SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The deputy director of the Utah Department of Environment Quality will head the agency temporarily. Scott Baird will serve as interim director until a permanent replacement can be found. He succeeds Alan Matheson, who is stepping down July 1. Gov. Gary Hebert announced Baird’s appointment […]
A man accused of raping a teen girl is now facing new allegations of child sex abuse. According to Sanpete County prosecutors, 52-year-old David Pemberton groped a 14-year-old boy working at his cabin in Hideaway Valley back in the summer of 2017. Records show investigators later interviewed a second teen […]
The Memphis Grizzlies traded away the final piece of the franchise’s best years on Wednesday, sending veteran point guard Mike Conley to the Utah Jazz for a trio of players, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The Grizzlies swapped Conley for forward Jae Crowder, guard/forward Kyle […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new anti-abortion group is launching a push to end all elective abortions in Utah. Abortion-Free Utah rallied Wednesday at the state capitol to start the effort to ban the procedure and push Planned Parenthood out of the state. Planned Parenthood CEO Karrie Galloway says […]
WELLS, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on a train derailment that closed U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada for more than an hour (all times local): 12:35 p.m. A 60-mile (96-kilometer) stretch of U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada has reopened after a train derailment caused a potential hazmat scare. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s top education officials are going back to the standardized school testing company they moved on from a year ago after they abruptly canceled a contract with a replacement company whose system led to a flurry of technological glitches. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that state assistant […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who killed his friend in 1997 but wasn’t convicted until more than a decade later is asking for parole. The Deseret News reported Tuesday that 67-year-old Alan Lee Marx told the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole at his hearing last week that he […]
HYRUM, Utah (AP) — Officials say a massive fire at a storage unit complex south of Logan caused millions of dollars in damage. Investigators haven’t determined what sparked the fire over the weekend at the Armor Storage in Hyrum. Local fire Chief Kevin Maughan tells the Herald Journal in Logan that two […]
LOGAN, Utah-Wednesday, three Utah State football standouts were named as preseason All-Americans by Athlon Sports. They include senior kicker Dominik Eberle, junior receiver Savon Scarver and junior linebacker David Woodward. The three preseason All-Americans are the most for any Group of 5 school. Scarver, a 5-11 190-pound receiver/kick returner out […]
A prescribed burn on Monroe Mountain in Piute County will intensify on Wednesday and Thursday. The U.S. Forest Service is planning to burn approximately 200 acres Wednesday on the South side of the mountain. On Thursday an additional 2,000 acres will be burned with a combination of hand and aerial […]
