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FARMINGTON — In terms of the sheer magnitude of work that will be taking place, Northern Utah’s 2021 road construction season will be unlike any other. Sometime this spring, the Utah Department of Transportation will be working simultaneously on three highway projects in Weber and Davis counties, worth a combined $1.4 billion. Two of the projects — the $163 million Interstate 15 Express Lanes work and the $493 million U.S. 89 reconstruction — are being carried over from 2020. The third, and most expensive, is the $750 million West Davis Corridor. To put the 2021 dollar value in perspective, UDOT...

A Massachusetts teenager has been convicted of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing another student at a suburban Boston high school. A jury in Middlesex Superior Court today rejected a defense assertion that John Odgren was legally insane when he stabbed 15-year-old James Alenson in a boys’ bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School on Jan. 19, 2007. Odgren’s lawyers said he was a troubled 16-year-old who had a long history of emotional problems and disorders, including Asperger’s syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and depression. Odgren’s father testified that he had been teased and harassed at various schools he attended, and talked...