In the third weather-related fatality on the water in three weeks, an Ogden man was killed Sunday night when a boat on the Bear River was struck by lightning. According to the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office, 24-year-old Skylar Granath was boating with two companions when an active lightning storm passed over the area, with one bolt striking the boat and capsizing it, throwing the three into the water. “Two of the individuals were able to make it to shore and were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” wrote Chief Deputy Cade Palmer in a press release. “The third...

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