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WASHINGTON -- Government health regulators recommended adding label precautions about neurological problems seen in children who have taken flu drugs made by Roche and GlaxoSmithKline.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday released its safety review of Roche's Tamiflu and Glaxo's Relenza.

As you and millions of other Americans go to bed tonight, your kidneys will be kicking into overdrive. Turkey, yams, pie. It all has to be sent through the body's filter if you don't want to die of a nasty backup of toxic material. Few people know the feeling of having traitorous kidneys, and fewer still are as gratefully aware of a healthy kidney as BYU professor Diana McGuire.

Riding high to bed ridden

In 1968, in a small community

First rain and sleet fell, then the temperature dropped and it started to snow. Thanksgiving weekend 2005 was wet, cold and dangerous. The roads were covered in sheets of black ice when BYU senior Katie Renville and her mother were heading to Provo so Renville could return to school after the holiday break.

On Interstate 15 their Jeep rolled after hitting black ice.

Twelve-foot-high crosses honoring deceased Utah troopers along state highways are not an illegal public endorsement of religion, a judge said.

U.S. District Judge David Sam said the 14 crosses communicate a secular message.

"Even classic religious symbols may have various meanings and purposes depending on their context," he said Tuesday.

This is the time of year when the storied rivalry between BYU and Utah reaches a boiling point, and vendors looking to make a few bucks at the schools' expense know how to make the most of it.

• THE RIVALRY between Brigham Young University and the University of Utah is as heated as ever, but that's not keeping the two schools from joining forces to fight counterfeit team merchandise.

COUNTYWIDE

• Organizations working to provide holiday assistance to Utah County residents can crosscheck their information with United Way of Utah County Sub for Santa to find out if those applying for help through their programs are receiving help elsewhere.

NEW YORK -- Donny Osmond has apologized to Larry King for criticizing the CNN talk-show host after he revealed that Marie Osmond's 16-year-old son had entered rehab.

"I was very upset about it," the 49-year-old singer said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC's "Today" show.

For 20 years, Utah has stayed under its spending cap, garnering awards for fiscal restraint and wise planning. But a blistering economy and the massive surpluses that come with it are making it surprisingly difficult to budget.

For the 2008 legislative session, which begins Jan.

After working for two years at an investment bank in New York, Hannah Huegel was ready to trade Manhattan for the mountains.

She chose Utah, joining tens of thousands of others from across the country who contributed to the largest population increase in state history.

Between July 2006 and July 2007, Utah's population grew by 84,425 to nearly 2.7 million, according to figures released Thursday by the state's population estimates committee.

The next time you talk to a cop in American Fork, remember to smile. You're on camera.

EHS Inc., a Spanish Fork company that specializes in communications equipment for law enforcement and military personnel, is touting its latest product, the VIDMIC, a microphone and video camera combination that clips onto the front of an officer's uniform.

The device is one of a kind, with nothing else like it on the market, said Mike

Utah college student body presidents are uniting to get state legislators to drop the sales tax on text books.

The student leaders, including Summer Price from Brigham Young University and Utah Valley State College student body president Kris Coles, gathered at the state Capitol on Wednesday to support a proposed bill to exempt textbooks from the tax.

The statewide ban on diapered kids in pools has been lifted.

Since the beginning of June, 1,912 cases of cryptosporidiosis have been reported statewide. But in the last three weeks, there have been only six additional cases.

Cryptosporidium is a parasite that causes long-lasting, often debilitating, diarrhea that is traditionally transmitted from fecal matter in swimming pools.