SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake County prosecutors have decided against charging a Unified Police Department officer in an April 17 fatal shooting in which a man was killed while holding an ex-girlfriend hostage in a pickup truck. The District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday it believed any court proceedings […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A 48-year-old former evidence technician has pleaded guilty to charges accusing her of eating and consuming methamphetamine while working in the Weber County Sheriff’s Office’s evidence locker. Candice Barbara Follum pleaded guilty Tuesday to 20 counts of destroying or altering public records and 20 counts of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper, is telling skeptical Democrats that an agreement reached between Mormon leaders, lawmakers and marijuana proponents wasn’t done to sabotage the medical marijuana ballot initiative. Unlike Proposition 2, which would legalize medical marijuana for individuals in Utah with qualifying medical […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A sex offender who killed a University of Utah student he briefly dated once said at a parole hearing that he was a womanizer who manipulated women to get what he wanted. Melvin Rowland said he was attracted to teenage girls and vulnerable women, and […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah man accused of helping a teenage girl kill herself and filming the act because he was fascinated with death has pleaded guilty to child abuse homicide. In accepting a plea deal Tuesday in a Provo court, prosecutors say, 19-year-old Tyerell Joe Przybycien of Spanish […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 38 points to lead the Utah Jazz to a 100-89 victory over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night in a game James Harden left with an apparent injury. The Rockets got within five points midway through the fourth quarter but Harden headed to the […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pac-12 athletic directors endorsed changes to the conference’s replay review system for football games, including developing a manual with clear protocols and procedures, after a league executive influenced a targeting call during a game last month. Commissioner Larry Scott ordered an internal review of the centralized […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Climatologists said Wednesday that conditions are right for an El Nino weather pattern to develop that could bring wetter-than-normal conditions this winter in drought-stricken areas of the southwestern U.S. But they also note there is no guarantee that an El Nino event would bring more rain […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — Taylor Swift has donated $15,500 to a GoFundMe account of a fan whose family is struggling with medical bills. Sadie Bartell’s mother has been in a coma for three years, and the family is worried about losing their Orem, Utah, home because of mounting medical bills. […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Residents in Utah and Nevada, two non-lottery playing states, are flocking to nearby Beaver Dam, Arizona, to hopefully get their hands on a winning lottery ticket. The Spectrum reports people on Monday were lined up outside of the doors of the Beaver Dam Station & Bar and […]
