PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. marshal in Arizona says a fugitive couple suspected of murder escaped by tying up two security guards near the Utah state line. In an interview Thursday with Phoenix radio station KTAR-FM, David Gonzalez shared more details about how 56-year-old Blane Barksdale and 59-year-old Susan Barksdale escaped on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A report indicates that evidence such as drugs and guns is at risk of being stolen once the items reach the Utah court system. The Deseret News reported Wednesday that a state audit of six district courts and three juvenile courts found inadequate procedures to safeguard and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah student has died after collapsing during Army ROTC physical training. University spokesman Chris Nelson says senior film and media studies major Elva Torres was hospitalized after collapsing Tuesday morning on campus and was pronounced dead Wednesday. Cause of death was not […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Police have arrested a Utah man they say tortured and killed two kittens, using the body of one dead animal to beat the other. Records show 27-year-old Jordan Hagen was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail Monday on suspicion of torturing a companion […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police have arrested a teenager who they say brought a gun to his high school in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City Detective Michael Ruff said police were called to West High School Wednesday afternoon after another student told school officials they saw the suspect […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Salt Lake City police officer who was fired after he was caught on video roughly arresting a nurse who refused to draw blood from a patient has been hired to work at a jail in northern Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Detective Jeff Payne […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A newly appointed Trump administration official who oversees nearly a quarter-billion public acres in the U.S. West says his past support for selling federal lands is “irrelevant.” Acting Bureau of Land Management Director William Perry Pendley disavowed his longtime advocacy for federal land sales or transfers in an interview with […]
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A couple suspected in a Tucson killing have escaped after overpowering two security guards while being extradited from New York to Arizona, authorities said Tuesday. Tucson police said Blane Barksdale, 56, and his 59-year-old wife Susan Barksdale escaped Monday evening in Blanding, Utah, south of Moab. […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Health officials are raising alarm after receiving several reports of people interacting with rabies-carrying bats in southwest Utah. The Southwest Utah Public Health Department said in a Tuesday news release that most of the cases have occurred in residential neighborhoods. Individuals exposed to the deadly […]
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — Construction of a Northrop Grumman Corp. facility to be used for upgrading the U.S. military’s ground-based nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles has begun at Hill Air Force Base in northern Utah. Officials said during a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday that the facility is expected to deliver […]
