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Every year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals receives complaints about dogs who are left outside in the cold. Although they have fur coats, dogs and other animals can still suffer from frostbite, exposure and dehydration when water sources freeze.

Energy drinks have become immensely popular in recent years, especially with youth, but some health officials are working to restrict how the drinks are sold.

Pat Bird, prevention manager for the Utah County Division of Substance Abuse, said manufacturers have used misleading labeling to help sell energy drinks which contain alcohol.

Now that snow is falling, many Utahns are taking their skis and snowboards out of storage and heading up to the mountains. But as mom always said, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye -- or breaks a wrist.

The same snow that sends people to Utah's many ski resorts in droves always sends some to hospitals as well for a number of ailments.

Some death row inmates in Utah who are trying to appeal their sentences are having trouble finding attorneys to represent them, and the state Attorney General's Office is hoping that a proposed law will help alleviate the problem.

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's office has drawn up a proposed amendment to the Post-Conviction Remedies Act, the law that regulates, among other things, how much money attorneys can be paid when they agree to represent

A quick swab across the inside of a cheek and deoxyribonucleic acid comes out of the mouth on the end of a stick.

It doesn't look like much to the unaided eye, but DNA carries your unique biological code. Law enforcement has been using it as an identifier for more than a decade, claiming resolution of cold cases and the acquittals for the falsely imprisoned.

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Dismissing single strains of religion, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Thursday that the nation is a "symphony of faith."

Leaning heavily on the nation's history, Romney, a Republican, gave a speech pegged as his "JFK" moment where he could talk about his membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but distance himself from any church control.

Romney did invoke President Kennedy's speech of nearly 50 years

Tall and handsome, even the graying hair at the temples make Mitt Romney a physical leader.

He also has an easy speaking style and comes across as sincere with voters.

But how were his mechanics on Thursday as he delivered perhaps the most important speech of his political career?

"The impression that I got at the end was that he did well in relating to the audience's emotions," said Shiela Heindel, director of Forensics/Debate at UVSC.

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If you're looking for the right wedding gift for Stan Eggen and Tammy Wright, don't bother trying to find out where they're registered.

Eggen, a retired Provo police officer and founding member of the Utah County Major Crimes Task Force, and his fiance are forgoing presents for their Dec.

The devil's in the details, and county commissioners are finding themselves in minutiae hell as they sign off on cost overruns for the jail expansion, right down to the wiring for the toilets.

On Tuesday the commission unanimously approved an additional $30,000 for low-voltage wiring of the commodes, but not without first complaining that they would have rather voted the other way.

Utah County's population keeps growing and the sheriff's office is growing along with it. But it's the people who come here for the weekend, not the people who come here to live, who are fueling that law enforcement growth.

The Utah County Sheriff's Office has grown by nearly 100 employees since Sheriff Jim Tracy took over in 2003, a phenomenon that Tracy said is mostly due to increased use in the Utah County's canyons and other recreational

Utah County finally got a decent snowstorm; a boon for ski resorts, but a bother for motorists and Provo parade goers who watched the Christmas Parade in the snow.

The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings Saturday for the Uinta Mountains and the Wasatch Plateau.

Five years ago, Beth* was diagnosed with lung and liver cancer. Given six months to live, she watched as her husband left her.

"My ex-husband couldn't handle that," she said. "It resulted in a divorce that was really hard on my kids."

Instead of falling into depression, she embarked on round of chemotherapy that lasted an entire year and forced the cancer into remission.

Everything looked good until a year ago, when the cancer came roaring