SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Medical marijuana backers in Utah are gearing up for an intense battle that could test the nationwide trend in support of medicinal pot. Their initiative appears headed to the November ballot after opponents on Monday withdrew their court challenge which had been the last legal […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap then-Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 has been denied early parole. The decision announced Monday night by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole was expected after the 72-year-old […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has decided to enforce tougher rules on its predator control program to prevent criminal abuses and obtain better data. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the overhaul comes after the agency found that a couple had turned in 95 coyote scalps from […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities have evacuated 200 to 300 Utah homes because of a growing wildfire near a popular fishing reservoir. Jason Curry of the Utah Division of Forest, Fire and State Lands says high winds helped grow the fire to about 47 square miles (122 square kilometers) […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge is declaring that Utah’s San Juan County has made appropriate reforms after finding its previous political boundaries racially gerrymandered. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Judge Robert Shelby declined Monday to reopen the case in response to concerns from Navajo residents in the state’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Opponents of Utah’s medical marijuana ballot initiative are dropping their lawsuit seeking to prevent the question from being put to voters in November. The action by Drug Safe Utah Monday clears the path to placing the initiative on the ballot. Coalition attorney Blake Ostler declined […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has filed a pair of lawsuits claiming state and Salt Lake City officials have violated his free speech rights by blocking him on social media. Aaron Johnson told the Salt Lake Tribune that he enjoys ribbing politicians online. The 53-year-old says he’s been bolstered […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A pilot who died in the crash of a small plane on Lake Mountain in Utah has been identified as an Idaho man. Authorities say 48-year-old Tracy Paul Roesler of Nampa was the only person aboard the two-engine plane. Utah County Sheriff’s officials say the wreckage […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police in Cottonwood City say they’re investigating the vandalism of Mormon churches on four consecutive nights. They say four churches have had rocks propelled through the front glass doors since Monday, possibly with the use of a wrist-rocket. Cottonwood Heights police say there’s no evidence […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A wildfire burning in hot and dry conditions in Utah has forced the evacuations of a handful of seasonal cabins near a popular fishing reservoir. Jason Curry of the Utah Division of Forest, Fire and State Lands said Monday that the fire is about 10 […]
