CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Officials say vandals have etched an image of an eye onto a sandstone rock formation at Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park. Park visitors reported the graffiti on the Temple of the Moon monolith in the remote Cathedral Valley on June 6. Park officials […]
DENVER (AP) — A welcome surge of melting snow is pouring out of the Rocky Mountains and into the drought-stricken rivers of the southwestern U.S. Enough snow fell last winter to delay a water shortage in the region, but the runoff is threatening to push some streams over their banks. […]
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Utah who suffered a head injury in a fall from a home’s second-story window is doing “remarkably well.” Spanish Fork Lt. Brandon Anderson told the Daily Herald that the boy was conscious and had “improved immensely” at a Salt Lake City […]
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A former bishop with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been sentenced to four months in jail after being found guilty of sexual abuse of one teenage boy and lewdness with another. The Deseret News reports that during sentencing Wednesday in the […]
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — A northern Utah pool is set to re-open more than a week after an accident sickened dozens with chlorine gas. The Daily Herald reports the Pleasant Grove Veterans Memorial Pool is expected to welcome swimmers back on Thursday. About 50 people were sickened June 4 […]
LEEDS, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a driver alone in a vehicle was killed when it struck a horse on Interstate 15 in southwestern Utah. The Highway Patrol says the wreck occurred near Leeds in Washington County early Thursday morning before troopers arrived in response to a report of horses […]
Four people from California are now in jail in Sevier County facing multiple charges after attempting fraud in Richfield Monday. According to Richfield City Police Chief Trent Lloyd, the group was working their way up the I-15 corridor hitting Home Depots as they went. Lloyd says they were using fraudulently […]
ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Utah man on suspicion of shooting an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy and they say he may have killed another man an hour earlier. Long Beach police arrested 30-year-old Rhett Nelson of St. George, Utah, on Tuesday and turned him over […]
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Utah boy suffered a severe head injury after he fell from a second-story window. Authorities say the child fell about 13 feet (4 meters) from the bedroom window of a Spanish Fork house at about noon Tuesday. Spanish Fork police say […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Relatives of two Utah teenagers who were killed and dumped in an abandoned mine shaft are calling for prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against the man charged in their deaths. Jerrod Baum pleaded not guilty Monday to aggravated murder and other charges in the deaths […]
