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Rainy month bolsters West Nile threat
by Natalie Tripp
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A wet June has local mosquito abatement officials scrambling to prevent an outbreak of West Nile virus. In Utah, West Nile has already been confirmed in Box Elder, Salt Lake, Utah and Washington c...
City loses $20.7 million lawsuit to Overlake developer
by Tim Gillie
9 days ago | 11 11 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
Tooele City just made history — but not in a way any city would boast about. Last Friday, a jury in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City decided Tooele was guilty of breaching agreements with Overl...

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Tekoi landfill wants ‘loose’ waste change
by Sarah Miley
2 days 22 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
A landfill in Skull Valley on the Goshute Indian Reservation wants to change the form of the waste it accepts in order to ensure its future viability. The Tekoi Balefill facility, which is owned a...
Heavy hitter to head new biz center
by Tim Gillie
7 days ago | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
A native son with an impressive business background has been tapped to head up Tooele County’s new small business resource center, which opened it’s doors last week. Glen Lowry, 62, grew up in Too...
Tight job market pits youths against adults looking for summer work
by Natalie Tripp
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Young people are finding summer jobs harder to come by in a down economy, partly because of increasing competition from adult job seekers. Deseret Peak Complex Director Mark McKendrick said the co...
A Teacher Says Goodbye
by Tim Gillie
14 days ago | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Linda Ekker retires after a quarter century at small Vernon Elementary
UHP seeking reasons for I-80 crash
by Natalie Tripp
16 days ago | 3 3 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
The Utah Highway Patrol has located the driver of a white pickup that potentially caused a fatal accident on I-80 in Tooele County Saturday morning. According to Sgt. Jeff Nigbur of the Utah High...
Man dies after ATV accident
by Jamie Belnap
21 days ago | 1 1 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
Death is second related fatality in a month
Grammy winner hurt in skydiving accident
by Jamie Belnap
23 days ago | 2 2 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
Grammy-winning producer and prominent Stockton resident Douglas Spotted Eagle was critically injured Monday afternoon after a botched skydiving landing at the Tooele Valley Airport. Spotted Eagle,...
Tooele City vs. Overlake trial begins
by Tim Gillie
28 days ago | 2 2 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
Either an out-of-town developer played “catch me if you can” with city officials, or a city reneged on its promise of water to serve an anti-growth agenda. That was the picture painted by attorney...
Worker killed in demolition accident at lime plant near Delle
by Jamie Belnap
1 month ago | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
A 50-year-old Salt Lake City man was killed Thursday afternoon after a 100,000-pound steel storage bin collapsed on top of him at the former site of the Marblehead lime plant near Delle. Ronald Sa...
Hail of Bullets
by Jamie Belnap
1 month ago | 3 3 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
Reckless shooting is blighting some of the county’s best wild places and endangering recreationalists
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down — throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.


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Christopher Tomlinson with the Bucks County department of health blows off a mosquito from his arm while he spreads biological larvicide into stagnant water to help control mosquito population at a public golf course in Fairless Hills, Pa., Friday, June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried — he's already running out of money.


Fri Jul 03 17:09:17 -0500 2009
AP - Terrified residents canceled Fourth of July plans and holed up in their homes Friday as investigators hunted a serial killer believed to have shot four people to death.
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