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Utah treasure hunters discover time capsule, reunite memories with original owners
DAVIS COUNTY, Utah — A pair of treasure hunters, who had been on the lookout for Utah’s massive money prize of $20,000 tucked away within the mountains, stumbled throughout one thing that ended up being priceless to those that buried it 36 years in the past.
“We cherished wanting in there and studying all the things,” stated Kevin Richard, who positioned a time capsule this weekend close to Francis Peak in Davis County. “It was superior.”
Richard and his brother-in-law Troy Thompson had been on the lookout for the coveted treasure once they observed an space with rocks close to a tree that appeared odd to them. Thompson discovered the time capsule, a black pipe with caps on every finish, hidden below the rocks.
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“Once we opened it up on the automotive, it felt like only a scene out of the flicks,” stated Thompson. “We simply opened a bottle of treasure, solely it occurred to be not solely money, however a treasure filled with recollections.”
Inside had been cash, footage, letters and outdated certificates from adventures relationship again to 1986. The paperwork had names on them, which is how Thompson and Richards had been capable of monitor down a number of the unique homeowners of the recollections and in the end the group who buried the capsule.
Members of Boy Scout Troop 6210 from West Valley Metropolis buried the time capsule in 1986 and went again a number of instances so as to add gadgets till 1994.
“I actually don’t bear in mind even doing it,” stated Troy Orton, who revisited the time capsule website in 1994. “I don’t know if I went on my own, I don’t know if I had different individuals with me.”
Orton, joined by fellow Troop 6210 member Patrick Packer and former Scoutmaster Lyle Olsen, met in Bountiful on Monday to take a look at the capsule uncovered by Thompson and Richard.
“It brings again all of the adventures that we had as a troop as principally simply mates,” stated Packer.
The gadgets and recollections had been distributed among the many group.
Richard stated he didn’t need any of the gadgets and meant to search out their rightful homeowners.
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Alabama lands portal commitment from Utah CB Cameron Calhoun
A day after keeping one of its current cornerbacks from the transfer portal, Alabama is now adding to its future secondary. The Crimson Tide received a commitment from Utah cornerback transfer Cameron Calhoun on Wednesday. The rising sophomore will have three years of eligibility remaining.
Calhoun started one game over 11 appearances during his debut season this fall. The 6-foot, 177-pound defender led Utah with nine pass breakups to go with an interception. He also tallied 21 tackles, including one for a loss.
Calhoun, a Cincinnati native, originally signed with Michigan as a four-star recruit in the 2023 class before transferring to Utah. He was a high school teammate with Alabama freshman signee Justin Hill.
Alabama lost cornerback Jahlil Hurley (Kansas) and safety DeVonta Smith to the transfer portal earlier this month. The Tide nearly saw cornerback Jaylen Mbakwe enter as well. However, the five-star freshman had a change of heart and elected to return to the team.
Both of Alabama’s starting cornerbacks from this season, Domani Jackson and Zabien Brown, are eligible to return next year. Jackson, a rising senior will have a draft decision to make, while Brown is coming off a promising freshman campaign. The Tide also returns former Wake Forest transfer DaShawn Jones, a rising redshirt senior, who saw plenty of action both at cornerback and in the Husky role.
The addition of Calhoun ensures Alabama is covered in the event Jackson elects to depart for the draft. Regardless, the Utah transfer provides the Tide with more experienced depth in the secondary.
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5 Family Members Found Dead Inside Utah Home, 17-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized: ‘Absolutely Horrific’
Police in Utah are investigating the deaths of five people from the same family who were found dead inside their home.
The West Valley City Police Department shared on X (formerly known as Twitter) that officers were investigating a homicide after they found “five people deceased” and one teenager injured inside a home on the 3700 block of Oxford Way — which is located about 9 miles from Salt Lake City.
The five people who were found deceased included two adults, a 42-year-old male, a 38-year-old female, an 11-year-old boy, a 9-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl. Police noted that their “initial information” indicated that they were all related and lived together.
Authorities said their investigation began when they were contacted by a family member on Monday, Dec. 16 who had voiced their “concerns” to police after “they had not heard from the woman who lives in the home” after visiting a few days prior.
Officers then visited the property and attempted to “make contact” with the family. However, when they arrived and knocked at the door, “no one answered,” so officers looked inside the windows of the home and “spoke to neighbors.”
“They did not find any indications of an emergency or crime so they asked the family member to keep in contact,” police said in their statement.
When one of the deceased did not show up for work on Tuesday, Dec. 17, the concerned family member decided to enter the garage of the home to check if everyone was okay. While there, she found a 17-year-old family male member suffering from “an apparent gunshot wound” and called the police.
Officers responded to the scene just after 2 p.m., and the 17-year-old was transported to the hospital. West Valley City police spokesperson Roxeanne Vainuku described his injuries as “significant” in a press conference, per KTVX and NBC News.
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“He’s in a condition where we’ve not really been able to communicate with him,” Vainuku said, per NBC News. His exact condition was unknown, per the outlet.
After searching the house, authorities found the five other bodies. However, police did not say how they may have died.
Vainuku described the scene as “absolutely horrific,” and added that it “is something that certainly will weigh heavily on investigators in this case.”
Police said in a statement that they “obtained a search warrant for the home” and investigators had started their investigation inside the home.
“Officers also have canvassed the neighborhood gathering information and any video evidence,” they added.
“At this time, we believe this incident is isolated to this home,” police continued.
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Utah family of five found dead in home
FIVE members of a Utah family including children aged 2, 9 and 11 were found dead of gunshot wounds in their home on Tuesday, while one 17-year-old boy was injured, police said.
There were no suspects at large, police said, indicating the shooter was someone within the family.
“We do not believe there’s a suspect on the loose. We believe at this point that this is an incident that’s isolated to this home,“ West Valley police spokesperson Roxeanne Vainuku told reporters.
The 17-year-old was in the hospital undergoing treatment and it was too soon to determine whether he was a suspect or a victim, Vainuku said.
The five dead were a man, 42, a woman, 38, a boy, 11, and two girls ages 9 and 2, Vainuku said.
“This is far beyond anything routine,“ Vainuku said. “There were four (homicides) in the city for the entire year of 2024 so this more than doubles that number. … This is something that certainly will weigh heavily upon investigators.”
West Valley City is a suburb of Salt Lake City with a population of about 134,000.
Police had been called to the home on Monday by a concerned relative but nobody inside responded and officers looking through the windows found no sign of an emergency or crime, Vainuku said.
When the woman failed to show at work on Tuesday, relatives entered the home and found the 17-year-old wounded in the garage. Officers called to the scene entered the home and found the bodies, police said.
In January 2023, a 42-year-old Utah man whose wife had filed for divorce just before Christmas shot dead seven members of his family including his five children ranging in ages from 4 to 17 and then turned the gun on himself, said officials in the town of Enoch City in southwestern Utah.
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