SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man from an upstart group with beliefs in polygamy and doomsday has been charged with sodomy on a child and other counts. Prosecutors filed the charges Wednesday against 34-year-old Samuel Shaffer, one of two men accused of sexually abusing girls they considered wives. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The deadline to weigh in on a new federal plan that would loosen contentious endangered-species protections for Utah prairie dogs is looming. The public-comment period closes Thursday on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan that would allow prairie dogs to be killed or removed […]
Because of the complexity of his case, John Coltharp’s attorney has asked for another postponement of his preliminary hearing. Stating it would be a disservice to both the defense and the prosecution, Coltharp’s attorney, Paul Frischknecht, asked Judge Wallace Lee to once again move the preliminary hearing out about four […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Organizers of the Sundance Film Festival are rolling out guidelines aimed at preventing and reporting sexual misconduct. Organizers say they revised the festival’s code of conduct and partnered with Park City police and the Utah Attorney General’s Office for guidance. The state office is providing […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert is creating a task force that includes a high-ranking Mormon leader, the Utah Jazz owner and the leader of an LGBT rights group to address a troubling increase in teen suicides in Utah. Herbert unveiled the coalition Wednesday and called on the […]
ALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A malnourished dog believed to have survived for weeks in a barren Utah desert is on the mend after being found by a man riding off-road west of Salt Lake City. Matt Bentley said Tuesday the dog had lost all her hair to a skin […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials says a new federal grant will allow the state to offer more resources to victims waiting as their sexual assault kits are going through the testing process. Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Coordinator Krystal Hazlett said Tuesday that Utah’s Commission on Criminal and Juvenile […]
(Washington, DC) — Republican Congresswoman Mia Love met with President Trump Tuesday after she criticized him over the weekend for explicit remarks he allegedly made about several countries. Love is the first Haitian-American elected to Congress, and called the President’s comments about Haiti “racist” when asked. T he congresswoman says […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A legal opinion released by the Utah Attorney General’s Office says that the governor’s setting special election last year to replace Jason Chaffetz in Congress was legal. The opinion released by Sean Reyes’ office Tuesday followed months of dispute by legislators and the governor’s office […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City says it has fired four parking enforcement officers who took free pizza from a downtown pizzeria in exchange for not writing parking tickets for the owner and his employees. KUTV-TV reports that City Director of Public Service Lisa Shaffer says that the […]
