After the First World War,” presented by Weber State University Emeritus Professor of French Language and Literature Jean Andra Miller.

(ANTHONY SOUFFLE/Standard-Examiner) Michael Hillier (left), of North Ogden, returns Doug Erling’s World War I-era M1 carbine during the utah Gun Collectors Antique and Modern Gun Show on Saturday.

Collectors show off guns, historic items

OGDEN -- Carrying a rifle and clad in an authentic uniform, Gus Bryngelson looked every inch the Russian soldier Saturday as he guarded his display of World War I memorabilia at the Utah Gun Collectors Association's Antique and Modern Gun Show at the Golden Spike Arena.

Students urged to serve on day off for Martin Luther King Day

LAYTON -- Instead of just sitting at home on Martin Luther King Day, the American Red Cross wants teens to honor the legacy of the civil rights leader with a "day on" instead of a day off.

Make 2011 the year you preserve your own past for the future

Kodachrome film died Thursday. The last roll ran through the last Kodachrome processing machine, and at that instant, the world lost one of its best ways to preserve images.

(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Galen Schatzman, an employee at Young Buick GMC, stands Tuesday near the bed of a truck filled with letters the dealership has collected for military service members. Schatzman, whose son is in Afghanistan with the Air Force, helped organize the collection of letters after his son told him several service members rarely get mail from home.

Car dealer encourages letters to service members

LAYTON -- A Top of Utah car dealer is doing its best to make sure no soldiers are forgotten over the holidays. Young Buick GMC is spearheading a program to encourage friends, family, customers and classrooms in Davis County to write letters and send care packages to deployed military personnel in Afghanistan who might not otherwise receive such gifts.

Wreaths ceremony to honor veterans

SALT LAKE CITY — A program to honor all military men and women who are away from their families this holiday season will be held at 11 a.m. today at the state Capitol.

Wreaths Across America is one of more than three dozen state house ceremonies being held simultaneously nationwide at memorial sites to remember that we are one nation with one flag, said organizer Dennis Howland, Utah VFW state commander.

Wreaths Across America is sponsored by the Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine.

Nigeria: Soldiers raid militant camps in oil delta

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Soldiers raided three militant camps Wednesday hidden in the winding creeks of Nigeria's oil-rich and restive southern delta, seizing heavy weaponry in an attack rebels claimed killed more than 100 people.

The attack started Wednesday afternoon in Delta state, an oil-producing state in the middle of Niger Delta, military spokesman Lt. Col. Timothy Antigha said.

Militants in the Niger Delta have attacked pipelines, kidnapped petroleum company employees and fought government troops since 2006. The attacks cut drastically into crude production in Nigeria, an OPEC-member nation that is crucial to U.S. oil supplies. Production has risen back to 2.2 million barrels of oil a day, in part due to many militant leaders and fighters accepting the amnesty deal.

NKorea warns region is on brink of war

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea -- North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war, and appeared to launch its own artillery drills within sight of an island it showered with a deadly barrage this week.

The fresh artillery blasts were especially defiant because they came as the U.S. commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, toured the South Korean island to survey damage from Tuesday's hail of North Korean artillery fire that killed four people.

None of the latest rounds hit the South's territory, and U.S. military officials said

(Courtesy photo) Clearfield High School students inspect the battle flag of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. They were allowed to touch the banner Friday after washing their hands with soap and rinsing them three times to remove any soap residue. The flag’s owner, a Clearfield High alumnus, loaned the flag in conjunction with the 147th anniversary of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

Clearfield High students allowed to touch Civil War battle flag to commemorate Gettysburg Address

CLEARFIELD -- Rather than hear and see pictures pertaining to U.S. history, students at Clearfield High School were treated this week to touching a piece of history.

(TORI E. BRIGHT/Standard-Examiner) Hohenschwangau's castles are a must see on your trip to Germany. This photo is taken from inside Schloss Neuschwanstein and shows some of the beautfiul lakes, Schloss Hohenschwangau, and part of the Bavarian Alps.

OTHER THINGS TO SEE IN GERMANY:

Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial -- Just outside of Weimar, this was among the earliest and largest Nazi camps in Germany. It was not designed as an extermination camp, but rather a labor camp. Still, thousands died there.

Travel: Germany

(CHARLES F. TRENTELMAN/Standard-Examiner)Adean Mason, seen here in her Ogden home, spent her entire naval career at the St. Albans Hospital on Long Island, N.Y., tending to some of the thousands of wounded Korean War soldiers.

Korean War veteran from Ogden remembers supporting injured soldiers in N.Y. hospital

OGDEN -- Adean Mason joined the Navy to see the world, but she never got past Long Island, N.Y.

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