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OGDEN, Utah – The court fight about alleged wiretapping is over, but there’s plenty of acrimony still swirling between two camps of Utah Republican Party activists. Three Weber County Republicans recently dropped a civil lawsuit they filed in 2018 against two other Republicans. Bob McEntee, Lynda Pipkin and Elizabeth Carlin, who were members of the GOP State Central Committee at the time, sued Daryl Acumen and Giles Witherspoon-Boyd after a fractious party meeting in North Salt Lake on Sept. 9, 2017. The Weber County trio alleged that Acumen, a party activist, and Witherspoon-Boyd, a technology provider, intercepted communications of committee…

OGDEN, Utah — After a steady decline in gas costs over the past year — largely driven by decreased demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic — experts warn that prices at the pump are poised to rise in 2021. The Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Area saw gas prices fall in each month after COVID-19 cases began cropping up in Utah in March 2020. And during the past month, the trend continued, as average gas prices fell by 6.5 cents a gallon, according to GasBuddy, a Boston-based tech company that tracks real-time fuel prices across the United States.