LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Salvation Army in Las Vegas is working to locate people who may have been involved in a needle mishap. KLAS-TV reports two students in the health program at Southern Utah University led a free health clinic in Las Vegas during the school’s fall break. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has rejected a bid by a man convicted of killing a retired Brigham Young University professor in 2009 to withdraw his guilty plea. The justices said in a ruling issued Wednesday that 30-year-old Benjamin Rettig’s guilty plea will stand despite his […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah families looking for a fresh-cut Christmas tree might come up short because fewer conifers are available in the Pacific Northwest this year. The shortage has to do with the Great Recession, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday. Joe Shadle, owner of J&T Trees in […]
A group of state attorneys general is urging the National Park Service to scrap its proposed entrance fee hike at 17 popular national parks. The top government lawyers from 10 states and the District of Columbia sent a letter Wednesday saying they don’t want national parks to be “places only […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal health officials say more than 52,000 people in Utah have signed up for insurance through the online marketplace in the first two and a half weeks of open enrollment. The Healthcare.gov marketplace run by the U.S. government under the Affordable Care Act allows those […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities are clearing dead cows off a northern Utah interstate highway after a semitrailer hauling cattle tipped over and crashed on an exit ramp above the highway, spilling cows onto the road below. Utah’s Highway Patrol said the semitrailer driver was speeding Wednesday while exiting […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is rethinking protection plans for sage grouse in six Western states after a U.S. court agreed with mining companies that the agency illegally created some safeguards in Nevada. The agency announced Tuesday that it’s working with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Real Salt Lake player accused of having sex with a minor has taken a plea deal. The Deseret News reports 24-year-old forward Ricardo Velazco pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced charge of misdemeanor sexual battery. The Casa Grande, Arizona, native was suspended from the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have filed charges against a man accused of trying to hit a police officer with a car as he deployed a spike strip during a car chase that went through several cities in the Salt Lake City area. The Deseret News reports 28-year-old Juan […]
MOAB, Utah (AP) — Hundreds of BASE jumpers and slackliners are in Moab for holiday events to where they’ll walk across webbing stretched between red rock crevices or jump from fixed points like sandstone mesas. A slackline event called GGBY kicked off Tuesday and runs through Saturday. Participants balance on […]
