Tooele News

Authorities have confirmed that 11 World War II-era cartridges discovered during the environmental cleanup of Deseret Chemical Depot contain liquid blister agent.

A Ford Explorer traveling east bound on I-80 drifted off the left side of the freeway around 6:30 a.m., near mile marker 88, according to Joe Dougherty, public information officer for the Utah Department of Public Safety.

The boy was watching his father mow the grass from the window of his house on Rose Springs Road about 6:30 p.m., when he apparently fell through the screen and into the window well, about a 10- to 12-foot drop, according to the Tooele County Sheriff's Office.

A man who got out of his pickup truck on I-80 near Tooele was hit by a semi-truck. Utah Highway Patrol said the man was driving eastbound on I-80 near mile post 6 around 2:30 a.m. when his vehicle came to a complete stop in the right lane.

Tooele a With cash flow evaporating in this sprawling county's budget, Tooele County commissioners voted Tuesday to change the structure of retiree medical benefits.

A four door sedan swerved off a Texas road and over a large paved shoulder before hitting Elder Michael Garver from Tooele as he walked over a gravel area.

An LDS Church missionary serving in the Texas San Antonio mission is recovering from injuries Monday after being struck from behind by a vehicle as he was walking with his bicycle.

A 7-year-old girl was killed Sunday afternoon when the all-terrain vehicle she was riding hit a tree in Tooele County.

At the head of the roughly 80-strong crowd, Jennifer Larkin walked with a gaggle of young children.

Phuong Sheffer, a diabetic educator, talks to Murphy Yazzie, left, about his diet at the Fourth Street Clinic in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 9, 2013.

Bonnie Devinney A Pocatello, Idaho, woman was arrested after allegedly hitting another woman in the face with a brick.On April 26 Tooele City Police responded to a fight near 500 West and Utah Avenue where they found a female victim with injuries to her face.

Students at Tooele Applied Technology College walked into a new world last week.The new $15.5 million TATC building at 88 S. Tooele Boulevard opened its doors to students on May 1. The structure features 74,000 square feet."We've been waiting for this for years," said Scott Snelson, TATC campus president.

Our beloved husband, father and brother, James V. Skinner, passed away May 3 at Davis Medical Center ICU after a brief devastating illness.

Despite having their building gutted by fire last week, Tooele Gun Club members clamored together to have business as usual just days later.John Miller, president of the club, said despite the loss of the building, the club was determined not to miss more than one regular shoot."All we need is electricity for the [clay pigeon-throwing] machines," ... (more)

Isaac Aveytua A Tooele man has been sentenced to prison for taking sexually explicit photos of a child.Isaac Aveytua, 42, was sentenced last Tuesday in 3rd District Court to an indeterminate term of one to 15 years in the Utah State Prison, as well as another year for a separate case to run consecutive to that term.

Willard Richard sings at the National Day of Prayer Thursday afternoon. Since 1988, the National Day of Prayer takes place during the first Thursday of every May.

Food Pioneers My buddy Steve Auerbach, director at the nonprofit MusicGarage, alerted me to an interesting business located in the MusicGarage building: Urban Pioneer Foods .

Following a mostly sunny and warm weekend, forecasters Monday expected cloudy skies and possible rain all along the Wasatch Front.

Locations in Tooele, Spanish Fork, Logan, Vernal and Park City already are open on Sundays, as are all Cafe Rio Mexican Grills outside of Utah.

Ma Nature has a reward for northern Utahns who spent this past week's mornings chilled, shivering and shaking - a return to more typical spring weather this weekend.