SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 39-year-old Utah woman has been charged with child abuse after police say she locked her two young children in her car trunk while she went inside a Wal-Mart store to shop. Court documents show Tori Lee Castillo of Ogden has been charged with two […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Brigham Young University professor says he’s ending his legal fight to enter the race to replace Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Chia-Chi (CHA-Chee) Teng said in a Facebook post Monday he’s dropping his lawsuit because he doesn’t want to delay the election and increase costs. He […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Authorities are investigating a house fire in northern Utah after a woman was found dead inside the burned building. Fire Marshal Joe White says the woman was trapped inside the home on Monday morning, but it wasn’t clear what kept her from escaping the […]
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Search and rescue teams have located the body of a hiker who fell into Bell Canyon Creek in northern Utah. Reports say the body of 22-year-old Siaosi Brown was found near the lower falls of Bell Canyon Monday. The teams were able to spot the body […]
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Officials are hopeful Utah’s major rape kit backlog will be reduced now that a new state crime laboratory has opened where robotic machines can extract DNA samples and deliver them to forensic technicians much faster than humans. During the opening of a new Unified State Laboratory […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church for the first time ever is sending out a survey to the religion’s 62,000 missionaries to gauge safety conditions for young men and women serving proselytizing missions around the world, the religion said Monday. The confidential online survey wasn’t triggered by one […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — Utah State Prison inmates are taking up crochet and making blankets with intricate, patriotic designs for to hospitalized military veterans. Vietnam Navy veteran Brian Mildenhall tells KSL-TV that he was overwhelmed when he learned of the source of his new crochet blanket. Inmates say crocheting is […]
CASTLE DALE, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a Utah woman was rescued after she hung onto a canoe for four hours as it floated down a river for eight miles after capsizing and tossing her into the cold water. The incident occurred Thursday on the San Rafael River in the […]
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation say the Air Force is giving the final go-ahead to move two F-16 squadrons at least temporarily from Hill Air Force Base in Utah to Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico. The announcement Saturday by Democratic Sens. Tom […]
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine the identity and cause of death of a person whose remains were found in the desert in a remote area of northwestern Arizona. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office says the remains were found Thursday near a county road approximately 45 miles […]
