TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — An 80-year-old man convicted of battery for punching a police officer who stopped him from approaching kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart with a knife at an Indiana book signing has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. The (Terre Haute) Tribune-Star reports Claude Hudson told a […]
EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah (AP) — A Utah mayor has resigned from office. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2w4a6US ) Eagle Mountain Mayor Chris Pengra will step down from his post Aug. 18. He says he has accepted a position with Rocky Mountain Power electricity company as its economic development director. He […]
Authorities say a Utah man killed his wife aboard a cruise ship and told an acquaintance who later walked into the blood-splattered cabin that he did it because she wouldn’t stop laughing at him. A criminal complaint by an FBI special agent says Kenneth Manzanares was found in the couple’s […]
Millard County Sheriff’s deputies along with agents from the Central Utah Narcotics Task Force and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) arrested three individuals Wednesday, July 26. The three agencies worked investigative leads in Millard County of persons suspected of weapon and border re-entry violations. Two of the men […]
The Richfield City Police Department is investigating the death of a Richfield man. According to the Richfield Reaper officers responded to a report of a deceased person on Thursday, July 20. 46-year-old Shon Lee was found dead in his home by another person who lived in the house. Richfield City […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a Utah trooper had been attempting to make a traffic stop when the vehicle took off, crossed over into oncoming traffic and hitting a semitrailer head-on, leading to the fleeing driver’s death and causing undisclosed burn injuries to the semitrailer driver. The Trooper […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah health authorities say they have confirmed an additional case of E.coli connected to an outbreak that previously killed two children in a mostly polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border, bringing the total number of cases to 12. Southwest Utah Public Health Department spokesman David […]
DENVER (AP) — A lawsuit contesting new rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land will get its day in court even though President Donald Trump’s administration doesn’t intend to implement them. Arguments will take place Thursday before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. The rules would regulate […]
Salt Lake City (July 26, 2017) – Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Director Mike Styler has named Mike Fowlks the new director of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR). Fowlks has more than 24 years’ experience with DWR and has been the agency’s deputy director for the past […]
An FBI spokeswoman in Anchorage says a suspect is in custody in the death of a woman on a cruise ship in U.S. waters off of Alaska. Staci Feger-Pellessier had no other details ahead of a scheduled Thursday news conference at which the U.S. attorney’s office plans to announce charges. […]
