Pleasant Grove News

Lawmakers are working to make a change after learning the 1 percent local restaurant tax isn't taking from tourists as was intended.

Investigators remained very tight-lipped Wednesday, two days after a retired BYU professor was killed inside his home.

They were two men who worked hard, brought joy to their families and showed compassion to strangers.

After two years of working on his Eagle Scout project and dealing with setbacks, including a holdup in the Supreme Court, Tom Smith can finally begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Since the Utah Department of Transportation began detours around the portion of Pleasant Grove State Street between Geneva Road and 200 South, business at local hangout the Purple Turtle has been the pace of well a turtle.

Traffic going south on I-15 came to a halt Thursday morning when a semitrailer hauling barrels of hay caught fire near the Pleasant Grove Blvd.

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Eight high temperature records were set in Utah on Thursday as unseasonably warm air dominated the north.

Sixth grade students from the Renaissance Academy in Lehi participate in a space simulation on the shuttle U.S.S. Voyager NCC-1990 at the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center Wednesday November 4, 2009.

According to the seller : Remember those days, as a child, when you pretended to be a daring captain of a starship? Or when you pretended to be the brave crew? Why pretend? The USS Galileo, from Alpine School District's Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center in Pleasant Grove, is now up for sale.

Utah County Police chased a bull on the loose Wednesday afternoon. Pleasant Grove police officer Kevin Carson and animal control officer Sandy Sargent faced a "long" morning after chasing the bull.

Religious faith persuaded an alleged getaway driver in a bank robbery to surrender to police nearly a year after the crime, police said.

Police had all but given up on finding the suspects who robbed an Orem bank last year, until one man stepped forward, apparently for religious reasons.

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah - A runaway bull smashed three police cars and an animal control officer's truck before it was shot as it approached a Utah interstate.

Orem, Utah-based Avinti --now a part of M86 Security--has been granted a patent for an invention by two Utah inventors, according to M86 Security.

A BYU student died in a longboarding accident after reaching 35 miles per hour down a hill in Pleasant Grove last Thursday.

As Mayor Mike Daniels steps down, City Councilmen Bruce Call and Jeffery D. Wilson are vying for the job.

Fall corn works well here, it is just a shorter season than when it is planted in the spring.

The Spectrum reports arrests for felony crimes, compound misdemeanors and warrants carrying a bail of at least $750. All arrest information is taken from the jail booking log and police reports.

Marcayla Weidenbacher and her medical necklace at her home Tuesday, October 6 2009 in West Valley City.