Two Children Found Dead In West Point, 15-Year-Old Brother Taken In To Custody
(KUTV) Davis County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating the deaths of two boys in West Point. Officials have identified their older brother as a person of interest in the case.

Police say the two brothers were found dead, and the other missing, Wednesday night after their mother left her oldest son to watch his 4-year-old and 10-year-old siblings. The children’s mother had left to take her daughter to a dance recital just before 5:00pm.

When she returned home, police say she found her 4-year-old son dead and called police. It wasn’t until police arrived that they discovered the 10-year-old was also dead.

Police immediately circulated the 15-year-old boy's picture Wednesday night in attempts to locate him and question him.

Officials said in a press conference Thursday that the 15-year-old boy was located in Layton City late Wednesday night. He was said to be in good condition, but was taken to the hospital to be evaluated for injuries.

The boy has since been taken into custody and is being held at Farmington Bay Youth Detention Center. Because the boy is a juvenile, no other details have been given. Investigators are still investigating to the cause of death but say they are investigating it as a homicide. Davis County Sheriff's Office said the boys appeared to have penetrating knife wounds. 

Police say they believe the boy acted alone.

The children's father is deployed stateside on active duty with the military but has been notified of the incident. The family has six children.

Davis County Sheriff's remain at the home and are expected to hold an additional news briefing later this afternoon.

(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group.)
Weather: Forecast For May 23, 2013

Weather update for the morning of May 23, 2013:  A chilly, gusty night gives us a cool, breezy start to what will end up being a pretty pleasant afternoon.  Our morning low is in the mid forties.  Temperatures dropped yesterday evening by about 15-degrees when a front moved through.

Forecast for Today & Tonight:  We will stay breezy today and our highs are about 15-degrees cooler than yesterday`s high in Salt Lake of 87-degrees.  We expect to be in the low seventies today.  Eastern and southern Utah are going to be windy with gusts up to 50 mph expected at times.  "Average" lows again tonight... in the forties.

Teen Inspires The World While Raising Money For Prostate Cancer
(KUTV) Who says kids can't change the world? 14-year-old Winter Vinecki is here to prove that theory wrong.

Winter is raising money step by step as she runs around the world. She is raising money for prostate cancer. Her dad died of it when she was just 9-years-old.

After he died, Winter turned sadness into purpose, hoping she could raise some money along the way. So far, Winter has raised $400,000 for prostate cancer research. "I originally set my goal for 10-thousand dollars when I first formed Team Winter. To now be at over 400-thousand it’s just so hard to fathom how I got here,” says Winter.

Winter will be the youngest person ever to run marathons on every continent. Just recently, though, she decided running around the world wasn’t enough. She has now added ski jumping to the list to help broaden her reach. She plans on competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

"I ultimately want Team Winter to grow as big as the Lance Armstrong Foundation, as big as the Komen Foundation one day,” Winter says.

And even when she wants to give up, when there is that quiet nagging that it is too hard, or she is too tired, Winter thinks about her dad.

"I always think about my dad, how he never gave up with prostate cancer. So I'm never going to give up you know with school or jumping or running,” says Winter. “I can’t give up because I think, basically, every step I’m taking is those steps my dad never got to take in life.”

For more information, or to donate, visit http://www.teamwinter.org/

(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group)
Pay It Forward: Heal Courageously
(KUTV) The battle to stay strong during cancer treatment is a courageous fight. That’s why the professional photographers at Heal Courageously offer their talents to capture a patient’s personal moments. Heal Courageously is this week’s Pay It Forward recipient.

Learn more about their amazing story at www.healcourageously.org.

(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group)
Get Gephardt: An Unexpected Check In The Mail That's NOT A Scam
By Matt Gephardt
Produced by Michelle Poe
Edited by Aaron Colborn
Photography by Randy Likness
(KUTV) There was a surprise waiting for Li Ann Lee when she checked her mailbox last week. Inside was a check from the Federal Trade Commission for $96.39. Li Ann was suspicious.

"I thought that it was a scam,” she said. “People don't just send you money out of the clear blue sky."

A letter attached to the check says the FTC is sending out refunds from a company about which Li Ann says she has never heard: a Nevada company called Grant Connect, LLC.

"[The letter] gives a whole list of things which I did not recognize," she said.

Li Ann says she gets a lot of bogus checks from scammers and she was certain this too was a check from a scammer … but not so fast, Li Ann.

True enough, there are countless check scams out there that all begin with a thief sending a potential victim a check. Some crooks even lie and say they are the FTC to try and fool people. But the check Li Ann received is the exception to the rule.

Get Gephardt investigated and found that in 2011 the FTC won a judgment against Grant Connect, LLC for nearly $30 million. The FTC says, consumers were “defrauded” by the company. The FTC says the company "falsely claimed they could help consumers get free government grant money," according to a recent FTC announcement on the commission’s website. Earlier this month, the FTC began sending out refund checks to the company's victims.

So there you go, Li Ann. You may not remember Grant Connect, LLC, but the FTC says you are owed $100. The check is real.

The FTC says the easiest way to know if a check is real or a scam is by whether or not the people that sent the check ask you to send money. The FTC never requires you to pay upfront fees to cash a check. If someone contacts you about a refund and insists on money, it's probably a scam, the commission says.

