PROVO, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for a Utah man accused of killing two teenagers and dumping their bodies in an abandoned mine shaft. Utah County Attorney David Leavitt said Wednesday at a news conference in Provo that he will keep the option available […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A man charged with reckless burning that sparked a massive 2017 wildfire in southern Utah was ordered Tuesday to stand trial. Judge James Brady ruled there was enough evidence for the misdemeanor case against Robert Lyman, 63, to proceed, KUTV reported . The retired teacher and basketball coach […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man will serve up to life in prison after being convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend as he fired more than a dozen rounds into a bedroom window. The Deseret News reports that police say 47-year-old Gino James Cecala had targeted 25-year-old Paige Espinoza’s current boyfriend […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A correctional officer at a Utah jail has been convicted of engaging in sexual contact with inmates. The Standard-Examiner reports 41-year-old Jeremy Clark Miller pleaded no contest Tuesday to a felony charge of custodial sexual relations. Miller was a corporal in the corrections division of the Weber County […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teenager has been sentenced to a juvenile detention facility for the deadly shooting of a 16-year-old boy. The judge at the sentencing hearing Thursday did not set a specific detention term for the 15-year-old shooter, allowing the youth parole board to determine it. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Court of Appeals has affirmed an order for a Utah businessman convicted of running a Ponzi scheme to pay more than $10 million in restitution. The Deseret News reported Monday that the court rejected arguments last week by Dee Allen Randall’s attorneys that he owed […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A tech worker charged in the death of a Utah college student has made his first court appearance. Ayoola A. Ajayi appeared by video from jail alongside a court-appointed attorney during a quick hearing Monday to set a future court date. He did not speak […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A tech worker was charged Wednesday with murder and kidnapping in the death of a Utah college student whose body was found in a wooded area with her arms bound behind her. Prosecutors said Ayoola A. Ajayi, 31, was the last person Mackenzie Lueck communicated […]
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s has been sentenced on a sexual abuse charge for the second time in as many weeks. Under the terms of a plea agreement, the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Nephi man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose naked body was found on a hillside in western Utah. The Deseret News reports that 43-year-old Cody Alexander Young was charged Monday at a court in Juab County with manslaughter, a second-degree […]
