10 month wait for FOIA request. Persistence pays off for results of Union Pacific train accident in Utah

It took 10 months. In fact, since my first day working at the Standard-Examiner I reported on a Union Pacific train derailment in Weber Canyon. After coming back to the office, I promptly put in a (Freedom of Information Act) FOIA request for the details of what happened in the accident.
In June, I got a response letter telling me it could take 6-9 months for the investigation to be complete.
10 months later, I finally got the report.

Here is the follow up story.  along with the original video from the first story I did.


 

Disney's 'Up' movie house in Herriman Utah celebrates Christmas

I took a peek inside the 'Up' house during Christmas time to see what the new owners of the home have done with the place. You won't believe it. The California natives brought Santa Claus to the porch for donations toward The Sub-For-Santa Charity.

See the video below:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55493137-78/hamblin-param-value-disney.html.csp

DISNEY/PIXAR "UP!" house in Utah

Last Saturday, Aug. 6th, I went out to do some mobile journalism and made a video walk-through tour of the UP! house replica in Herriman, UT.

The story link got retweeted by Disney/Pixar and The Washington Post Blog, Gizmodo and The Disney Blog embedded my video with their stories.

Here is the mobile story I did: