SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The billionaire conservative Koch brothers and Utah’s wealthy Eccles family are giving a combined $20 million to the University of Utah to create an economics and quantitative analysis institute. The school will be called the Marriner Stoddard Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis. It’s […]
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Salt Lake County and state officials have created an information line that sexual assault victims and survivors can call to get an update on the status of their rape kit. Victim advocate Lauren De Vries says she will not turn away any Utah residents who call […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Justice Department officials in Washington say they’ve taken down an illicit internet marketplace where a Park City teenager bought drugs responsible for a classmate’s fatal overdose. Prosecutors said Thursday that 13-year-old Grant Seaver overdosed on a synthetic opioid known as pink that was purchased […]
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Police say a 3-year-old boy is dead after he was hit by a car while riding his bike. Authorities say it happened in a Spanish Fork neighborhood Wednesday afternoon as a woman was backing out of a driveway. Spanish Fork police Lt. Matt Johnson says […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is pleading guilty in the shooting deaths of a teenage brother and sister in a fight that started over a shirt. The pleas to two counts of aggravated murder mean that 28-year-old Mario Cervantes-Angel won’t face the death penalty in the shootings […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says federal officials will reconsider a 2016 plan requiring pollution controls at two of Utah’s oldest coal-fired power plants. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt made the announcement Tuesday while visiting Salt Lake City and meeting with Republican Gov. […]
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — Utah Department of Corrections inspectors during an annual review found the Davis County Jail to be out of compliance with some state minimum jail standards. The Standard-Examiner reported (http://bit.ly/2u8I5vF ) Wednesday that the jail has since retained compliance, but the standards that were not met are […]
REXBURG, Idaho (AP) — A former Brigham Young University-Idaho professor says she was fired after posting a critical view of the Mormon church’s policies against same-sex couples on Facebook. Former political science professor and LDS church member Ruthie Robertson wrote a lengthy Facebook post in favor of equal rights for […]
UPDATE: A Utah sheriff’s deputy has been charged with animal cruelty after his police dog died in a hot patrol truck. Prosecutors said Wednesday the misdemeanor count against Jason Whittier is a reminder that car-interior temperatures can quickly become deadly. The dog named Endy died of heat exhaustion on July […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sens. Mike Lee and Jerry Moran chose President Donald Trump’s favorite medium when they were in ready to disrupt the GOP rewrite of the health care law, they. They could not support Senate Republicans’ plan, the somewhat unlikely pair of conservatives tweeted at 8:30 p.m. Monday night, […]
