SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is under arrest after police say he choked his son with a football jersey during a sleepover. Layton Police Lt. Travis Lyman said Monday the man got angry when his sons were wrestling and the younger boy, age 10, couldn’t escape from […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City has formed an exploratory committee to decide if the city will bid to host the Winter Olympics in either 2026 or 2030 — taking a key step toward trying to become a rare two-time host city. The group made up of elected […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman sentenced to prison for trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband in order to get custody of their children and a million-dollar life insurance payout says she doesn’t remember ever having that conversation. The Deseret News reports Billie Jo Agee […]
PROVO (KSL.com)-Monday, 41-year-old Bountiful resident Jason Scott Calder, was charged in 4th District Court with rape, five counts of object rape and five counts of forcible sodomy, all first-degree felonies. Calder has also been charged with five counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony and the obstruction of justice, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s 10 largest colleagues and universities reported 65 sexual assaults last year, up from 58 in 2015. Under a U.S. law known as the Clery Act, schools that receive federal funding must annually release data on crimes that occur on campus or at affiliated locations, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservationists say mountain goats that were introduced by state wildlife officials in Utah’s La Sal Mountains are damaging Mount Peale’s fragile alpine ecosystems. The Salt Lake Tribune reports wildlife officials are now developing proposals to establish goat herds in other Utah ranges where this big […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The nearly complete fossilized remains of a tyrannosaur found two years ago in southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument have been airlifted to the Natural History Museum of Utah. The 75 million-year-old teratophoneus was covered in plaster and flown by helicopter in pieces Sunday to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s 10 largest colleagues and universities reported 65 sexual assaults last year, up from 58 in 2015. Under a U.S. law known as the Clery Act, schools that receive federal funding must annually release data on crimes that occur on campus or at affiliated locations, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After years of debate, a U.S. government board has voted unanimously to rename Utah’s Negro Bill Canyon, overruling a recommendation by Utah officials to keep the name. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names decided Thursday to rename it Grandstaff […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After a worker at a smelter outside Salt Lake City died from exposure to sulfur dioxide, the Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division is launching an investigation. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Rio Tinto Kennecott officials say 64-year-old Albert Lozano died Tuesday after he […]
