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Josh Powell last week suffered a setback in his quest to regain custody of his two children from his in-laws, Chuck and Judy Cox. A Washington state judge ruled the husband of missing West Valley City woman Susan Cox Powell must undergo a Psycho-Sexual Evaluation by a court-appointed examiner in light of explicit images found on a computer taken from the Powells’ West Valley City home during a 2009 police search. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Kathryn J. Nelson ruled Charlie, 7, and Braden,...

A minor earthquake struck north-central Utah Saturday morning, its epicenter located about 7 miles east of the Utah Valley community of Woodland Hills and under the Wasatch Mountain Range. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations noted that the 3.7-magnitude temblor was felt not only in Woodland Hills but the neighboring communities of Salem, Spanish Fork and Provo. However, no injuries or property damage were reported. The quake registered on monitors at 4:27 a.m. MST and had a depth of abou...

Firefighters were hopping early Friday, first rushing to the scene of a three-alarm blaze that heavily damaged the Pioneer Sawdust Co. plant and several, smaller adjacent businesses in west Salt Lake City, and moments later responding to an apartment fire downtown. Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Scott Freitag said the plant fire — which consumed much of the one-acre site’s structures, sawdust products, vehicles and equipment — was under investigation as “obviously suspicious” in origi...