West Point News

A West Point toddler is run over and killed in her family's backyard. The accident happened Saturday afternoon around 4:00 p.m. The 15-month-old girl, Grace Hill, is the daughter of West Point's City Manager Gary Hill.

A truck working in a backyard ran over and killed a 15-month-old girl Saturday in West Point.

West Point Mayor Erik Craythorne has been elected before, just not as mayor. The former West Point councilman was appointed to the mayor's seat following the election of former mayor John Petroff Jr.

Every year there are fewer of them, they move more slowly, but their pride and memories of serving on the USS Utah - and surviving its watery death - remain as sharp as if nearly 68 years have not passed.

Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and Iraq War veteran who is being processed for discharge after coming out of the closet on national television, was one of several panelists at a Hinckley Institute Forum on the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy at the University of Utah Wednesday.

As young Heather Fields of Park City sat patiently with her mother backstage at the USANA Amphitheatre waiting for her hero, country superstar Brad Paisley, to arrive before his concert, one couldn't help but notice the purple band wrapped around her head.

Terry and Susan Wood lost their jobs last December as co-anchors at KTVX Channel 4, and now are on the verge of losing their unemployment insurance benefits because new jobs are hard to come by in this drawn-out recession.

Two local skate park riders are competing this weekend as the Dew Tour makes its annual stop at Energy Solutions Arena.

The hearing was held before 2nd District Court Judge Jon Memmott, who signed a no-contact order prohibiting Ferguson from contacting the alleged victim.

A West Point home was a total loss following a fire Saturday. It was the second time in two days firefighters were dispatched from the North Davis Fire District to the home, located in the 300 North block of 5000 West.

The good news is people were waiting in line to have their car seats checked. The bad news is nearly 90 percent of people still don't install them properly.

It's a tough time to ask people for money, but that's exactly what two of Utah's largest and fastest-growing school districts will do in November.

Chris Burningham, who commutes between his home in Clearfield and his job at the University of Utah, praises the convenience of a new bus route introduced by the Utah Transit Authority on Monday.

A West Point woman has pleaded guilty to attempted desecration of a human body after the body of her newborn was found inside a small cooler in the trunk of her car.

Stephanie Ludene Hulmston pleaded guilty Thursday to a class A misdemeanor for putting the body of a newborn inside a small cooler and placing it in the trunk of her car.

Standard-Examiner staff FARMINGTON - A 37-year-old Syracuse woman has been charged Monday with four counts of forcible sexual abuse after deputies found her at a local park with a teenage girl on Sunday.

Kachunga and the alligators are one of the big attractions at the Davis County Fair.

Matthew James Day claims to be remorseful about driving the car from which a passenger fired a fatal shot on Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City in January.

Our daughter who lives in Syracuse infomed us that she never received the birthday card containing money that we had mailed to her.

The activities at the Pioneer Skills and Crafts Day drew more than 500 people to Fort Buenventura on Friday.