(New York, NY) – The head of the most visible women’s group in the Mormon Church is telling world leaders that faiths need to work together to help ease suffering around the globe. Jean B. Bingham addressed the United Nations’ “Focus on Faith” forum yesterday in New York City. The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – The Utah Highway Patrol will have more troopers out on the road for Easter weekend. The UHP is stepping up enforcement efforts today by putting more than a hundred extra officers in place around Utah. A spokesman for the highway patrol says most of the troopers’ […]
The Central Utah Narcotics task force seized nearly half of a pound of methamphetamine and arrested four people in Richfield as part of a drug bust that occurred April 5. Officers discovered 6 ounces of meth after serving a search warrant at a Richfield home. Dwight Jenkins, task force commander, […]
Monroe is getting ready to welcome home one of its own at the end of May. KSL reports that Elliott Deen Larsen, a member of the Navy Band, was killed along with 428 other sailors aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The unidentified remains of the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state report estimates that Utah missed out on about $430 million in the last budget year due to exemptions, from aviation fuel to college text books. Utah lawmakers plan to consider scaling back some of the 90 sales tax exemptions this summer. Billy Hesterman, […]
A new Miss Mt. Pleasant was crowned Friday night. Rylee Ann McKay, daughter of John and Debbie McKay, was chosen queen to represent Mt. Pleasant for the next year. Her court consists of first attendant, Mashaylie Burnside and second attendant, Megan Murphy. McKay is a sophomore at North Sanpete High […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A company with ties to a polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona has agreed to pay $200,000 for pay back wages to children who picked pecans for long hours in the cold. Federal prosecutors in Utah said Wednesday in a court filing that Paragon Contractors has […]
(Information from: Post Independent, http://www.postindependent.com/) GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado newspaper has discovered 40-year-old photos of serial killer Ted Bundy that had been locked in an antique safe. The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent reported Monday that the photos show Bundy in custody in 1977, the year he escaped from a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has raised about $1.3 million in campaign donations in recent months as he prepares for a possible re-election run, something the long-serving Republican has opened the door to after pledging years ago that his current term would be his last. Fundraising […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Attorneys for a Somali refugee shot by police are hoping body camera video of the incident helps persuade a judge to keep drug and robbery charges against the teenager in juvenile court. Defense lawyer Lacey Singleton said Wednesday after showing the video during in court […]
