SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Community groups are protesting the pending deportation of a 31-year-old Mexican mother of three whose family says she was taken into custody by immigration agents while shopping with her daughter. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said Wednesday that Silvia Avelar-Flores was taken […]
A Richfield home was the scene of a fire May 1. A concerned citizen stopped and told the owners of the home at 112 E 300 N that they saw smoke leaking from the roof of the home. The Richfield City Police and Fire Departments were called to scene at […]
(Garfield County, UT) — A Department of Public Safety officer is facing a D-U-I charge in Garfield County. Investigators say Jason Whitehead was on his way to dive training on April 24th when they received calls of a reckless driver in Iron and Garfield counties. Sheriff’s office investigators also reportedly […]
(Washington, DC) — Tribal leaders say they’re prepared to go to court if the Trump administration tries to rescind the Bears Ears National Monument designation. Several leaders with the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition appeared at the National Press Club today to urge Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to listen […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Utah State football players are being charged with intimidating a witness in a burglary case against two other members of the team. Logan Police Chief Gary Jensen told The Salt Lake Tribune 19-year-old freshmen Kevin Meitzenheimer and Dayshawn Littleton were arrested Monday. Jensen says […]
The final defendant in the Leroy and Dorothy Fullwood murder case has been sentenced for her part in the robbery of the couple in late December 2011. Angela Atwood appeared in Sixth District Court in Manti for sentencing on Wednesday where Judge Marvin Bagley followed the sentence recommended in the […]
LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — Police say a 35-year-old man may have roamed comic book conventions around the country to lure teenage girls into sex. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that Derrick Jones of Catonsville, Maryland, was arrested in Utah on a charge of soliciting sexual contact with a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers want to investigate financial ties between the University of Utah and the Huntsman Cancer Institute after a dispute between leaders at the institutions led to resignations of the university’s president and top health care official. The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/2p5Om77 ) Provo Republican […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An extreme sports athlete who broke his neck in a helicopter crash in Russia last month has returned home to Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2qETyjx) 60-year-old Mike Trabert had been on a heli-skiing trip down a volcanic mountain on Russia’s Kamchatka Penninsula when […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dangerous water conditions are on the horizon in Utah due to recent snow melt. KUTV-TV reports the state’s rivers and streams will have about 20 percent more water in them on Wednesday than they did on Monday. The snowpack in the highest elevations is currently […]
