Top News Stories of 2005
 
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10.  Eight Aggie students and an instructor were killed when their Utah State University van blew a tire and rolled over on the way back to campus from a farm field trip.

9.  Brennan Hawkins, 11, who vanished from a Boy Scout camp, was found alive and in good condition after spending four days lost in the rugged Utah wilderness.

8.  Brian David Mitchell and wife Wanda Barzee are found incompetent to stand trial in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart.

7.  Mark Hacking pleads guilty to first-degree murder for killing his wife, Lori, and is sentenced to six years to life in prison.

6.  Utah debuts a new pro franchise: Real Salt Lake draw 25 thousand soccer fans to Rice Eccles Stadium. And then the team announces plans to build a soccer stadium in Sandy, although the legality of using public money for the project is questioned.

5.  President Bush visits Salt Lake City to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in a state generally friendly to his presidency, but a large anti-war protest occurs simultaneously at Pioneer Park, led by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.

4.  Utah and Arizona crack down on polygamy in Hildale and Colorado City, seeking the removal of fugitive Colorado City fundamentalist church leader Warren Jeffs and others from management of the United Effort Plan Trust.

3.  The Legislature approves an out-of-court settlement that will allow construction of the Legacy Parkway after four years of delay.

2.  Utah relief providers are swamped with offers of help as six hundred hurricane refugees from the Gulf Coast are evacuated here.

1.  Southern Utah floods in January and again in August force dozens of people from their homes and wash out bridges.
 
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Originally Broadcast December 20, 2005
 
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