(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group)

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Two Children Found Dead In West Point, 15-Year-Old Brother Taken In To Custody
(KUTV) Davis County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating the deaths of two boys in West Point. Officials have identified their older brother as a person of interest in the case.

Police say the two brothers were found dead, and the other missing, Wednesday night after their mother left her oldest son to watch his 4-year-old and 10-year-old siblings. The children’s mother had left to take her daughter to a dance recital just before 5:00pm.

When she returned home, police say she found her 4-year-old son dead and called police. It wasn’t until police arrived that they discovered the 10-year-old was also dead.

Police immediately circulated the 15-year-old boy's picture Wednesday night in attempts to locate him and question him.

Officials said in a press conference Thursday that the 15-year-old boy was located in Layton City late Wednesday night. He was said to be in good condition, but was taken to the hospital to be evaluated for injuries.

The boy has since been taken into custody and is being held at Farmington Bay Youth Detention Center. Because the boy is a juvenile, no other details have been given. Investigators are still investigating to the cause of death but say they are investigating it as a homicide. Davis County Sheriff's Office said the boys appeared to have penetrating knife wounds. 

Police say they believe the boy acted alone.

The children's father is deployed stateside on active duty with the military but has been notified of the incident. The family has six children.

Davis County Sheriff's remain at the home and are expected to hold an additional news briefing later this afternoon.

(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group.)
Weather: Forecast For May 23, 2013

Weather update for the morning of May 23, 2013:  A chilly, gusty night gives us a cool, breezy start to what will end up being a pretty pleasant afternoon.  Our morning low is in the mid forties.  Temperatures dropped yesterday evening by about 15-degrees when a front moved through.

Forecast for Today & Tonight:  We will stay breezy today and our highs are about 15-degrees cooler than yesterday`s high in Salt Lake of 87-degrees.  We expect to be in the low seventies today.  Eastern and southern Utah are going to be windy with gusts up to 50 mph expected at times.  "Average" lows again tonight... in the forties.

Teen Inspires The World While Raising Money For Prostate Cancer
(KUTV) Who says kids can't change the world? 14-year-old Winter Vinecki is here to prove that theory wrong.

Winter is raising money step by step as she runs around the world. She is raising money for prostate cancer. Her dad died of it when she was just 9-years-old.

After he died, Winter turned sadness into purpose, hoping she could raise some money along the way. So far, Winter has raised $400,000 for prostate cancer research. "I originally set my goal for 10-thousand dollars when I first formed Team Winter. To now be at over 400-thousand it’s just so hard to fathom how I got here,” says Winter.

Winter will be the youngest person ever to run marathons on every continent. Just recently, though, she decided running around the world wasn’t enough. She has now added ski jumping to the list to help broaden her reach. She plans on competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

"I ultimately want Team Winter to grow as big as the Lance Armstrong Foundation, as big as the Komen Foundation one day,” Winter says.

And even when she wants to give up, when there is that quiet nagging that it is too hard, or she is too tired, Winter thinks about her dad.

"I always think about my dad, how he never gave up with prostate cancer. So I'm never going to give up you know with school or jumping or running,” says Winter. “I can’t give up because I think, basically, every step I’m taking is those steps my dad never got to take in life.”

For more information, or to donate, visit http://www.teamwinter.org/

(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group)
Pay It Forward: Heal Courageously
(KUTV) The battle to stay strong during cancer treatment is a courageous fight. That’s why the professional photographers at Heal Courageously offer their talents to capture a patient’s personal moments. Heal Courageously is this week’s Pay It Forward recipient.

Learn more about their amazing story at www.healcourageously.org.

(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group)
Get Gephardt: An Unexpected Check In The Mail That's NOT A Scam
By Matt Gephardt
Produced by Michelle Poe
Edited by Aaron Colborn
Photography by Randy Likness
(KUTV) There was a surprise waiting for Li Ann Lee when she checked her mailbox last week. Inside was a check from the Federal Trade Commission for $96.39. Li Ann was suspicious.

"I thought that it was a scam,” she said. “People don't just send you money out of the clear blue sky."

A letter attached to the check says the FTC is sending out refunds from a company about which Li Ann says she has never heard: a Nevada company called Grant Connect, LLC.

"[The letter] gives a whole list of things which I did not recognize," she said.

Li Ann says she gets a lot of bogus checks from scammers and she was certain this too was a check from a scammer … but not so fast, Li Ann.

True enough, there are countless check scams out there that all begin with a thief sending a potential victim a check. Some crooks even lie and say they are the FTC to try and fool people. But the check Li Ann received is the exception to the rule.

Get Gephardt investigated and found that in 2011 the FTC won a judgment against Grant Connect, LLC for nearly $30 million. The FTC says, consumers were “defrauded” by the company. The FTC says the company "falsely claimed they could help consumers get free government grant money," according to a recent FTC announcement on the commission’s website. Earlier this month, the FTC began sending out refund checks to the company's victims.

So there you go, Li Ann. You may not remember Grant Connect, LLC, but the FTC says you are owed $100. The check is real.

The FTC says the easiest way to know if a check is real or a scam is by whether or not the people that sent the check ask you to send money. The FTC never requires you to pay upfront fees to cash a check. If someone contacts you about a refund and insists on money, it's probably a scam, the commission says.

(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group)


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