A Utah man has been convicted of strangling his neighbor after long being suspected of killing her but not charged until authorities learned he brought up the slaying as he tried to join a prison gang. A jury on Tuesday convicted the 35-year-old of aggravated murder for financial gain in […]
A Utah farming family has reached an agreement with land officials allowing permanent access to a portion of private land along a trail bordering Zion National Park. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday that the Bulloch family owns about a mile stretch of the 16-miles Zion Narrows Trail that starts outside […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new report says the high school graduation rate in Utah this year has increased for the seventh consecutive year. The state Board of Education has released data Monday stating that 43,500 students graduated from district and charter high schools representing about 90% who entered […]
TOOELE, Utah (AP) — Utah authorities have found a notarized letter in an apartment that they believe was written by a man whose body had been in a freezer for a decade. Police say the note discovered Monday says his wife didn’t kill him. The body of the 69-year-old man was […]
KAYSVILLE, Utah (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been one of the largest sponsors of the Boy Scouts of America for decades but is making its split official Jan. 1. The Utah-based faith will deal another blow to the struggling organization when it pulls out […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is defending how it uses and invests member donations after a former church employee alleged in a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the faith had improperly built a $100 billion investment portfolio using member donations […]
Boys Basketball Non-Region MT. PLEASANT, Utah-Richards Isaacs Jr. posted 21 points and the Wasatch Academy Tigers pounded Tsinghua, China 101-59 Tuesday in non-region boys basketball action. Richie Saunders added 18 points in the win for the Tigers. Girls Basketball Region 14 SPANISH FORK, Utah-Jadee Dutson’s 12 points led the Delta […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Jerrick Harding tossed in 22 points and Weber State rolled to a 109-62 victory over Bethesda on Tuesday night. Harding hit 4 of 6 from 3-point range and all five of his shots inside the arc for the Wildcats (4-6). Cody John added 17 points, while […]
Donovan Mitchell scored 30 points, including eight as the Utah Jazz closed the game with a 19-5 run for a 109-102 win over the Orlando Magic. With the Jazz trailing 97-90, Mitchell awoke a moribund offense and energized the crowd with a highlight-reel dunk in traffic. That sparked the clinching […]
Early in the afternoon of Dec. 17 police responded to a crash near the water tower in Richfield. Five juveniles were riding in a Jeep on Forest Road 096 just West of Richfield when it appears the driver lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle went up a slight embankment […]
