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SALT LAKE CITY — Here are 10 local stories you may have missed this weekend. As always, click on the headline to read the full story.
Missing girls found in Pleasant Grove
Two girls missing since 2014 were found Sunday morning in Pleasant Grove. Their mother was booked into jail, according to the Orem Police Department.
Danielle and Sydney Wolferts disappeared in Orem in May, 2014.
Anonymous donor pays $25K to cover rent for entire apartment complex
An anonymous donor paid the rent for every tenant of an affordable housing complex in Newpark. The Park Record reports that the residents were notified shortly before Christmas that rent for January would be covered.
Just days before Christmas, residents of the 38-unit Newpark Studios were notified that their January rent had been paid. Monthly rent for the entire affordable housing community is about $25,000 or $527- $709 per unit. Most of the tenants are service industry workers and young adults.
Mountain lion shot after attacking 2 family dogs, killing 1
Susan Lee Strauss has lived in Summit Park for a decade and is used to seeing moose, deer, raccoons and porcupines.
She'd never seen a mountain lion, however, until one crept into her back yard in the middle of the night and went after her two dogs.
U. shuttle bus driver dies in campus crash
The driver of a University of Utah shuttle bus was killed in a crash Saturday morning.
Officials believe James Lamb, 72, experienced some kind of medical condition and crashed into a wall near Fort Douglas and Research Park. Lamb was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, said University of Utah spokeswoman Maria O'Mara.
Freak roller skating accident leaves Delta girl fighting for life
Six-year-old Tayton Timothy has been in a medically induced coma ever since a freak accident occurred while she was roller skating last weekend.
But the family got good news on Saturday, and new hope came with it.
"It's been very tough. It's been very hard. But she's doing good and that's all I care about," said Sammi Timothy, Tayton's mom. She said no one witnessed the Dec. 26 accident, in which an adult skater who had been skating backward while helping another skater bumped into Tayton and then landed on top of her on the ground.
Sports
KSL SportsBeat's biggest stories of 2015
In a special edition of SportsBeat, we re-live the best moments and biggest stories of 2015. Some of the biggest happened in the last month of the year, including Bronco Mendenhall announcing Dec. 4 he was leaving for Virginia after 11 years as BYU's head football coach.
Rabb helps California hand No. 21 Utah second straight loss
Utah's second straight loss is almost certain to knock the Utes out of the Top 25.
That's certainly not the direction coach Larry Krystkowiak expected his high-scoring team to be headed going into the weekend, not after putting up a pair of 100-point games in its final two nonconference games.
Fischer, Collinsworth lead BYU by Pacific for first road win
Chase Fischer poured in 23 points to help the BYU men's basketball team pick up the first true road win of the season with an 81-67 win at Pacific in West Coast Conference play Saturday evening.
Jazz Rewind: Utah moving up Western Conference with 3-1 week
Be honest; when Alec Burks went down with a broken ankle and Derrick Favors' back spasms started flaring up again, you thought the Jazz's playoff hopes would quickly disappear.
Let's rewind.
LaVell Edwards talks about BYU's new coaching staff
During former BYU football head coach LaVell Edwards' 29-year reign in Provo, the Cougars racked up 257 wins, 19 conference championships and a national championship. I caught up with the legend recently to get his thoughts on the new coaching staff at BYU and some advice he would give them.
