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Crews resumed their attack on the 397-acre Water Tower Fire at dawn Monday, making rapid progress toward hemming in the Utah County blaze.
“It’s pretty quiet [with] not a lot of smoke out there.” Fire Information Officer Shayne Warn said.

After the manager of a Las Vegas Carl’s Jr. was shot to death during a 1994 robbery, a half-dozen witnesses told police they saw a man who was about 6 feet tall and weighed approximately 200 pounds fleeing the fast-food restaurant.

One teenage suspect in two weekend convenience store armed robberies had been caught as of Monday, but Unified Police continued to hunt for his two accomplices.
Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke said The holdups occurred within 12 minutes of each other on Sunday. The first was at a 7-Eleven store in Milcreek, 2287 E. 3300 South, about 10:35 p.m. It was followed by another at 10:47 p.m.

On his way out of town and into a new job as Moab’s police chief, former Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder had one thing he wanted to talk about — jail beds.
Winder’s tenure as sheriff was marked with jail crowding, which led to contention with police who said restrictions at the jail were hampering crime fighting efforts.
In his final interview as head of the county’s jails, bailiffs at the courthouses and the Unified Police Department, Winder refused to veer from his belief that the county s...

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A 3-year-old boy who died Saturday after being left in a vehicle for about an hour at a Las Vegas vacation village resort was from Utah, according to a Nevada TV station.
KSNV News in Las Vegas reported the boy has been identified as Chase Lee of Fillmore.
The Clark County coroner has said the manner and cause of death are pending, the station also reported.
The incident at The Grandview was reported about 4:50 p.m., KSNV said. The station said the temperature at 4 p.m. was 114 degrees and inves...

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Daggett County’s jail has remained empty — a consequence of employee misconduct — for so long that officials are wondering whether it makes sense to reopen it, even though it has been a large local employer in the state’s least populous county.
The state for years paid the county to house its prisoners.

The human-caused Water Tower fire near Alpine has spread to an estimated 300 to 500 acres Sunday morning.
The fire forced the precautionary evacuation of 25 homes early Sunday morning, but no structures have been damaged, according to tweets from Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest officials.
This story will be updated.
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Unified Police are investigating the drive-by or walk-by shooting that killed a 25-year-old woman Sunday morning in Magna.
The shooting occurred at 8360 West Mix Avenue, according to Unified Police tweets. Three people inside the home were detained for questioning related to the shooting.
Multiple shots were fired, but no other homes were hit. The identity of the victim has not been released.
This story will be updated.

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When Heather and Benjamin Sessions exchanged wedding vows at the Salt Lake Temple in 2003, they knew they were ready to spend the rest of their lives together. But they also knew that they were not yet ready to have children.
The couple worked long hours in the years after they married, Heather as a national sales manager for Verizon and Benjamin as a case manager for an insurance company. It wasn’t until last year, when they’d progressed in their careers and had saved up a nest egg, that they...