Magna News

When the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office splinters into a stand-alone police department next year, its patrol deputies could escape the 2.75 percent pay cut now hanging over thousands of county employees.

Freebie number one: It's a freebie that might save your life this Hallowen. "AAA" is offering their free "tipsy tow" service to anyone whose been drinking and needs a lift...they'll even tow your car home along with you.

On Wednesday Oct. 21 Cyprus High School's PTA hosted an open house endorsing a bond initiative from the Granite School District that will appear on the ballot this coming election day.

On November 3 residents of Magna will be voting for a new board of trustees for the Magna Water District.

NASA's new Ares 1-X test vehicle on Oct. 26, 2009 is reflected in a pond at launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center inA Florida.A The rocket is designed to replace NASA's aging space shuttle fleet.

A 21-year-old Magna man who joined in the beating of three people near Ensign Peak last year -- an attack Salt Lake City police have called a hate crime -- pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced charge.

For the first time in more than a quarter century, a new vehicle is sitting at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A brilliant, compelling two-hour show by Bob Dylan and His Band was derailed Monday by a frustrating Magna venue that showed that it isn't capable of accommodating serious music fans.

Heaving a sigh >> The worst-case scenario, it turns out, may not be all that bad.

MAGNA, Utah a ' A man is in jail after threatening a customer with a gun during a gas station altercation.

The unincorporated enclave of Granite will remain intact for now -- and maybe forever -- after a successful petition drive placing the east-bench burb's future on the 2010 ballot.

A Salt Lake County sheriff's sergeant arrested a man who walked into a Magna high school with a toy gun and claimed he was a police officer Tuesday.

Scott and Michelle Cloward have been participating in our Itty Bitty Salt Lake City contest for more than a decade, so long that the son they used to push in a stroller as they looked for clues is now getting ready to drive.

Amy Sheddon, center, delivers freshly cooked Colosimo sausage into the spaghetti sauce being stirred by the volunteers Saturday at Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in Magna.

Former Magna Times editor Colin Douglas outside the Magna Times building. Douglas became a passionate news gatherer in this west-side suburb and worked for more than four months without pay when the newspaper no longer had the advertising revenue to support him.

Jesse Santistevan hadn't planned to speak at his father's sentencing for murder.

The packed courtroom grew still as the 15-year-old boy approached the podium and began to talk to the judge about his murdered mother and his father, who would soon go to prison for her long-ago death.

One hundred percent of people questioned in a recent survey acknowledged there is a gang presence in West Valley City, Ogden, Orem, Logan and Salt Lake City's "central" region surrounding Liberty Park.

Dignitaries ranging from Mayor Peter Corroon, to students from Cyprus High School shovel dirt in the official groundbreaking of the new Magna library.

Magna Chamber hoping for a new direction from Salt Lake County Planning and Development As the steward for the business community on the West Bench, the Magna Chamber of Commerce is actively seeking out ways to improve business conditions in our community.