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Our beloved father, grandfather, and great-grandfather Wilbur LaMar Payton passed away peacefully due to natural causes Wednesday 7, 2014 surrounded by his children. He was 75 years old.read more

A Dallas hardware store owner isn't surprised when new customers have their feathers ruffled over the shop's mascot. The AP's John Mone explains why a rooster has people flying into this particular coop.

You may have seen the recent Forbes list of "America's Most Livable Cities." Ogden, of all the places in America, ranked No. 2. For those of us who work and live in Ogden and surrounding area there is little doubt that this is the case; in fact, many of us feel slighted that we weren't No. 1.

OGDEN -- The weather was appropriately wet for the Ogden Nature Center's Hooked on Fish Wild Wednesday program as AmeriCorps naturalist intern Brianne Hanson led the class in a lesson on Utah's fish and the birds that eat them.read more

The Golden Spike in Utah completed the transcontinental railroad 145 years ago on May 10, 1869. However, one of the Ogden area's most dastardly of train robberies actually happened almost 42 years later and more recently than most Hollywood versions of the Wild West portray -- just over 103 years ago, on Jan. 2, 1911.read more

 The Ogden School Foundation has announced that author Neil Gaiman will speak during the district's annual Fall Author Event. Gaiman is the award-winning author of numerous bestselling novels for both children and adults, including "Coraline," "The Ocean at the End of the Lane," "The Graveyard Book," "Stardust" and many others. The event will be held Nov. 13 at the Ogden Eccles Conference Center.  

Rody Jo Glover-Hufstetler passed away on May 5, 2014 of natural causes. She was born in Phoenix Arizona in 1961 to Shirley and Roy Glover. She had two siblings, Dorothy Harder and Daniel Glover.read more

The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, May 4, 2014. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. read more

AMMAN, Jordan -- Two journalists in Jordan having a televised debate about the civil war in neighboring Syria literally turned -- and overturned -- the table on each other during an on-air brawl. The speakers broke apart the studio's table they had been seated in an attempt to fight each other.read more