SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man charged with accidentally starting a wildfire near Brian Head has asked a judge to move his case outside Iron County. The Deseret News reports Robert Ray Lyman’s attorney, Andrew Deiss, wrote in a motion filed last week that the blaze affected so many people […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former U.S. intelligence officer has pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to sell secrets to China. Ron Rockwell Hansen entered his plea in a federal court in his home state of Utah on Friday. Judge Paul Warner has ordered him held without bail […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A Utah judge is considering whether a teenager accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb at a high school after looking at Islamic State propaganda should stand trial as an adult. Defense attorneys argued Monday the 16-year-old has been bullied and suffers […]
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Officials say hikers in central Colorado spotted the wreckage of a plane that went missing after it left Erie for a destination in Utah. Park County Undersheriff Dave Wohlers says the body of the plane’s pilot, 67-year-old Quentin Aschoff, was found in the wreckage on Mosquito […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Police say they do not believe the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in Ogden in less than 24 hours are connected. Ogden police Lt. Tim Scott tells the Standard-Examiner the death of a man found Monday near 26th Street and Monroe Boulevard is being investigated […]
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — Police in Utah say a vehicle pursuit that ended in a crash that killed an 88-year-old motorist began with a traffic stop for a revoked registration. American Fork police Sgt. Josh Christensen said Monday that 21-year-old Trevor Pitcher feared police would impound his pickup truck […]
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah (AP) — A Utah man has been arrested for allegedly impersonating a corrections officer and threatening to kill two men he accused of being in the country illegally. Police said 41-year-old Jerred Martin Loftus and three other men approached a pair of men on a trail outside […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is calling the Legislature into a special session to approve revisions for a planned massive shipping hub in Salt Lake City. Herbert said at a press conference Monday that lawmakers will return to the Capitol Wednesday to vote on the plan, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah data indicates that more than half of all search warrants approved by state judges in the last year received less than three minutes of their consideration. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that amount of time concerns civil liberties advocates and defense attorneys, who say judges may […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ibson Barreto da Silva scored and Darwin Quintero added a goal and two assists to help Minnesota United beat Real Salt Lake 3-2 on Saturday night. Minnesota (7-11-1) has won two of its last three after losing three straight. Ibson rolled a cross from Quintero just inside […]
