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Big election year kicks off Friday
by Tim Gillie
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Politically, much can be decided by March filing week and local caucus meetings The biggest local election year in the past four years will kick off at 8 a.m. Friday morning with the opening of ...
SHS library to go public?
by Tim Gillie
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Stansbury High School staff and school district officials are looking at ways to open the library at the school for community use. Currently people in Stansbury Park and North Tooele County have l...
Gravel trucks taking toll on crumbling Mormon Trail Road
by Sarah Miley
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Heavy gravel truck traffic is taking a toll on Mormon Trail Road, leaving county officials to search for a way to fund repairs. The 19-mile road, which runs along the western edge of Tooele Valley...
Principals reshuffled at five district schools
by Tim Gillie
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Linares says unusual move designed to ease administative transition in upcoming year Five schools will be under new leadership next week after an unusual mid-year reshuffling of principals withi...
Tooele High School principal assaulted during parent-teacher conferences
by Scott Spjut
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Tooele High School Principal Bill Gochis was assaulted by an angry parent Tuesday night during parent-teacher conferences, according to Lt. Paul Wimmer of the Tooele City Police Department. The co...
Judge Pitt set to step down after 19 years
by Scott Spjut
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On May 16, Judge William Pitt of the Tooele County Justice Court will turn in his robe after 19 years behind the bench. State law requires justice court judges to retire at the age of 75, although...
School district’s top salaries beat public officials pay
by Tim Gillie
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Tooele County School District’s top 10 salary list reveals that school administrators are the best-paid public sector employees in the county, ahead of Tooele County and Tooele City officials. The...
Alleged drunk driver crashes into Tooele apartment complex
by Scott Spjut
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An alleged drunk driver crashed his pickup truck into the Tooele Gateway Apartments Sunday evening, causing structural damage to the building and displacing residents. Thirty-year-old Daryl Bratch...
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Tooele bats dormant against Syracuse
by Jake Gordon
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In weather that was more fitting for a football season opener, Tooele baseball opened the season on a cold and wet afternoon against Syracuse. Unfortunately for the Buffaloes, the offense didn’t ge...
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Planning commission gave hope in denying RMP power line project
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It’s been said that defeat comes not when your opponent actually beats you, but when you mentally surrender to the idea of losing as inevitable. That was a mistake reportedly made by several of the...
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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. New York City has agreed to pay up to $657 million to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero rescue and response workers who say they were sickened by World Trade Center dust. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool)AP - After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.


Thu Mar 11 19:55:04 -0600 2010

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in   Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP - He was raised in New Jersey, where he was on the high school wrestling team and earned a black belt in karate. Nearly a decade later, Sharif Mobley is a former nuclear plant worker under arrest in Yemen, suspected of being an al-Qaida member and accused of killing a guard in an attempt to break out of a hospital.


Thu Mar 11 20:14:51 -0600 2010
AP - An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been overcharging the city, including billing for theater tickets and a flight to Las Vegas, an internal investigation found.
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