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Mountain West Medical respiratory therapist Jennifer Leach (left) shows off some of the features in the post-partum rooms in the new Women’s Center Tuesday afternoon during a tour of the new wing. The 16,000-square-foot facility has eight labor, delivery and recovery rooms.
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Mountain West Medical Center has delivered on a plan to build a new wing that more than doubles the hospital’s capacity for women’s services. The new Women’s Center was unveiled to the public on T...
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A federal judge has struck down two rulings made by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2006 that effectively put an end to the plan of a band of Goshute Indians and Private Fuel Storage, a cons...
Col. Gerald Gladney hands off the Deseret Chemical Depot flag during the change-of-command ceremony Thursday. The ceremony was the last change of command for the DCD.
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The Deseret Chemical Depot changed commanders for the last time Thursday, as Col. Gerald L. Gladney handed over the reins to Col. Mark B. Pomeroy, whose tenure as commander of the depot will includ...
Carlson Miller Brands employee Nate Seal unloads a truck at Zacatecas Market on the corner of Main and Vine streets in Tooele on Tuesday morning. While some businesses downtown have shut their doors, Zacatecas Market owner Samuel Berumen says keeping regular store hours has helped keep them in business for the last three years.
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- photography / Maegan Burr
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Three stores have closed on one block of downtown Tooele in recent months, with two other store fronts on the same block unoccupied and now for sale, slowing what appeared to be a revival for downt...
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EnergySolutions gives up plans to import foreign nuclear waste
Congressman Rob Bishop is serving his fourth term representing Utah’s 1st Congressional District, which includes Tooele County.
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Tooele County’s congressman explains views on topics ranging from immigration to federalism
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Stansbury Boy Scout troop 1816 Scouts Connor Littlefield (left) and Jeremy Sloan cook hot dogs over the fire at one of the campgrounds in South Willow Canyon Wednesday evening. The use of campgrounds in South Willow Canyon and Settlement Canyon have seen a steady increase.
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Campers and recreationalists have taken full advantage of Tooele Valley’s canyons and campgrounds this summer as both Settlement Canyon and South Willow Canyon — the two canyons that charge fees — ...
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Unfinished sidewalk pushing drivers and walkers closer together on busy street
A grasshopper crawls on a weed in Rush Valley on Wednesday evening. Spraying for grasshoppers is planned for next week near Grantsville and in Rush Valley.
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A second round of spraying for grasshoppers is planned for next week outside of Grantsville and in Rush Valley — areas that were not part of a spraying earlier this month. “It’s as bad as it was l...
Dry grass blows in the wind over the northeast end of Erda Monday afternoon. Erda is weighing the pros and cons of incorporation following landowners’ petitions to withdraw from the township.
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- photography / Maegan Burr
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As property owners petition for withdrawal, residents consider their options
Assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Potsdam Benjamin Pykles (center) talks to two of his students, Grace Highsmith (left) and Jennifer Webber, Wednesday morning at a dig site in Iosepa. Pykles and his students have returned after a one-year hiatus to dig for remnants of the Polynesian settlement.
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Armed with the tools of their future trade, a group of New York anthropology students and their professor have returned to Iosepa to continue digging into the past of the abandoned Polynesian settl...
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But they warn of flare ups as fuels dry out
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The Tooele Army Depot christened a new $3.8 million wind turbine project Wednesday that’s the first initiative of its kind in the nation for the Army. Rising nearly 400 feet above the landscape, i...
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Couple looking to restore mysterious 112-year-old home
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All Cody Stanworth wanted to do was go to a birthday party. On June 21, the 16-year-old was jogging the mile and a half from his Grantsville home on Old Lincoln Highway to a friend’s party when he...
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The protracted legal battle between the developer of Overlake and Tooele City is headed for the state Supreme Court. Tooele Associates has decided to appeal the June 3 mistrial ruling made by 3rd ...
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Army sergeant comes back to hero’s welcome in Grantsville with stories from the front lines of Iraq War
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It sometimes costs big bucks to put on a free event. The Tooele Arts Festival, which kicks off for the 25th consecutive year this weekend, is estimated to cost $62,000 to put on, according to Al W...
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In a back-and-forth game between Stansbury and Taylorsville Legion in the Utah Legion State Tournament Tuesday afternoon, it was Taylorsville that always seemed to have the upper hand. A two-run ...
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Last year’s grasshopper invasion was of almost biblical proportions. Vegetation in some rural areas was nibbled into nonexistence, and even in urban areas like Overlake homes were coated in swarms....
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AP - The showdown over Arizona's immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix's sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to "live in fear." Dozens were arrested.
Fri Jul 30 02:17:01 -0500 2010
AP - Firefighters plan an aggressive air attack at first light Friday against a fast-moving wildfire that exploded in northern Los Angeles County, chewing through more than 7 square miles of dry brush, forcing hundreds of evacuations and burning at least three structures.
Fri Jul 30 02:16:50 -0500 2010
AP - Even when the oily sheen starts fading from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, it manages to become bad news for fishermen.
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