OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Seven teenagers were seriously injured when their car crashed off a mountain highway in northern Utah and landed in a tree 180 feet (55 meters) below. Weber County Sheriff’s Lt. Matt Jensen said one of the teens was in “extremely critical condition” Thursday after the car […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — America’s Freedom Festival at Provo will once again exclude an LGBT resource center for youths from its July 4 parade. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Stephenie Larsen, found of the group, Encircle, said Wednesday the nonprofit festival organization told the group that its proposed entry does not celebrate […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nearly two dozen Utah children died over the last year after state child welfare authorities became involved in their cases, marking a slight increase over the year before, according to a report released Wednesday. Four of the deaths between July 2017 and June 2018 were […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The family of a Mexican woman found dead in Provo are in Utah to meet with and pressure investigators to solve the case. KUTV-TV reports the mother, father, and two uncles of Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado arrived Tuesday night at Salt Lake City International Airport. It’s the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who says a former Mormon missionary leader raped her in the 1980s is accusing church officials of knowing about the man’s prior sexual misconduct before he was appointed to the powerful position. McKenna Denson’s attorneys allege in a court document filed Tuesday that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Ogden distillery owner will be able to buy liquor ads on Utah light rail trains and buses after all despite earlier beliefs that these ads were illegal. The confusion started last week when Steve Conlin, a managing partner with Ogden’s Own Distillery, asked how […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A fast-moving brush fire destroyed eight homes in the southern Utah tourist town of Moab. Moab city officials said in a news release Tuesday night that the fire started Tuesday night in a wooded area near an apartment complex. The blaze also destroyed two parking […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Early voting for Utah’s primary election has begun, with the marquee matchup pitting former presidential candidate Mitt Romney against state lawmaker Mike Kennedy to become the Republican nominee for Senate. Polls were scheduled to open in at least 11 locations around the state Tuesday. Early voting will […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap then-Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 refused to attend a hearing before the state parole board that could have helped her get out of prison earlier. A Utah parole board […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For a third straight year, Utah officials are warning residents that a toxic algae bloom has made parts of Utah Lake near Provo unsafe for recreation. State and county agencies said Tuesday that recent tests on water samples showed high levels of toxin-producing cyanobacteria in the […]
