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Consumer confidence takes surprising turn up in August

the associated press
Updated Aug 31, 2010 09:53AM MDT
New York • Americans’ confidence in the economy improved slightly in August, although the mood is still gloomy amid job worries, according to a monthly survey.
The surprise jump gave stocks a modest lift, but gains were kept in check as investors remain cautious about the strength of the economy.

VERNAL — An FBI supervisor from Salt Lake City met with Vernal police and Uintah County prosecutors late last week to...

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A Roman Catholic diocese in Pennsylvania has begun the process to defrock a priest whose dalliances with a teenage girl were videotaped by her parents. She later gave birth to a daughter. ...

Three crew members died early Tuesday when the medical helicopter they were aboard crashed in central Arkansas as they traveled to pick up a traffic accident victim.

The Utah Department of Transportation is defending the way it reacted to the discovery of a tombstone at a construction site on I-15. But the woman who dug it up thinks otherwise.

PROMONTORY, Box Elder County — More than 20 miles west of Corinne, Box Elder County, with a hint of fall in the morning...

A pistol-packing grandmother in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again.

ATK tests solid rocket motor near Promontory

By Sheena McFarland
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated Aug 31, 2010 11:25AM MDT
Promontory • The crisp air carrying the promise of fall quickly burned away under the flames shooting from the Ares Development Motor at the ATK facility near this rural, desert town.
The sound from the engine, which was secured to the ground and stretches from the end zone to the 50-yard line of a football field, roared through the desolate desert air.