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PROVO — Hope4Utah's idea that it takes a village to raise a child — and to save one — may expand to college and university campuses.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A recently completed audit on the U.S. military discovered a large cache of pricey intercontinental ballistic missile parts stored at Hill Air Force Base were inaccurately invoiced as not working.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Walmart is enlisting their customers in a new public push to sell higher-alcohol beer in Utah.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch is backtracking after saying this week that he wasn’t concerned that prosecutors have implicated President Donald Trump in a crime.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A nonprofit group laid out a recipe Thursday to reduce Utah’s prison and jail populations, cut crime, save lives and unburden taxpayers.
Music director Mack Wilberg looked around with a puzzled expression when Lloyd Newell announced guest artist Kristin Chenoweth’s entrance at the Tabernacle at Temple Square’s Christmas concert Thursday night, but she was nowhere to be seen onstage.
OGDEN — When you’re mining the depths of incomparable songwriters like Bob Dylan and Tom Waits, it’s hard to go wrong.
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ROY — Roy officials have decided on a new city manager to administer the city, and after a revolving door of officials in the post, the incoming administrator is hoping to stick around for a while.
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Nearly 250 kids got a surprise on Thursday, delivered by airmen from Hill Air Force Base.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America deflected questions about a report suggesting it is considering seeking bankruptcy protection, though the head of the organization said it is exploring “all options” as it tries to stay afloat while facing sexual abuse lawsuits and dwindling membership.
OGDEN — The Wasatch Figure Skating Club is hosting a Winter Showcase event Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Ice Sheet in Ogden.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base’s final combat-ready F-35 squadron is now starting to acquire its most important equipment.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A wave of bomb threats emailed Thursday to hundreds of schools, businesses and government buildings across the U.S. triggered searches, evacuations and fear — but there were no signs of explosives, and authorities said the scare appeared to be a crude extortion attempt.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden initially refused to run with then-presidential candidate Barack Obama a decade ago, but his family ultimately convinced him he had to support an African-American candidate with a real chance of winning, he said Thursday at the at the Uni…
Airmen and airwomen from Hill Air Force Base deliver Christmas gifts to over 730 children in foster care families in northern Utah on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, as part of the Santa Brigade program with Utah Foster Care.
Boundaries for some Weber School District elementary schools have been officially changed.
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EDEN — As it eyes expansion, officials at the Nordic Valley ski resort want to make sure the facility in its current configuration meets the needs of its clientele.
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Gov. Gary Herbert has proposed $5 million more per year for the constitutionally guaranteed defense of poor criminal suspects, but Utah still would trail neighboring states by most related measures.
OGDEN — Pending one final city council approval, Ogden City's protracted search for a new airport manager is over.
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OGDEN — Calls from jail suggest the two defendants in a murder case are pointing the finger at one another as to who shot and killed a homeless man in August near an Ogden pond.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Melvin Dummar, a delivery driver who claimed that billionaire Howard Hughes left a handwritten will bequeathing him $156 million when he died in 1976, has died in rural Nevada.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Outgoing U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah bemoaned the disappearance of political civility, kinship and cross-party collaboration during a farewell speech Wednesday where he called the Senate a legislative body in “crisis.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s once-devoted lawyer and all-around fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for allowing what he said was his “blind loyalty” to Trump to lead him astray. “I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds,” he said.
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The bad news, if you're driving — snow and snow showers in and around Weber and Davis counties will probably linger until early Wednesday afternoon.
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A giant holiday balloon train by Locally Twisted is on display at the Newgate Mall on Wall Avenue in Ogden.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who is the longest-serving Republican senator in history, is delivering his farewell speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning.
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WASHINGTON TERRACE — Mayor Mark Allen suspects leaders in neighboring South Ogden and Riverdale may have strong feelings about Washington Terrace leaders’ decision to back out of talks to unify their fire departments.
As Weber State University nears its 130th birthday, Jan. 7, this is a good time to reflect on its history and its impact here at home and on the international scene.
Over the years, I have tried many project tools to organize workflow and keep a team on track. Some were mandated from a boss above, others recommended by a colleague and still others I’ve found on my own and tried to force on my team. None have worked. Why?
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OGDEN — The city and a local activist group have raised the money needed to extend honorary city streets for Martin Luther King Jr. and César Chávez in Ogden.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a wild Oval Office confrontation, President Donald Trump heatedly threatened to shut down the U.S. government Tuesday as he and Democratic leaders bickered over funding for his promised border wall and offered a grim preview of life in Washington the next two years under…
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SALT LAKE CITY — A snowstorm is expected to dump a few inches of snow during the morning commute Wednesday.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Board of Education has agreed to budget nearly $600,000 for strategic communications.
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OGDEN — At Aurora Guzman’s home, a three-bedroom trailer in Ogden that she shares with her six kids, space can get tight.
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OGDEN — Ahead of what figures to be one of the biggest tourist draws in the city’s history, officials are trying to make Ogden easier to navigate for newcomers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Five people in President Donald Trump's orbit have pleaded guilty to federal charges. Prosecutors in Washington and New York are investigating whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin in the 2016 election and whether Trump directed an illegal hush-money schem…
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration wants to reclassify some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to lower its threat level and make disposal cheaper and easier.
LAYTON — An 18-year-old is in jail after he was arrested Saturday evening on an alleged robbery charge.
Habitat for Humanity in Ogden is hosting a holiday gingerbread house contest. People can purchase a gingerbread house kit at the Habitat for Humanity Restore and all proceeds will go toward the construction of Aurora Guzman and her six children's new home. The ginger bread houses can be seen…
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two new air monitors have been installed to track air pollution in Utah.
OGDEN — A pair of new businesses want to move into the Ogden Business Exchange, but they first want the city to authorize building sizes that are much larger than what’s presently allowed there.
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FARR WEST — In her work as a driver license examiner, Megan Shimizu has learned a lot about organ donation.
Cathy McKitrick is a freelance journalist. You can follow her on Facebook or Twitter (@catmck). She can also be reached at catmckit@gmail.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump evaluated new candidates to serve as his next chief of staff Sunday after plans for an orderly succession for departing John Kelly fell through.
WEST HAVEN — The firm mulling a large housing development on an open field has scaled back plans, tempering the ire of some adjacent homeowners who worry the expansion will disrupt their neighborhood.
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OGDEN — Four new faces will be representing Weber County when the Utah House convenes for the 2019 session next month.
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OGDEN — Larry Gallegos found out the hard way that his uncle died in prison.
SALT LAKE CITY — Three mortuary personnel have been given suspended jail sentences for offenses including selling gold taken from bodies and cremating infants and fetuses with adults.
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The Davis School District launched a new website this fall that will cost $75,000 annually.
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OGDEN — Thanks to a large grant from the federal government, Ogden City is looking to complete a restoration of the Weber River where it flows through west Ogden.
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