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One of two teenage girls who was hit by a vehicle earlier this month has been released from the hospital.

A Georgia-based nonprofit that honors fallen soldiers and police officers sent scripture-inscribed dog tags and pendants to the colleagues and family of Santaquin Police Sgt. Bill Hooser, who was killed in the line of duty when he was hit by a semitruck.

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Spanish Fork police said two teenage girls were struck by a vehicle Saturday and were taken by helicopter to Primary Childrens Hospital in critical condition.

The body of a fallen Santaquin police sergeant was sent home Monday with a police escort.

Santaquin Police Sgt. Bill Hooser, 50, started his law enforcement career eight years ago after first serving as an unpaid volunteer, his brother said.

Police in Utah say a truck driver killed a police officer with his rig during a traffic stop. A Santaquin police officer and a Utah Highway Patrol trooper had stopped the semitrailer Sunday after somebody called 911 to report that a person was standing on the back of the rig as it was headed north on Interstate 15. Spanish Fork police said the man began driving off during the stop, then turned the semitrailer around before driving the wrong way on the interstate. The rig crashed into two police ...

SANTAQUIN, UTAH - A tragic incident unfolded on a Utah highway as a truck driver allegedly killed a police officer during a traffic stop in Santaquin on Sunday morning. The officer, whose identity has not been released, was struck by the rig driven by Michael Aaron Jayne, 41, as he attempted to flee the scene,…

Michael Aaron Jayne, a 42-year-old truck driver, is accused of fatally shooting a Santaquin police officer on Interstate 15 in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The body of a fallen Santaquin police sergeant was sent home Monday with a police escort.