WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah National Guard recruiter accused of exchanging lewd text messages with a teenager has been indicted. The indictment charges 26-year-old South Jordan resident Kyle Ivory with sexual exploitation of a minor and enticing a minor. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the 17-year-old girl and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is running for president in his native country of Kenya. The Deseret News reports that Amram Musungu says he’s always wanted to run for the post to help Kenyans work to get control of a country that he believes is ripe for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has lifted a ban on motorized vehicles in a southeastern Utah canyon that was the setting of a 2014 ATV protest ride that was a flashpoint in the Western struggle over government land management. Zinke said in a news release […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Testimony is over and closing arguments are scheduled Wednesday in the trial of six men accused of wielding weapons against federal agents during a 2014 standoff involving Nevada cattleman and states’ rights advocate Cliven Bundy. Idaho resident Eric Parker, whose photo as an armed protester on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Tribune has won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for a series of stories on Mormon-owned Brigham Young University’s practice of opening honor code investigations into students who reported they were victims of sexual assault. The Utah newspaper won Monday for the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A social work expert says a Somali refugee shot by police should be allowed to face drug and robbery charges in juvenile court to give the 18-year-old a chance to rehabilitate. Robert Butters of the University of Utah said Monday that research shows juveniles thrown […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Utah Senator Orrin Hatch says he plans to run for an eighth term in the Senate unless something unusual happens. Speaking yesterday in Salt Lake City, the Republican senator said he would consider stepping aside if former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney wanted to take his place. […]
(Enterprise, UT) – Fire investigators are trying to determine what caused a blaze at a trash collection site in Enterprise. Fire crews say the blaze, which was contained to metal bins at the site off 100 North late Sunday, may have been started by hot ashes. Saint George News reports this […]
Cedar City, UT) – One person is hospitalized after a three car crash in Cedar City that caused one vehicle to roll. Investigators say two cars had slowed for traffic on Main Street yesterday when a third vehicle tried to avoid them but still hit the rear car which then rear […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Tribune has won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for a series of stories on Mormon-owned Brigham Young University’s practice of opening honor code investigations into students who reported they were victims of sexual assault. The Utah newspaper won Monday for the […]
