SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has admitted to beating his estranged wife to death with a crowbar and pummeling his 13-year-old daughter with the same tool. The Deseret News reports 55-year-old Walter Eugene Brantzeg of Salt Lake City pleaded guilty to the crimes Thursday as part of […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The Huntsman family plans to donate $12 million toward new professorships at Utah State University’s business school. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday that the endowment is in honor of late family patriarch Jon M. Huntsman Sr., a billionaire chemical industrialist who died in February 2018. Jon Hunstsman […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge is ordering a Utah man to stand trial on aggravated murder and other charges in the deaths of two teenagers whose bodies were found tossed down a mine shaft. Judge Derek Pullan handed down the decision Monday in the case of Jerrod Baum, […]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Pac-12 has no plans to change its football scheduling policies and philosophies, including playing nine conference games, to enhance the league’s chances to place a team in the four-team playoff. Commissioner Larry Scott said Wednesday conference coaches and administrators discussed during meetings this week whether […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The state liquor commission says beer will not be allowed at a Salt Lake City karaoke business or an Ogden ax-throwing venue because neither fits the definition of a “recreational amenity,” under a law that takes effect in mid-May. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the […]
CLEARFIELD, Utah (AP) — Utah prosecutors have declined to file charges against a store owner who fatally punched another man. News outlets reported that officials from the Davis County Attorney’s Office announced April 18 that they will not charge the owner for the altercation resulting in the death of 39-year-old […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah autism researcher who accused college administrators of retaliating against her for raising concerns about data privacy has been awarded an additional $217,000 by a federal judge. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday that the judge decided April 25 that Judith Zimmerman […]
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A Utah filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced an Oscar-winning movie in the mid-1980s has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a child. Sterling Van Wagenen entered the plea Tuesday during a court hearing in American Fork, Utah, south of Salt Lake […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge will allow a former Disney Channel actor to order groceries online while he’s awaiting trial on charges alleging he tried to have sex with a 13-year-old boy, but she rebuffed requests to further ease restrictions on his home detention. A lawyer for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah high school English teacher who has been in prison for the last four years for sexually abusing three students has been granted parole. Utah Board of Pardons and Parole spokesman Dennis Moxon said Tuesday that 39-year-old Brianne Altice will be released Sept. […]
