On a hot August day in front of federal and local nabobs, John Inglish invoked the mother of all appeals.

Two months after the original deadline, Broadweave announced early Saturday morning that their $40 million purchase of the iProvo fiber-optic network is complete.

A week after a 4-year-old Saratoga Springs boy was struck and killed by an underage driver, residents are saying the neighborhood's homeowners association is partly to blame.

There has been much scuttlebutt these days regarding what have become known as "designer" dogs. Designer dogs are created when two purebred dogs of different breeds are mated together. This is done as an effort to create offspring with all of the desirable traits of each of the two parent breeds. Although the concept is nothing new and has been around for generations, recognizing and labeling these dogs as designer is what is really new and has become quite a trend with puppies selling for more than purebred dogs in some instances.

"I'm up and going, but not going very fast."

11In 1852, William Gardner led a small group of men into that picturesque chasm. Its possibilities as an avenue of transportation evidently impressed them. That same year, the Utah Territorial Legislature sent a memorial to the United States Congress asking for the passage of a bill encouraging the construction of a railroad stretching from the East to the Pacific Ocean. The legislature recommended laying the rail into the Great Basin through Provo Canyon.

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An elderly Provo woman's Friday morning trip to physical therapy ended abruptly when her car crashed into the building.

Like hundreds of Utahns in the past month, Spanish Fork residents will be learning the hard way to watch out for pedestrians.

Daniel Dean Thompson, the owner of the now-defunct Flix Club edited movie store, was sentenced on Friday to serve 44 days in jail and 119 days with an ankle monitor.

• SEXUAL ABUSE -- An American Fork man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of sexually abusing two children. According to police reports, the man was arrested after a girl told police he had sexually abused her. Upon questioning, the man admitted to the abuse and told officers similar abuse had taken place at least seven times. The man also admitted to abusing another girl seven years ago. The suspect was booked into the Utah County Jail on 12 charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony. Bail was set at $100,000 cash.