SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Middle and high school students in Utah public schools are trying e-cigarettes as often as they do alcohol, according to a state survey. The Student Health and Risk Prevention survey conducted last year determined that about 23 percent of respondents who are in eighth grade […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Thousands of people marched to the Utah state Capitol on Saturday in separate events aimed at sparking changes to improve school safety but by different methods. Hundreds of pro-gun marchers took to the site first and peacefully rallied for fortified schools and more armed teachers. […]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge had a career-high 45 points, helping San Antonio overcome Donovan Mitchell’s 35-point performance for Utah in the Spurs’ 124-120 overtime victory over the Jazz on Friday night. The Spurs won their sixth straight and beat the Jazz for the first time in four meetings […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church said Friday it is investigating a second accusation of sexual assault against a former missionary leader dating back to the 1980s and vowed to “bring accountability” for what has occurred. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints didn’t say in its statement if […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert has signed 57 more bills, including a measure that allows medical marijuana to be grown in the state and sets up state-run dispensary for the drug to be handed out for research purposes or use by people who are terminally ill. Herbert’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney’s new financial disclosure forms show he earned more than $7.5 million last year and has a fortune worth up to $270 million. Romney filed a disclosure form Friday with the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee as he campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah rugby fans now have a local professional sports team that they can get behind. Fans welcomed the Utah Warriors rugby team and Major League Rugby on Thursday at an inaugural event at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy. Major League Rugby is the first […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s unemployment rate held steady last month at 3.1 percent. That’s according to new numbers released Friday by Utah’s Department of Workforce Services. The department says Utah’s February jobless rate remained lower than the national rate, which has hovered at 4.1 percent for several months. […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah appeals court has ruled a woman convicted of murder for driving her boyfriend during a deadly 2014 police chase can get a new trial on some lesser charges in her case. The Utah Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that jurors at Meagan Grunwald’s trial […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dixie State University in St. George has discontinued a $10 million deal to name its sports stadium after Utah-based Legend Solar. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday that university officials and executives from Legend Solar agreed to part ways in order to “allow Legend Solar to focus […]
