Byline: Steven Oberbeck

Oct. 3--U.S. military personnel based in Utah no longer can turn to the state's payday lenders for the short-term loans they may need to help make ends meet.

And that has many members of the military in Utah upset, according to the managers of some payday loans stores that count servicemen and women among their customers.

"We've had a lot of people upset. It has been hard the last few days telling them that we're no longer able to make loans to people in the military," said Wendy Gibson, the store manager at Check City in Ogden, which serves personnel from nearby Hill Air Force Base. "And what is sad is they seem hesitant to speak out for ...