12/31/09 Beginning Friday, the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office will stop writing traffic tickets. 12/31/09 It was a year of triumph, heartbreak and shame in the Southland. From the highs of Kobe Bryant and the Lakers bringing the NBA Championship back to Los Angeles, to the lows of Manny Ramirez getting busted for violating baseball's drug policy and Tiger Woods' dramatic fall from grace, 2009 will be remembered for its contrasts. 12/31/09 Logan Fire Department's Casey Crockett carries a couple of small children down Canyon Road as he and fellow firefighters evacuate homes across the street from the landslide. 12/31/09 Eight Utah State University students and one instructor die when the 15-passenger van they are traveling in back to Logan crashes in Box Elder County. Two other students were left fighting for their lives in area hospitals (see photo, top right). 12/31/09 LEOMINSTER -- When the Leominster 13-year-old Babe Ruth All-Star baseball team traveled to Murray, Utah, in August, it was a trip that was a long time coming. 12/31/09 The day after the world clock rolled over from 1999 to 2000, Nebraska rolled over Tennessee in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz.For the Vols, it was an inauspicious way to start the new century.In hindsight, it also could be interpreted as an omen that the coming decade would not be as prosperous for UT as the one just ended.There's one game left on the scorecard, tonight in the Chick-fil-A Bowl ... 12/31/09 One person suffered minor injuries in an four-car accident that closed portions of Interstate 15 for about two hours in North Salt Lake on Thursday afternoon, police said. 12/31/09 Beginning Friday, the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office will stop writing traffic tickets. 12/31/09 OGDEN -- Heavy snowfall and wind has resulted in considerable avalanche danger throughout Northern Utah's rugged backcountry. -- read more 12/31/09 The father of Rachael Runyan, a Utah girl whose 1982 abduction remains unsolved, has been charged with assault for driving his pickup into a building after allegedly becoming enraged over the death of a duck. 12/31/09 BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) - The father of a Utah girl who was abducted in 1982 has been charged with assault for allegedly driving his pickup into a building after becoming enraged over the death of a duck. Jeffrey Stephen Runyan was charged Wednesday in 1st District Court with aggravated assault, criminal mischief and several other misdemeanor traffic offenses. The 55-year-old was arrested Dec ... 12/31/09 Pittsburgh at Miami, 1 New England at Houston, 1 Indianapolis at Buffalo, 1 San Francisco at St. Louis, 1 Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 New Orleans at Carolina, 1 Jacksonville at Cleveland, 1 N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 1 Tennessee at Seattle, 4:15 Philadelphia at Dallas, 4:15 Washington at San Diego, 4:15 | 
