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Wednesday Feb 8 | KSL-TV

Man suffered medical complications during 9-hour standoff

ST. GEORGE &#8212 Jeff Dial, communications manager for the Washington County 911 dispatch center, died Tuesday morning after suffering undisclosed medical complications during a 9-hour standoff Monday near Hurricane.

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Related Topix: St. George, UT

Tue Feb 07, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

Skull fragment could belong to Scout missing for 50 years

Police hope a skull fragment found in the Virgin River will confirm the death of a Boy Scout who disappeared in a flash flood more than 50 years ago.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Flood, Springdale, UT

Mon Feb 06, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

I-15 closure due to standoff expected to last into evening

An 11-mile stretch of Interstate 15 in Washington County was closed for several hours and a school put into lockdown Monday due to a police standoff.

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Related Topix: Toquerville, UT, Hurricane, UT

Salt Lake Tribune

I-15 closed in Washington County due to standoff

Drivers on southbound and northbound Interstate 15 are being detoured onto State Road 9 and State Road 17 due to a police standoff.

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Related Topix: Toquerville, UT, Hurricane, UT

Salt Lake Tribune

Utah man dies in Washington County collision

Craig V. Thygerson was eastbound on State Road 59 near Apple Valley about 3:20 p.m. Friday when his 1994 Geo Prizm crossed the center line into oncoming traffic in the westbound lane, the Utah Highway Patrol reported in a news release.

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Related Topix: St. George, UT

Sun Feb 05, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

Evictions avoided after polygamous sect leaders make tax payments

Polygamous sect leaders have paid nearly half of past-due property taxes owed on its state-controlled property trust, avoiding possible evictions and tax sales.

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Related Topix: FLDS, Religion, Hildale, UT

Thu Feb 02, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

Bills to repeal guest-worker law, driving card emerge

Sen. Steve Urquhart is making good on a promise to push the repeal of key immigration reforms and Friday will publicly unveil bills to scrap the state's guest worker law and the driving privilege card.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, US Governors, Gary Herbert

Wed Feb 01, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

St. George trainer collapses during sex case sentencing

A St. George personal fitness trainer who had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old client collapsed Tuesday as a judge sentenced her to prison.

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Related Topix: St. George, UT

Examiner.com

Justice for cruel starvation of puppy

Washington County, UT: In 2011, 26-year-old Lace Walker gave a not guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty.

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Fri Jan 27, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

Can St. George (and Utah) afford a Lake Powell pipeline?

The Salt Lake Tribune) Washington County Water Conservancy District General Manager Ron Thompson's St.

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Related Topix: Utah, St. George, UT

Tue Jan 24, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

Utah senator pushes for data on intergenerational poverty

The state already knows that about one-third of adults who receive some form of public aid grew up in families that also received government assistance.

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Related Topix: Utah, San Juan County, UT

Utah Business

The New CROSSFIT 435 Arrives

The new CROSSFIT 435 has finally arrived in St. George, Washington, Hurricane and all surrounding areas as of January 2nd.

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Related Topix: CrossFit, Fitness, Hurricane, UT

Utah Business

Sandstone Village Getting Fast Subs

Jimmy Johns signed a lease for 1800 SF in Sandstone Village, which is anchored by TJ Max in St.

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Related Topix: St. George, UT, Cedar City, UT

Mon Jan 23, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

Restraining order made permanent in polygamous schoolhouse case

A judge has granted a permanent restraining order barring polygamous sect leaders loyal to Warren Jeffs from a large school building used as a church by followers of a rival prophet.

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Related Topix: FLDS, Religion, Hildale, UT

Fri Jan 20, 2012

Deseret News

Shurtleff deputy John Swallow enters Utah attorney general's race

"My goal as attorney general will be to run this office as a law firm based on my experience as a litigation partner in my firm and to not perhaps be quite as involved in driving the policy as my predecessor," Swallow said.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Mike Lee, Jim Matheson, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Utah, Healthcare Law, Law, Immigration Reform

Tue Jan 17, 2012

Deseret News

Valerie Phillips: Utah brother and sister get creative with peanut butter

Sailor Mylroie, 10, and West Mylroie, 8, of Santa Clara, Washington County, are both competing for a $25,000 college fund.

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Related Topix: Recipes, Life, Food, Meat, Chicken, Avocado

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