SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a massive wildfire in southern Utah uncovered a man’s collection of scattered underground bunkers stocked with guns, grenades and food in the wilderness. The Iron County Sheriff said Thursday firefighters battling the June fire near Brian Head heard ammunition exploding and discovered a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will announce plans next week to shrink two sprawling Utah national monuments by nearly two-thirds, reversing actions taken by Democrat Barack Obama after a years-long push by tribal leaders and environmental groups. Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Trump plans to […]
(Washington County, UT) — About 67-hundred more people are living in Washington and Iron Counties compared to the same time a year ago. New data from the U-S Census Bureau shows just over 52-hundred people moved into Washington County between July First in 2016 and 2017 with just over 15-hundred […]
(Cedar City, UT) — Cedar City police are issuing another warning about scam calls after criminals tried to victimize one from their own ranks. A scammer claiming to be with Publishers Clearing House reportedly called Lieutenant Keith Millett yesterday, claiming he needed to wire money for taxes on a prize […]
(Parowan, UT) — A man is accepting a plea deal that will see him spend no less than 25 years in prison for reportedly sexually assaulting two young children. Prosecutors said yesterday Robert Titensor agreed to plead guilty to a sodomy upon a child count and in exchange, three other […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Researchers studying a spike in teen suicides in Utah found that 18 of the 150 youngsters who took their own lives in a five-year period had recently lost privileges to use their electronic devices such as phones, tablets and gaming systems, according to a U.S. […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper says the 2018 festival will take steps to address the sexual misconduct crisis and boost awareness for both staff and attendees. Cooper says they plan to publicly share a code of conduct previously only seen by staff and volunteers. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Overdose deaths related to the powerful painkiller fentanyl spiked by 78 percent in Utah last year amid a national opioid epidemic, according to a report from the Utah Department of Health. Forty-one people died in 2016, the highest number since the state began tracking such […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge is ordering a video of a fatal police shooting inside a federal courthouse to be made public, though he’s delaying the release to allow for appeal. U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Cleary decided Wednesday a version of the video pixelated to obscure identities should […]
RIVERDALE, Utah (AP) — Officials in the northern Utah city of Riverdale say they’re trying to determine the cause of a slow-moving landslide that’s forced the evacuation of three homes. Riverdale fire chief Jared Sholly said at a Wednesday news conference that the slide that began Nov. 19 is now […]
