SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah residents have chosen a new North Ogden mayor to replace their fallen leader killed during a 2018 deployment in Afghanistan. The Deseret News reported Tuesday that voters elected businessman S. Neal Berube to fill the remaining two years of National Guard Maj. Brent Taylor’s term. Taylor […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dozens of Utah Army National Guard soldiers are returning from duty in Afghanistan. The Guard says nearly 60 soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division’s main operating command post operational detachment are returning to Utah this month, including five arriving Tuesday evening at Salt Lake City […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — An Army sergeant from Utah who died in Afghanistan has been laid to rest in Ogden. The Standard-Examiner reports family, friends, fellow military members and others gathered Thursday for the funeral of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins. The 31-year-old is survived by his wife and […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — An Army sergeant from Utah who died in Afghanistan will be buried in Ogden this week. The Standard-Examiner reports a funeral for U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins is set for Thursday morning at St. James Catholic Church. A burial with military honors will follow at […]
NORTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah mayor killed while serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan has been remembered on what would have been his 40th birthday. The Standard-Examiner reports that about two dozen friends, neighbors and relatives attended the party honoring Maj. Brent Taylor in North Ogden on Saturday. His […]
FLORISSANT, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of American flags were placed in front of a Colorado coffee shop owned by the family of an Army sergeant who died in Afghanistan. KMGH-TV reports residents of the Florissant area stopped by the Costello Street Coffee House on Thursday to plant flags and leave notes of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The body of an Army sergeant from Utah who died in Afghanistan has arrived back to the United States. A casket carrying the body of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins arrived Tuesday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. An Army team […]
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Army says a medical sergeant has died from non-combat injuries in Afghanistan. The U.S. Army Special Operations Command issued a statement saying that Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins died Sunday in Helmand Province. The 31-year-old was from Ogden, Utah, and was assigned […]
NORTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill passed by Congress to rename a Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Utah after a mayor who was killed while serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan. The White House’s website says the bill designating the VA outstation […]
NORTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah veterans’ facility is set to be renamed after Maj. Brent Taylor, the former North Ogden mayor who was killed while serving in Afghanistan. The North Ogden outstation of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would be named the Major Brent Taylor Vet Center […]
