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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials reported nine more confirmed deaths from COVID-19 on Monday but the weekly average for new cases dropped to the lowest level in two months.
WOODS CROSS — A woman told police her boyfriend beat her while they were driving on Interstate 15 on Saturday.
SOUTH WEBER — A South Weber man was jailed on suspicion of arson Sunday after he allegedly started a fire that burned his neighbor’s fence and house siding.
Hill Air Force Base’s 86th Fighter Weapons Squadron is conducting an in-depth weapons evaluation at Hill Air Force Base and the Utah Test and Training Range this week, bringing with it a variety of aircraft to the skies around northern Utah.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A Layton woman has failed in her second attempt to obtain additional compensation for her husband’s death due to cancer-causing chemicals at Hill Air Force Base.
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TAYLOR — Most people build their home in a town somewhere. But Michael and Sharyl Ackley have built a town around their home.
Tracy Byrd and openers Drive Country Band perform to a crowd practicing social distancing during the Weber County "UnFair" event at the Golden Spike Arena in Ogden on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020.
RIVERDALE — Weber County prosecutors have filed charges against three men arrested after an alleged sexual assault against a woman in a motel parking lot.
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BOUNTIFUL — At a mostly white high school near Salt Lake City, the steps leading to the football field are covered in red handprints, arrows and drawings of Native American men in headdresses meant to represent the mascot, the Braves. “Welcome to the Dark Side” and “Fight like a Brave” are s…
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OGDEN — Two popular downtown eateries are on the move.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — When it comes to the F-35, the cachet associated with the U.S. military’s “next-generation” fighter is usually reserved for the pilots putting it into the sky.
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ROY — One suspect is dead and another in custody after an officer-involved shooting in a field in Clinton.
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OGDEN — Jovany Mercado wasn’t perfect.
Just a few miles north of Boston is the town of Somerville, Massachusetts — its residents number about 79,000. It is one of the most densely populated and diverse communities in New England.
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Amid allegations of adultery dating to a prior marriage, Darren Parry, the Democratic candidate for the 1st District U.S. House seat, says his campaign is moving forward.
OGDEN — A 31-year-old man who was en route to visit friends Friday was found dead, slumped over the steering wheel after his minivan crashed into a fence.
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OGDEN — A judge Friday dismissed a petition that sought the release of federal prisoners from the Weber County Jail, site of a major COVID-19 outbreak this summer.
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The world's leading provider of online family history and personal DNA testing, Ancestry.com announced Wednesday it has been purchased.
OGDEN — The body of an unidentified man was found Friday morning on Ogden’s east bench.
OGDEN — Three men burst into an Ogden home Thursday, pointed firearms at the occupants and ransacked the dwelling, the police department said.
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WASHINGTON — A lifetime before he served two presidents as national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft was just 12 when he decided to become a West Point cadet after reading about cadet life. After he graduated with the Class of 1947, he decided to join the Army Air Corps and train to be a fi…
PLAIN CITY — A woman was trapped in a crashed, burning car early Friday morning but was pulled to safety before first-responders arrived.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah will no longer recommend that schools allow students who have been exposed to COVID-19 to come to class following pushback from doctors and educators, state officials said Thursday.
The Jordan River Commission is seeking public input on the future of the Jordan River Parkway Trail as the commission prepares to make long-term improvements to the parkway that lines the river spanning from Utah County to Davis County.
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FARMINGTON — The Davis School District’s alternate-day schedule will remain.
OGDEN — Although, technically, the city’s monthly First Friday Art Stroll will continue to be virtual in August, some participating organizations are beginning to open back up following the pandemic shutdown.
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Utah’s valleys and mountains dried out significantly in July, deepening drought conditions to cover 99% of the state, according to monthly climate data.
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CLEARFIELD — UTOPIA Fiber, the community-owned fiber-optic network serving numerous Utah communities, will be expanding to Clearfield — making it the fourth Davis County locale to establish the system for residential service.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Some Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City could face up to life in prison if they’re convicted of splashing red paint and smashing windows during a protest, a potential punishment that stands out among demonstrators arrested around the country and one that critics…
MOUNTAIN GREEN — A semi truck going too fast tipped over on a curve in a winding stretch of Interstate 84 on Thursday, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
FARMINGTON — A Bountiful woman says in a lawsuit that she suffered a broken foot and had her insulin pump forcibly removed while she was being booked at the Davis County Jail.
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OGDEN — Key in any effort to get a handle on problems caused by short-term rentals in Weber County will be devising a system to effectively address those issues.
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OGDEN — Here’s a heads up for motorists planning to travel through Ogden Canyon on Friday.
The Weber County Unfair rodeo takes place at the Golden Spike Arena in Ogden on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020.
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NORTH OGDEN — North Ogden officials approved a property tax hike Tuesday for fiscal year 2020-2021 following a public hearing on the matter.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A lawsuit accuses an elite private school in Utah of mishandling a 2017 sexual assault allegation from a student with disabilities who endured bullying from classmates, including a reenactment of the rape during a school assembly.
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OGDEN — The Ogden City Council is poised to approve a heavily deliberated development, now years in the making, so long as one final hurdle is cleared later this month.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A group of University of Utah police officers made inappropriate comments about explicit photos of a student who had submitted the pictures as evidence in an extortion case shortly before her shooting death, an investigation found Wednesday.
OGDEN — An attorney has refiled a civil rights lawsuit against local agencies and narcotics officers over a 2014 police shooting in an Ogden restaurant.
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OGDEN — Another cannabis growing operation is hoping to locate in Weber County, joining Harvest of Utah.
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FARMINGTON — The Davis School District board of education has scheduled an emergency meeting for 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, to revisit a hot-button topic: its alternate-day school reopening plan.
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OGDEN — A proposal to help protect the old tower at the Ogden-Hinckley Airport has been shot down, after City Council sentiment suggested it would hamper efforts to bring the airport out of financial insolvency.
FARMINGTON — Davis County officials have begun contract negotiations with a Centerville construction company to build an $8.2 million medical observation unit at the Farmington jail.
Launched last March, the COVID Symptom Tracker app has led to important findings about the COVID-19 pandemic. The app is the data collection vehicle for the COVID Symptom Study, developed by Zoe Global, a health science company, in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital and King’s…
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SALT LAKE CITY — A once-prominent businessman has agreed not to challenge allegations that he made illegal campaign contributions to Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and retired Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
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ROY — For more than two months up until late July, Heritage Park Healthcare and Rehabilitative Services was a COVID-19 hot spot in Weber County.
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It appears COVID-19 has touched thousands more lives along the Wasatch Front than might have been expected after the state announced it is closing the Health Clinics of Utah in Provo, Ogden and Salt Lake City.
A state court has rejected a group of Utah Republican caucus system hard-liners’ defamation lawsuit against a party activist who widely criticized their actions.
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OGDEN — Had the Junior Livestock Show, a central element of the Weber County Fair each year, been axed this go-round due to COVID-19 jitters, there would have been a lot of long faces.
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BOISE, Idaho — A couple at the center of a mystery over the deaths of the woman’s two children were heard in a jailhouse recording speaking by telephone to each other on the day authorities found their bodies on the man’s property in rural Idaho in a case that has attracted national headlines.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — If you live near Hill Air Force Base and have noticed an uptick in fighter jets flying above you house, you aren’t imagining things.
