SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a man and a teenager are in custody in connection with a drive-by shooting in Taylorsville that killed a woman. Unified police say they’ve arrested 20-year-old Euziel De La Torre of West Jordan for his alleged involvement in the July 10 shooting of […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A historic Mormon church building in southern Utah has re-opened its doors after a two-year project to restore the tabernacle built by early settlers even as the new town struggled to survive through floods and heat. The Spectrum newspaper reports the Tabernacle in St. George, a LDS […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A southern Utah man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 79-year-old St. George woman in her home three months ago. St. George police say 31-year-old Spencer Glen Monnett of Hurricane is being held on suspicion of first-degree felony counts of rape, a second-degree […]
PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — A search is underway in the mountains of western Wyoming for a 13-year-old boy from Utah who became separated from his Boy Scout group during a backcountry hiking trip. Sublette County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Travis Bingham says the search for Garrett Hunter, of Draper, intensified Sunday […]
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies have rescued a party of Boy Scouts who became stranded along a southwestern Wyoming river. The nine scouts and three adults from a Saratoga Springs, Utah scout troop began a rafting trip last week in the Jamestown area. They had traveled about 15 […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Andrew Tarbell had three saves to help the San Jose Earthquakes to a 0-0 tie with Real Salt Lake on Saturday night. The 24-year-old Tarbell had his first clean sheet of the season and the third of his career. It was San Jose’s first shutout […]
COVE FORT, Utah (AP) — An 11-day-old wildfire shifted direction Saturday, forcing closure of a 23-mile (37-kilometer) stretch of Interstate 70 near its junction with Interstate 15 in southern Utah. Officials said the closure of I-70 in both directions was due to safety concerns for both firefighters and the public. […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Even though Latino students make up the largest ethnic minority group in Utah, teachers and administrators of the same group are rare in the state’s schools, making up 2.5 percent of educators compared to 17 percent of the state’s student body. Latinos in Action and the […]
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — A Utah janitor has been charged with sexually abusing students at an elementary school south of Salt Lake City. The Daily Herald of Provo reports that Adrian Villar was charged Friday with aggravated sexual abuse of a child and lewdness involving a child. He is accused of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new deal between concerned locals and state trust land officials has scuttled a proposed gravel pit near Capitol Reef National Park. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration on Thursday approved a $525,000 bid from Teasdale residents for a land […]
