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An injured Mount Timpanogos emergency services volunteer was rescued by helicopter after a 100-foot weekend tumble forced him to spend a cold night in a high-elevation snow field.
Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the 25-year-old Heber City man, a member of the Timpanogos Emergency Response Team, slid and fell while checking conditions along an Aspen Grove area trail about 5:20 p.m.

Navy veteran Carl Callahan and his wife, Shannon, receive about $1,600 in Social Security benefits each month.
They use it to pay rent and utilities on their South Salt Lake apartment, which the Department of Veterans Affairs helped them find after a stint of homelessness two years ago. They use it to pay their cellphone bills and buy gas for the car. Sometimes they use it to pay medical bills for Shannon, who takes frequent trips to the hospital for her asthma.

A fire at a South Salt Lake apartment complex for low-income people displaced residents in 18 units on Sunday.
Battalion Chief Blaine Daimaru of the South Salt Lake Fire Department said the fire originated on a balcony at Villa Charmant, 3827 S. 300 East. Six apartments were damaged by the blaze, he said, and power had to be turned off in the 18 units, making them uninhabitable.
One person who had difficulty breathing and was taken to a hospital, Daimaru said.

Firefighters on Sunday continued working to contain the Brian Head Fire’s northern flank and to mop up areas on the southern flank where heat still existed.
As of Sunday morning, the blaze — which was sparked by a weed-burning effort on private land — remained at 71,571 acres and was 80 percent contained, according to fire authorities.
Helping to attack the southern Utah fire were 787 firefighters, five helicopters, 34 engines and four bulldozers.

A man who died Thursday night after being struck by a car in Weber County has been identified as 20-year-old Joshua Grant Nichols, of West Haven.
Nichols was hit while walking on 5100 South near 3450 South at 10:53 p.m. Thursday, according to Weber County sheriff’s Sgt. Matt Jensen. The street is the border between Hooper and West Haven.
The rural street is not well lit and Nichols was wearing dark clothes, Jensen said.

A suspect was arrested Sunday after a shooting in a West Valley City backyard that left one man dead and another wounded.
The victim was identified by police as 35-year-old Jason Bull, of West Valley City.
The suspect, Marshall Herron, 36, was booked into jail on suspicion of murder, according to a West Valley City Police Department news release.
Officers responded about 2:15 a.m.

Despite the heat, they came dressed in leathers, many hoisting flags on the back of their bikes, to honor Utah’s fallen law enforcement officers.
This was the inaugural Utah 1033 Ride, named after the foundation that provides financial support to families who’ve lost a loved one in the line of duty. The ride, escorted by members of Utah’s police forces, wended its way from Harley-Davidson Salt Lake to Deer Valley Resort’s Snow Park Lodge, where Shante Johnson — the widow of Draper police Sgt.

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Several mineral-rich eastern Utah counties banded together a few years ago to build costly commodity-moving projects needed by extractive industries to tap underground resources and get them to market.
Utah’s isolation puts energy development at a competitive disadvantage, so, these county officials argue, the state should subsidize export terminals and rail, pipe and utility lines that help move Utah’s coal, oil, gas, power and potash.

The public will likely never know the impact of a $5.6 state million tax incentive offered to Amazon.com Inc., because unlike other states, Utah keeps the results secret.
Each year of the eight-year agreement, Amazon will set a benchmark for how many jobs it plans to create. It has committed to hiring 130 people at wages 10 percent above Salt Lake County’s annual average of $49,449.
At the end of the year, Amazon must prove to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) that it met th...