ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Two Wyoming residents are trying to end the use of a gas chamber for euthanasia at an animal shelter. The Humane Society of the U.S. says Wyoming is one of just four states where shelters still use gas chambers rather than lethal injection to euthanize […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities have identified two people killed when a pickup truck rolled off a dirt road into a ravine in a crash that also injured five people. The Standard-Examiner reports that 49-year-old Manuel “Tony” Lopez and 25-year-old Leon Hoang were pronounced dead at the scene in rural Weber County […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Brigham Young University student is looking to reduce the environmental and economic costs of single-use plastic bags by pushing for a 10 cent fee. The Daily Herald reported Sunday that Annie Ayre has been reaching out to Provo officials and businesses after researching the effects of plastic […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Rescuers say the search for two brothers who were last seen fishing at a Utah reservoir is now a recovery operation. Authorities on Monday resumed looking for 70-year-old James “Jim” Gardiner and 61-year-old Mark Gardiner in Strawberry Reservoir but are not expecting to find them […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Police say a suspect is in custody in connection with a shooting in West Valley City that left one woman dead and a teenage boy injured. West Valley Police say 38-year-old Jayson Rue Chase has been booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on […]
HUNTSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Authorities say two people were killed and five others injured when ejected from a pickup truck that went off a dirt road and rolled multiple times as it went into a ravine in rural northern Utah. Weber County sheriff’s deputies responding to a 911 call early […]
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — Combat aircraft and support personnel from Hill Air Force Base in Utah are conducting training in several European countries. Hill officials said Friday the readiness exercise includes having F-35As land, refuel and re-arm with dummy munitions at forward airfields in Poland and conduct […]
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Marcelo Silva tied it in the 71st minute and Real Salt Lake held on for a 1-1 draw, ending Minnesota United’s four-game winning streak Saturday night. Jefferson Savarino gathered a clearance attempt and crossed it to Silva, who finished with a volley from the middle of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah psychologists would be prohibited from practicing so-called conversion therapy on LGBTQ kids under proposed state regulations that got an early nod of approval from a state licensing board on Thursday. The vote came after Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert called on state regulators to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers) of terrain in the West. The plan that was announced this summer and presented at public open houses, including […]
