DRAPER, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman is facing charges after authorities say she was seen carrying a bucket at the scene of a brush fire in Draper. Crystal LeBaron was arrested this week in connection with a fire Tuesday that threatened three homes. No injuries were reported, but some […]
(Undated) — Former BYU standout Jimmer Fredette is weighing his free agency options after leaving the Warriors’ summer league team. Fredette played two games for Golden State in California before leaving the team yesterday. He will not suit up for them in Las Vegas. Fredette appeared in six regular season […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Utah man and a Florida man have been convicted of running a Nevada ring aimed at creating and selling synthetic marijuana known as “spice.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada announced Wednesday that Charles Burton Ritchie of Park City, Utah, and Benjamin Galecki of Pensacola, […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A wildlife rescue in northern Utah is commending a man who found a creative way to rescue an abandoned baby bird while out drinking with friends. Staff at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah say they received a call last weekend from a man who […]
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — Forest rangers and residents are worried that an increase of visitors to Salt Lake County’s backcountry is resulting in more human feces in watershed streams amid E. coli fears. Central Wasatch Commission officials are questioning if visitation to the Wasatch canyons has reached a tipping […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Advocates have unveiled a marker to memorialize patients who died in Utah’s first asylum. KSL-TV reports the stone plaque was made public at a ceremony on Tuesday at the Salt Lake City Cemetery’s B plat and bears the name of 55 people who died at the facility. […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Utah State’s Museum of Anthropology is hosting an exhibit by a key cartoonist and women’s rights activist of the U.S. suffrage movement. “Women Speaking to Women: The Political Art of Nina Allender” highlights the works of a cartoonist who worked for The Suffragist, a weekly news […]
(Tacoma, WA) — The Bees blew a six-run lead as they fell to the Rainiers 13-10 in Tacoma. Ty Kelly and Taylor Ward drove in two runs apiece in defeat. Zac Ryan was charged with the loss. The Bees play host to the El Paso Chihuahuas tonight at Smith’s Ballpark.
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Miye Oni posted 17 points as the Jazz topped the Spurs 84-81 to close out the Salt Lake City Summer League. Willie Reed posted 14 points and 16 rebounds for Utah, which went 2-and-1 during the three-day tournament. The Jazz now prep for the Las […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Researchers at Brigham Young University are helping with a NASA-sponsored project measuring the electrical charge and size of dust particles on Mars. The BYU group is nearing completion of the three-year project that hopes to understand the climate of the Red Planet and the impact the […]
