Woods Cross News

A successful DUI checkpoint nabbed several drunk drivers in Bountiful over the weekend.

Drivers in Davis County are being put on notice. The Utah Highway Patrol and at least 10 other police agencies are taking advantage of a federal grant to enforce speed limits from neighborhoods to major roadways.

Bountiful police are conducting a DUI checkpoint Saturday night to keep impaired drivers off the road.

Eric Jergensen is battling not only a serious challenger for his Avenues Salt Lake City Council seat, but also personal financial troubles.

A Salt Lake City councilman says two bench warrants for his arrest have been cleared.

A judge has issued a bench warrant for a Salt Lake City councilman for failing to appear in court for two hearings earlier this year.

A recent proposal to add a blended-use zone to city ordinances was the subject of debate at a recent city council meeting.

After five years of stone walls, metal bars and locked doors in prison, David Valken-Leduc says walking the sidewalk as a free man is almost "surreal." "It's just overwhelming - I feel almost lost," Valken-Leduc said Wednesday.

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Tuesday afternoon prosecutors agreed to vacate his 2004 conviction in the Motel 6 murder case.

One of the longest-running year-round schools in the state is changing to a traditional schedule with summer vacation.

The Bountiful Rotary Club and Burt Brother's tires are hosting their annual Coats for Kids event in Bountiful by "Cruisin' the Boulevard". Thousands are out for the two day event, and though it's free to the public all that attend can help raise money for the Coats for Kids Foundation.

Representatives from a local auto auction operation and the city's planning and zoning commission faced off in a public hearing recently.

Woods Cross Mayor Kent Parry said Tuesday's meeting with Silver Eagle Refinery officials was the first positive step the two entities have made since a January fire at the refinery.

Casey Wardell , of Woods Cross, joins other members of the Utah Jobs with Justice organization as they protest outside the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce offices Wednesday.

With a cluck, cluck here and a cluck, cluck there, the Stenquists' chickens don't go much of anywhere.

Private negotiations broke down this week between the Attorney General's Office and the appellate attorney for a man convicted of the 1996 Woods Cross Motel 6 murder.

A South Davis group proposing the construction of a $1.5 million museum is looking for immediate funding approval from the Davis County Tourism Tax Advisory Board.

By Wendy Green Standard-Examiner correspondent WOODS CROSS - The city council will soon define ordinances related to residential chicken ownership.

A Hill Air Force Base official wants South Davis Metro Fire and its new mobile command unit to provide centralized dispatch for the on-base Open House Air Show June 6- 7. What Col.