SALT LAKE CITY — A change-of-plea and sentencing hearing has been scheduled for a Russian citizen accused of smuggling F-16 technical manuals to his nation and other countries.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Crews from Hill Air Force Base’s two fighter wings have finished a key component of their European security deployment.
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NORTH OGDEN — Federal officials hope the legacy of former North Ogden Mayor and Utah National Guardsman Brent Taylor will exert a meaningful influence on an important veterans facility operating in Northern Utah.
For the first time, Utah’s Honor Flight program will take an all-female flight to the nation’s capital on Thursday. LaRetta Johnson Duncan, 87, of Provo will be on that flight.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office says in-service F-35s were unable to fly nearly 30 percent of the time during a six-month period in 2018 because of part shortages and mismatches and repair backlogs.
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NORTH OGDEN — Northern Utah’s only vet center will officially be named after former North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor.
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PORTSMOUTH, England (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II and world leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump gathered Wednesday on the south coast of England to honor the troops who risked and sacrificed their lives 75 years ago on D-Day, a bloody but ultimately triumphant turning point in World War II.
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CLINTON — While one portion of a massive freeway project at 1800 North in Clinton is set to go, transportation officials say they’re still waiting on funding for the other.
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SOUTH WEBER — The Trump administration is switching Weber Basin Job Corps Center to contract management, a move encountering intense opposition from the employees union and skepticism from Utah Rep. Rob Bishop.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For much of the summer, the remaining portions of Hill Air Force Base's F-35 team will be flying out of a home away from home.
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KAYSVILLE — Larry Steed paid tribute to fallen fellow combat pilots, applauded military families that hold down the home front, and mixed in a few critiques of politicians and war protesters.
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The Redd sons have known since a young age what their parents expected of them.
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ROY — The Purple Heart, the U.S. flag folded into a triangle, the black-and-white picture of the military man holding the mortar shell — it’s all a mystery.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Combat F-35s and associated crews from Hill Air Force Base continue with a heavy deployment load.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — As members of Utah’s congressional delegation push the federal government to prioritize a nuclear weapons modernization program at Hill Air Force Base, local officials are asking the transportation department to be aware of an influx of new jobs that will come with it.
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Brent and Jennie Taylor’s story began at Brigham Young University. As undergraduates, their roommates set them up, pitching to Jennie that Brent was the male version of her.
Several public events are happening on Memorial Day in Northern Utah, including a veterans program at Kaysville Cemetery and the kickoff of Ogden Dinosaur Park's summer season.
OGDEN — A Russian is jailed in Weber County, charged with smuggling F-16 fighter manuals to Moscow and trying to obtain guides for other front-line Air Force jets.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force is moving a significant weapons testing program to Hill Air Force Base, which will bring new jobs and according to one federal lawmaker, add to the base’s standing within the Department of Defense.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — When it comes to federal military spending across the country, Utah — a state with one of the largest Air Force installations in the U.S. — ranks mostly near the middle of the pack.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Brent Taylor did not only make his mark serving the Utah Army National Guard and as mayor of North Ogden.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force now says Hill Air Force Base’s risk for climate-related peril is not as dire as an earlier Department of Defense report may have made it seem.
A federal court will hear arguments dissecting the legal definitions of automatic weapons and determining whether an Orem inventor’s imprisonment for manufacturing machine guns should stand.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — F-35s from Hill Air Force Base have conducted combat strikes on enemy forces for the first time.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — More than 120 airmen from Hill Air Force Base returned Monday from a seven-month deployment in the Middle East.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — During most of the month of May, residents near Hill Air Force Base will see an uptick in military air traffic.
NORTH OGDEN — A gigantic U.S. flag inspired by Brent Taylor, the North Ogden mayor killed while serving last year in Afghanistan, has been finished and will soon make its formal public debut.
OGDEN — With a new census coming during the next calendar year, an Ogden man says he’s redoubling his effort to prompt the bureau responsible for it to get a more robust counting of veterans.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — F-35s from Hill Air Force Base have deployed to the Middle East for the first time.
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For two decades, a federal law has allowed local law enforcement agencies to acquire surplus military gear — everything from gloves, tents and flares to assault rifles and mine-resistant vehicles.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Of the 79 “mission-critical” United States military installations operating today, the Pentagon says Hill Air Force Base is the most at risk for negative impacts from climate change.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The conversation lasted a few minutes.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Two members of Utah’s Congressional Delegation say there’s no reason to think another Base Realignment and Closure round is on the horizon — but if that ever changes, Hill Air Force Base is in the best position it’s ever been to avoid it.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has signed the measure renaming a North Ogden veterans facility after Maj. Brent Taylor, the former mayor of the city killed last November while serving in Afghanistan.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Ron Rockwell Hansen smiled and winked at his wife as U.S. marshals took him away after he pleaded guilty Friday to spying for China.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base’s growing fleet of F-35s will soon be seen and heard more frequently in Northern Utah’s night skies.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Young F-35 fighter pilots from Hill Air Force Base recently wrapped up a simulated “baptism by fire” in the southern Nevada desert.
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You can reach reporter Mitch Shaw at mishaw@standard.net. Follow him on Twitter at @mitchshaw23
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a resolution to rename a North Ogden veterans facility after Brent Taylor, the Utah Army National Guard major killed last November in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jennie Taylor, the widow of Brent Taylor, will be attending the State of the Union address by President Donald Trump next week at the invitation of U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop.
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OGDEN — According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 40,000 veterans living in the six northernmost counties in Utah.
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NORTH OGDEN — It’s safe to say that the lives of Jennie Taylor, Travis Vendela and Brian Johnston have all been irrevocably changed by war.
Leslie Zimmerman knows she’d deploy again if she was still in the military. But now, as a mom of three, she knows it would be difficult.
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Moving forward since the death of her husband last month, Jennie Taylor has wanted to put the focus on her seven kids, staying home to care for them.
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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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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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Ken Potts is one of five living survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec 7, 1941. Though the day is always with him, it doesn’t bother the 97-year-old Provo resident any more.
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At the time of his death, Maj. Brent Taylor was part of a 3-year-old multinational program to train Afghan troops, police forces and security units in the ongoing struggle against the Taliban.
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NORTH OGDEN — Nearly a month after the death of her husband, Jennie Taylor is still figuring out what comes next.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Brent Taylor, the North Ogden mayor killed earlier this month while serving in Afghanistan, may be memorialized along the city’s busiest street.
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PLEASANT GROVE — The organization responsible for displaying a massive American flag in Coldwater Canyon in recent weeks wants to expand and take their message on the road.
