By MATTHEW D. LAPLANTE, Salt Lake Tribune

SALT LAKE CITY - An F-16 fighter pilot dropped a 500-pound bomb and two external fuel tanks onto an uninhabited area of Hill Air Force Base in Utah this week in response to an in-flight emergency.

The mother wrapped her arms around her 1-year-old daughter's body. The nurse held the child's head. And the doctor worked, stitch by stitch, to repair a laceration that stretched from the little girl's cheek to her lip.
There was no anesthetic to ease the child's pain.

This land is his land. But it is a land born of slavery, which came of age under Jim Crow and still struggles today to live down that legacy.
And yet Carl Wright would die for it.

The last time Israel went to war, its enemy stood stronger after the dust settled.
But last weekend's air assault on the Gaza Strip, roundly expected to be followed by additional military operations this week, is unlikely to empower Hamas in the same way Israel's much-criticized 2006 operations in Lebanon did for Hezbollah.

A team of security contractors was responding to incoming fire when it gunned down at least 14 Iraqi civilians in a west Baghdad intersection -- and radio logs prove it, according to the lawyer of a former Marine from Utah who was on the Blackwater Worldwide security detail known as "Raven 23."

From lifeblood to lifesaver: how Anthrax Immune Globulin is made -- and how it might work. - Military members and veterans who have received the anthrax vaccine give plasma. - The plasma is frozen, shipped to a laboratory, screened for infections and combined with plasma from other donors.

No one knows whether a serum being developed by a Canadian drugmaker will help victims of anthrax exposure. But under a contract signed in the wake of 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is paying the company more than $14,000 per dose of its anthrax immune globulin -- which is years away from licensure.

SALT LAKE CITY -- For years, Veronica Diaz-Guerra had told her mother that she was going to join the military.But when Diaz, still a few weeks shy of her 18th birthday, finally asked her mom to sign the papers permitting her enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps, Ofelia Guerra was hesitant.

SALT LAKE CITY -- At the time, he just wanted to go home.And so Clinton Sagers didn't push the matter when -- after being liberated from a prisoner of war camp in Mulberg, Germany, and then returned home to Rush Valley, Utah -- the Army failed to present him with a Purple Heart medal for the wounds he suffered in the Battle of the Bulge.

Surveillance. Rendition. Torture. According to some, the Bush administration has been bad for civil liberties.