LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Smithfield man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his father to death has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that 26-year-old Shane Alan Hallstrom pleaded guilty to murder in the death of his father, 58-year-old Calvin Leon Hallstrom. […]
PREWITT, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say the man suspected of gunning down a tribal police officer on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation was found hiding on a ridge not far from his rural home in western New Mexico. The McKinley County Sheriff’s Office in a report obtained by the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Jason Chaffetz are trying to repeal a federal plan to reduce haze at eastern Utah national parks from nearby coal-powered plants. The proposal from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would require two coal-powered plants in Utah to cut emissions […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials are reviewing how the state would be affected by a plan from congressional Republicans to replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, but local health advocates say it could make coverage unaffordable for older people and the poor. Gov. Gary Herbert has said […]
Cody Howell, who goes to North Sanpete High School, will compete today at Westminster College, among 5 other statewide finalists for a chance to go to Washington D.C.for the National Poetry Out Loud Finals High schools around the state participated in Poetry Out Loud activities and competed in six region […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has announced its putting up a billboard urging cat owners to keep their felines indoors in a Utah city where a pet cat was beaten, tortured and left to die. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the 6-year-old […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Police are investigating a possible homicide at a home in Provo. Sgt. Brian Taylor told The (Provo) Daily Herald a 24-year-old man was shot at about 11:20 p.m. Monday at the home near 400 West and 100 North. He says the man’s girlfriend took him to […]
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — The Utah Fraternal Order of Police is speaking out against any possible rush to judgment in the case of a 30-year-old West Jordan police officer and U.S. military veteran accused of domestic violence and kidnapping. James Harvie of Orem was being held in the Utah […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Advocates for the mentally disabled are optimistic that new money approved by the Utah Legislature will help reduce the time mentally ill defendants languish in jail without treatment. Lawmakers recently set aside $3 million to resolve a federal lawsuit accusing the state of failing to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A report by The University of Utah indicates that more than half of Utah’s public school teachers who started work in 2008 left the profession less than a decade later. The Deseret News reports that Utah’s turnover rate is high compared to the national average. […]
