A Salt Lake City police officer was hospitalized after crashing his motorcycle about 2:50 p.m. as he traveled on a loop connecting Bangerter Highway to Interstate 80.   Full Story

WASHINGTON -- Tucked in thousands of pages of budget documents is a billion-dollar proposal by the Bush administration to sell off potentially hundreds of thousands of acres of land now managed by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land management, an effort to stretch taxpayer dollars.   Full Story

Formerly known as Envirocare of Utah, Salt Lake city-based EnergySolutions has bought another waste management firm, Duratek Inc., in a move signaling the company's shift from disposing low-level radioactive waste to a full-service nuclear waste company.   Full Story

While security, scandal and symbolism dominated the build-up to the Salt Lake Olympic Games four years ago, the focus leading up to the Turin Winter Olympics has been squarely on a U.S. Olympic Team that has emerged as a winter-sports superpower.   Full Story

ST. GEORGE - Dixie State College has fired head football coach Greg Croshaw after 24 successful seasons, the junior college which is making the transition to NCAA Division II announced Wednesday.   Full Story

LITHONIA, Ga. - Coretta Scott King, who earned the title ''first lady of the civil rights movement'' for her efforts to carry on the work of her slain husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was given her final honor Tuesday with a funeral that was as much about tributes as politics.
   In a six-hour ceremony, dozens of speakers, including President Bush, stood at the podium of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta to talk about the woman who rose from the   Full Story

WASHINGTON - Federal authorities plan to invest some $490 million in commuter rail from Ogden to Salt Lake City, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta announced Tuesday.
    The decision was cheered by officials whose constituents are plagued by gridlock trying to reach or leave Utah's capital city.
   "Now I can go do a handstand," said Davis County Commissioner Dan McConkie after he heard the news.   Full Story

Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne says that when it came to projecting how his online closeout retailer would do in fiscal 2005, he got it at least half right.
    Last fall, Byrne said he was aiming for 60 percent to 100 percent growth in revenues, and wanted to see Overstock break even - plus or minus 1 percent - for the year.   Full Story

You have given them roses and chocolates, too. But on this Valentine's Day, why not think of something new? The perfect way to break out of the heart-shaped box this Feb. 14 is with handcrafted cakes, candies and cookies, made by Utah confectioners.
   If your sweetheart yearns for made-from-scratch cakes, give one of the miniature 6-inch treats that Laurlee Morrison and Kathleen Walker produce at Cakes de Fleur - light and moist and perfect for sharing.   Full Story