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With a little more than an hour to go before President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night deadline for Iran to open up a vital shipping corridor, Utah businessman Khosrow Semnani, who was born in the Middle East country, was wracked with anxiety. “I’ve never been worried so badly as I am right now, to be honest with you,” he said. Semnani, the man who opened Tooele County’s low-level nuclear waste facility, was particularly concerned about Trump’s threats to attack bridges and power plants in Iran, especially the nuclear generation facility in Bushehr. “These are counterproductive. It pushes people of Iran to...

A man who police say had a toxic relationship with a woman that included a history of domestic violence was charged Tuesday with killing her and dumping her body in a remote area of Tooele County. Nestor Oved Rocha-Aguayo, 24, is charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated murder and aggravated kidnapping, first-degree felonies; three counts of obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony; and abuse or desecration of a dead body, a third-degree felony. Police say Rocha-Aguayo was living in West Valley City when he was deported on Dec. 24. He returned to Utah less than a week later