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Utah State University scientists are on the lookout for a fungus that might help in the fight against Mormon crickets.

School teachers face a tough choice in these lean budget times: stay and suffer financially, or leave the job they love.

Utah's summer fruit crops took a hit from all those storms in June. Farmers say the heavy rains and some hail damaged fruit that was ready for harvest or close to it.

The biggest target of 19th century anti-Mormons was not the Book of Mormon. "The real issue was that Mormonism was a religion that professed to be constantly engaged with the supernatural world," said Christopher James Blythe, a graduate student in the history department at Utah State University.

Somewhere among the beakers and the bubbling green-tinged tanks in this Utah State University lab, Jeff Muhs is searching for champion pond scum for Uncle Sam.If he and others like him around the country are successful, algae-based biofuel could one day power one of the world's biggest gas guzzlers: the U.S. military.Heady stuff for a simple ...

Memorial services will be held at a later date at his home. Mr. Sheffield was born Feb.

PRINCIPAL Lecturer. Uintah Basin Campus. The Department of Engineering Technology & Education at Utah State University- Uintah Basin Regional Campus is accepting applications for a Lecturer.

Along with the start of the state's fiscal year, 31 pieces of legislation passed by Utah lawmakers last winter spring to life today.

Farmers who routinely pray for rain are cursing a recent torrent that has destroyed fruit crops in Utah.

Salt Lake County Councilman Jeff Allen is calling again for the county to see how much it could get selling South Mountain Golf Club.

A firefighter suffered burns to the face while responding to a vehicle fire Sunday at a laundromat near Utah State University.

An ambitious director might look at Mitch Halligan's property and see an instant B-movie classic: "Invasion of the Grasshoppers." The place is overrun with the greasy little bugs.

Kathy and Roger Cook of Clinton announce the engagement of their daughter Heather Noel of Philadelphia to Joseph Ricca of Bensalem, Pa.

It hasn't been difficult for Kevin Christensen to find enough singers to perform in his newly launched cabaret shows.

Augustina Villegas labels surge protectors in one of the final steps of completion at EFI Electronics that makes industrial surge protectors to guard sensitive equipment against spikes in electricity.

Parley and Orson Pratt and Nineteenth-Century Mormon Thought Public Symposium at Brigham Young University July 2, 2009 B092 of the Joseph F. Smith Building at BYU In the tradition of Richard Bushmana s summer seminars on Joseph Smith and early Mormonism, eight graduate students, under the direction of Terryl Givens and Matthew Grow, have studied ...

A task force put together by the Utah Higher Education Board of Regents is expected to make a recommendation soon on whether a proposed merger between Utah State University and the College of Eastern Utah is feasible, and if so, how it should be done.

ST. GEORGE - Margaret Louise Coleman, age 91, passed away on Monday, June 22, 2009 in St.

In 1947, 10 years before Russia successfully launched the first rockets into space, scientists and engineers from Utah were among those working toward a similar goal in the New Mexico desert.

The 130,000 square miles of deep river-cut canyons and exposed wind-scoured arches, the section of the earth that in Utah is called the Plateau Province, is as big a puzzle to geologists as it is awesome to any human interloper captured by the vistas of its environs.