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Bicyclist completes solo ride of entire Pony Express Trail

RENO, NV. (AP) — Jan Bennett endured food poisoning, hail and near misses with tornado weather on her solo bicycle ride across the entire 2,220-mile Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, ...

Utah Shooting Survivor Named Homecoming Queen by Classmates

LOGAN, UT. (AP) — A Utah high school student who survived a gunshot wound to the head has been named homecoming queen by her classmates. The Herald Journal reported Monday that Deserae Turner was named the q...

Senior Citizens Raising Money for Charity with Bake Sales

CLEARFIELD, UT. (AP) — Residents at a Utah senior citizens' community have raised more than $22,000 for charity through bake sales. The Standard Examiner reports that a group gathers nearly every week to bak...

Music and Memory Brings Familiar Back to Dementia Patients

RAPID CITY, SD. | By TANYA MANUS, Rapid City Journal (AP) — Monty Stensland recalls his first date with his wife, Betty. She taught him a song, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain." After 68 years of marriage and ...

Man Organizes Hunting Event for Wheelchair Users

PROVO, UT. (AP) — A Utah man who has been in a wheelchair for more than three decades has created a pheasant hunt for people like him who need help getting into the outdoors. Clint Robinson broke his neck af...

Former Homeless Couple Gets Apartment, Adjusts to New Life

SALT LAKE CITY, UT. | By TAYLOR STEVENS, The Salt Lake Tribune (AP) — During the first few weeks Ron and Katherine Barrett spent in their new apartment on 300 East in downtown Salt Lake City, they slept with a ...

Utah Street Performer Finds Joy After Battling Homelessness

OREM, UT. (AP) — A chorus of honking, braking and speeding vehicles in Orem is often supplanted by the sound of a drum echoing through downtown. The source of the noise is a 6-foot-9 man wearing a "Free Hugs...

WWII Veteran Takes to the Air Again to Honor his Late Wife

MOUNTAIN GREEN, UT. (AP) — A World War II veteran mourning his wife of 73 years has honored her memory with a flight in a plane like he once flew over France and Germany. Bill Willis's wife, Julia, had alway...

A Utah WWII Veteran Turning 101 Gets Over 5,000 Birthday Cards

OREM, UT. (AP) — When John Frey's family requested 101 birthday cards to celebrate the World War II veteran's 101st birthday in Utah, they were expecting to get 500 at most. At a celebration on June 8, a day...

Family Asking for 101 Birthday Cards for WWII Vet’s Birthday

OREM, UT. | By KATIE ENGLAND, Daily Herald (AP) — John Frey sat in his room at the Bennion Veteran's Home in Payson, fiddling with the break mechanisms on his wheelchair. Even at 100 years old, Frey still focu...