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(Cincinnati, Ohio) --The Kroger Company, which owns Smith's Food and Drug and other major grocery chains throughout the Intermountain West  is reportedly in merger talks with Albertstons, which also owns Safeway.  Bloomberg News reports their agreement could be reached this week, but no final decisions have been made yet.  Kroger ...

(Salt Lake City, UT)  --  Star Wars actor Mark Hamill is weighing in on Utah's U.S. Senate race.  He took to Twitter this week to retweet one of Evan McMullin's tweets.  He added that he likes Mullins so much that he wishes he lived in Utah so he could vote for him.  The Luke Skywalke...

(New York, NY)  --  Senator Mike Lee says fellow Utah Senator Mitt Romney needs to support his re-election campaign or risk keeping the Senate under Democratic control.  Lee appeared last night on Fox News and told host Tucker Carlson that Romney needs to "get on board" and issue an endorsement of his campaign.  Polling indi...

(St George, UT)  -  At least one person is hurt following a car crash in St. George Tuesday night.  Authorities say it happened at Sunset Boulevard and Dixie Drive at about 9:30 p.m.  A witness told St George News they saw the white Ford pick-up run the light and hit a white passenger four-door.  The woman who was...

By Bryan Hyde Ever get the feeling that you’ve been cast, against your will, in the world’s largest reality TV show?  Before we can remove ourselves from the contrived drama, we first have to understand how we got there. This has a lot to do with how much media we consume on a daily basis.  Television pr ...

(St. George, UT) -- The Washington County Sheriff's Office says they've identified the body found Anasazi Road as 36-year-old Lewis Russell of Ivins. According to a press release from the Sheriff's Office, detectives discovered Russell deceased on the ground next to a red pickup truck that was stolen from the construction business about a half mile down Anasazi Road...

(St. George, UT)  --  A St. George man is being placed on probation after admitting to attacking another man.  A judge agreed to put Riley Trey Ballard on probation after he took a plea deal earlier this year. This comes after a man accused Ballard and three others of stomping his head into the concrete while jumping him.  Ballard was ...

(St. George, UT) -- The Director of the Greater Zion Convention & Tourism Office will resign, effective November 16. In a letter, Kevin Lewis said he will become President and CEO of a dynamic destination marketing organization in Southeast Washington. Le...

By Bryan Hyde One of the most important lessons we can learn in life is that no one is coming to our rescue. That’s why it’s so important that we learn to accept responsibility for our own lives as early as possible.  A lot of people seem to have acquired a long-term habit of avoiding accountability as a way of avoiding punishment.  Or they find ...

(Ivins, UT) -- The Washington County Sheriff's Office says they responded to a report of a possible burglary at a construction yard south of Ivins off Anasazi Road. As deputies were responding, employees of the company located some stolen property near the yard where a 36 year old male was laying on the ground, deceased, under suspicious circumstances...