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In the 1960s and 1970s, Dolores Huerta worked alongside civil rights leader César Chávez.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his previous restraint, President Donald Trump challenged the credibility of the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, declaring that if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to law enforcement.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Attorneys general from West Virginia and 10 other states are asking the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to further tighten the manufacture of opioids.
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OGDEN — Ogden City officials say they don’t know the fate of a proposed hospital facility on 12th Street.
OGDEN — The fifth day of an Ogden murder trial saw more testimony from forensic investigators, as well as a friend of the South Ogden man at the center of the trial.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Christine Blasey Ford may testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after all, her attorney said Thursday, breathing new life into the prospect of a dramatic Senate showdown next week over Ford's accusation that he assaulted her when both were in high school.
CLEARFIELD — Get your hands on some cheap books this weekend at another library book sale in Davis County.
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AMES, Iowa (AP) — It was decades ago, but Sara Schwendinger remembers perfectly the panic she felt when she realized a car was following her as she ran along a country road at dusk, just outside her small Wisconsin hometown.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A Pleasant View man has been federally indicted in connection with two bank robberies that occurred in Weber County in August.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Another giraffe has joined the herd at Utah’s Hogle Zoo.
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Utah is a public lands state. Nearly two-thirds is federal land managed by the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management or the National Park Service. There are also more than 40 state parks managed by the Utah Department of Natural Resources.
SAN FRANCISCO — A 45-year-old man accused of sex crimes who’s been on the lam for over two years was apprehended Wednesday in California by U.S. Marshals.
OGDEN — What a difference a year makes.
OGDEN — After years of confusion in the interpretation and enforcement of the corresponding code, Ogden City is conducting a major overhaul of its residential parking ordinance.
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DRAPER — Four men with northern Utah ties — including an Ogden man convicted of attempted murder — were said to be involved in an assault earlier this year at the Utah State Prison in Draper.
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DRAPER, Utah (AP) — A woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart and stood by as the Utah girl was sexually assaulted was released from prison Wednesday amid concerns that she remains a threat 15 years after the chilling crime.
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ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The relaxed new dress code at public schools in the small city of Alameda, across the bay from San Francisco, is intentionally specific: Midriff-baring shirts are acceptable attire, so are tank tops with spaghetti straps and other once-banned items like micro-mini skir…
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah schools are charging students excessive and unreasonable fees to participate in sports and extracurricular clubs, according to a new state audit.
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OGDEN — Police have made one arrest and issued two arrest warrants in connection with a shooting on 25th Street earlier this month that injured three people.
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OGDEN — Development is coming to unincorporated Weber County, west of Ogden and the cluster of cities around Interstate 15 heading toward the Great Salt Lake.
OGDEN — It's been 23 years in one case and 15 in another, but Martin Luther King Jr. and César Chávez are finally getting their full due in Ogden.
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There's a new hospital in the Layton neighborhood.
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A Utah woman has sued two major defense contractors over the cancer death of her husband, who worked for 15 years blasting paint, rust and corrosion off military aircraft.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart said Tuesday that she's been assured the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted will be closely watched when she's released from prison.
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Pumpkin pie, casseroles and rich creamy soups will be sounding so good once autumn is here. But shorter days, colder weather and comfort food can result in extra weight gain. Let’s face it, most of us started off summer with a goal to eat healthy and exercise more, but the reality is we enjo…
OGDEN -- The courtroom was shown autopsy photos and forensic details of the crime scene during the fourth day of a jury trial regarding a 2016 murder in Ogden.
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SALT LAKE CITY — For the fourth time, the federal jury trial for a former nurse blamed for spreading hepatitis C around two Northern Utah hospitals has again been pushed back.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trading accusations, Democratic and Republican senators quarreled Tuesday over who will testify at what promises to be a dramatic and emotional hearing next Monday with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who says he sexually assaulted her when they were in …
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BEIJING (AP) — The U.S.-China trade war escalated further Tuesday, with China announcing retaliatory tax increases on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports, including coffee, honey and industrial chemicals.
SALT LAKE CITY — Out of a pool of five previously announced candidates, two will become district court judges.
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OGDEN — After a series of public meetings and surveys, with the ballot language pinpointed, now comes the time for the Ogden School District to sell its $87 million bond proposal to the public.
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OGDEN — The third day of an Ogden murder trial saw testimony from a key witness and law enforcement officers who responded to the scene.
HOOPER — Authorities have identified the Hooper city employee who drowned after falling into a sewer pipe.
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PLEASANT VIEW — Two students were taken to the hospital and dozens of others were examined by medical personnel after being sickened by an unknown odor at Weber High School Monday morning.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — LDS church leaders are calling for Utah lawmakers to pass medical-marijuana legislation by the end of the year even as they urge people to vote against a ballot measure that would legalize medical marijuana in the state.
OGDEN -- Trial dates have been set for a Huntsville man accused of killing his stepfather in 2017.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault both indicated Monday they would be willing to testify to a Senate panel as the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee shifted from seemingly painless to problematic.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon man who led a campaign criticizing the church’s practice of allowing closed-door, one-on-one interviews of youth by lay leaders that sometimes included sexual questions has been kicked out of the faith following a disciplinary hearing.
OGDEN — Students and community members can learn how area law enforcement agencies are trying to reduce racial bias in their policing efforts at a barbecue Saturday at Weber State.
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OGDEN — Who knew one insect could draw so many people together?
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Democrats in Weber County can have it tough seeking elective office given the GOP dominance in the area.
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OGDEN — Ogden City recently finalized a plan that establishes a downtown creative district — now they’re looking for local artists to help mold it.
OGDEN — Community members can learn more about a ballot proposition that would expand Medicaid in Utah at an Ogden town hall Monday.
Editor's note: This story was updated at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 17, with new information from the state.
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They died in anonymity, these three local men whose lives ended after they went to jail.
Bank of Utah to purchase American Bank of Commerce
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OGDEN — “So Archie’s is better than the grill before it?” asked a friend on a photo I posted of delicious Brussels sprouts and Cajun bacon mac and cheese.
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OGDEN — Instead of going to jail, some intoxicated homeless people picked up by Ogden police now may be dropped off at the Lantern House shelter.
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