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  • Westgate Hotel offers travelers luxurious stay

    SAN DIEGO — If your budget allows a stay in a luxury hotel, look no further than the Westgate. Completed in 1970, the historical space is filled with antiques, period furniture, crystal chandeliers, French tapestries and Persian rugs. As part of the Grand America Hotel chain, which was owned by Salt Lake native Earl Holding until his recent death, the hotel is luxurious as it is ...

  • 24-year-old killed in motorcycle crash

    OGDEN - A 24-year-old North Ogden man died Friday night from injuries resulting from a motorcycle crash in the 1100 block of Washington Boulevard. Deyne Stocker was riding northbound on Washington Boulevard at speeds exceeding the posted limit of 40 mph, said Lt. Will Cragun of the Ogden Police Department. Stocker’s motorcycle struck a sports utility vehicle and then a tree, Cragun said. ...

  • Rollover on I-15 injures driver

    LEEDS — One person is injured after a car rolled off I-15 in Washington County. At 6:39 p.m., Washington County Dispatch received a call that a northbound car had rolled off of I-15 near Leeds. The driver was ejected from the car. No information has been confirmed about the person's condition. No other occupants were in the vehicle. Utah Highway Patrol closed all northbound ...

  • Utahn shares memories of time aboard U.S.S. Midway

    SAN DIEGO — Docked off the coast of San Diego, the U.S.S. Midway hosts thousands of visitors every day. But for a volunteer, the ship is where he became a man, decades ago. In 1969, 22-year-old Jeff Forrey boarded the ship during the Vietnam for his Navy service. He spent four years on the ship. "It's kinda like coming back home," he said. "When I first saw the ...

  • Utah researchers discover beneficial role of vitamin D after exercise

    March 2010, Annalise Sandburg walks with her dog Pi at Liberty Park. Local researchers have found that people who are Vitamin D deficient and are able to boost their levels through supplements or better sun exposure cut their risk for cardiovascular disease and a host of other chronic ...


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An early teaser poster for Olivers Stones W., a rushed-to-the-theaters portrait of the 43rd President, asked us to get ready, implying that the film was going to be made of contentious, polarizing stuff. Naturally, the mere idea of making a film about George W. Bush while he was still in office and ... ...

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  • Bear River Massacre remains laid to rest 150 years later

    TREMONTON — More than 150 years after a brutal massacre of Native Americans, two sets of remains from the Bear River Massacre reached their final resting place. On Jan. 29, 1863, about 200 California volunteers led by Col. Patrick Edward Connor attacked the winter camp of the Northwestern Shoshone near what is now Preston, Idaho. The troops killed approximately 250 Native Americans ...

  • Semitrailer tips on I-70 in Emery County

    EMERY COUNTY — A semitrailer carrying motorcycles on I-70 tipped over, blocking two lanes on a bridge. Around 4:25 p.m. Saturday, a semitrailer was travelling westbound on I-70 when a gust of wind caused the driver to lose control. The truck tipped onto its driver's side near milepost 131. The semitrailer was transporting motorcycles in an enclosed trailer, which needed to be ...

  • Weber County man killed in officer-involved shooting

    WASHINGTON TERRACE CITY — A Weber County man is dead following an officer-involved shooting. At 12:49 a.m. Saturday morning, Jeffrey Lynn Foote, 39, called the Weber County Dispatch saying he was going to shoot himself, according to the sheriff's office. Weber County Sheriff's Office deputies responded immediately, arriving at the home of Foote's parents ...

  • Soccer ref remembered by loved ones at match

    SALT LAKE CITY — The soccer referee who was punched and killed last month was remembered at a soccer match Saturday. Family and friends of Ricardo Portillo, 46, held a fundraiser Saturday to remember the man who was killed after a 17-year-old player punched him after he issued a yellow card. Loved ones sold fruit, drinks, and other snacks outside an indoor soccer match hoping to raise a ...

  • Probe looks into strain on endangered Colorado River

    SALT LAKE CITY - A massive probe of the challenges to the Colorado River system enters another phase with a Tuesday meeting in San Diego, where multiple state representatives, the federal government and a 10-tribe Native American partnership look to "what's next" for the struggling river. At issue is a river system already serving 30 million people that is being sapped by ...

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