Roosevelt News

Karen Simonton, director of religious education at St. Helen's Catholic Church, lights a candle on the altar Sunday.

Andre Hurley stands next to his Christmas tree he made from over 600 Mountain Dew cans.

Getting a caffeine/sugar high from one of the ever-popular energy drinks can cost over $2 a can.

The fifth annual Shop with a Cop event in Roosevelt set a record on Saturday for the number of children that were served.

Kim and Stacy Sandberg at the Holly Fair. The Sandbergs sell their nature inspired creations at craft shows and through their Web site www.grahtoestudio.etsy.com. What was once only blocks of wood have been transformed into six-pointed wood creations via a router tip as small as the point of a sharpened pencil lead.

Steve Casper, a UBATC student from Arcadia, is one of the many Uintah Basin residents who benefited from the Workforce Investment Act program before it ran out of money for new customers.

A 57-year-old Cedarview man is being held in Duchesne County Jail under $60,000 bond, accused of sexual misconduct with two teenage boys.

Roosevelt Police have arrested three local men suspected in at least 18 area burglaries over the last six months.

The debate over gay marriage -- and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' role in passing California's anti-gay Proposition 8 -- is coming back to Utah.

Unknown persons spent early Thanksgiving Day in a botched attempt to rob the Davis Jubilee grocery in Roosevelt, police said.

A Roosevelt woman stabbed her husband in the leg with a steak knife Monday morning, Police Chief Rick Harrison said.

Stephanie Chamberlain dips the caramel-covered end of a pretzel into a small tempering machine filled with milk chocolate.

Serious damage to the putting surface is evident on the No. 6 green near the clubhouse at Roosevelt Golf Club.

Hundreds of people turned out for this year's Enchanted Forest, a two-day event on Friday and Saturday sponsored and coordinated by the Duchesne County Area Chamber of Commerce.

Eastside Duchesne County water users were eager to find out more about a proposed pipeline project that would bring a new source of culinary water and new costs to many communities.

Duchesne County School Board members Doug Swasey, Nancy West and Kim Harding go over ballots from the Nov.

Frank "Joe" Steed speaks during Thursday's public hearing on water issues in Roosevelt.

Richard Adams is pictured with his family : Erica, wife Cindy, Rick, Carrie, Brooke and Blake.

Greyhound announced Tuesday that a new low-cost bus service between Salt Lake City and Denver will stop at Newpark Hotel at Kimball Junction.

A utility worker was fatally injured Tuesday when he was struck by a car. Richard Adams, 49, of Roosevelt, was marking telephone wiring boxes along State Street near 1800 South at about 11:30 a.m. when he was hit, said Roosevelt Police Chief Rick Harrison.