Two men are lucky to be alive after the car they were in rolled during a rainstorm last Wednesday. Tuaoloa Filipo, 32, of Layton was driving a 2008 Honda Accord on SR-132 at a high rate of speed approaching Pigeon Hollow Junction. As the car entered the turn, it went […]
Will he or won’t he represent himself? That seemed to be the question on Wednesday as John Coltharp made a request to represent himself in his child kidnapping and sexual abuse case in Sixth District Court. Coltharp is facing four felony charges, the most serious being a 1st degree felony […]
A new Miss Mt. Pleasant was crowned on Saturday evening, and she and her court will represent the city this year at numerous county events. Ally Brotherson, daughter of Rich and Molly Brotherson, is the new queen, receiving the crown from outgoing Miss Mt. Pleasant, Rylee McKay. Brotherson’s platform is […]
Four young ladies from Mt. Pleasant will compete for the opportunity to represent the city in the Miss Mt. Pleasant scholarship pageant scheduled for Saturday. Contestants will be judged in four areas: evening wear/onstage question, lifestyle and fitness, private interview and talent. Contestants include Alexis Wright, daughter of Carl and […]
Despite receiving more than 70% of the votes on Thursday night at the Sanpete County Republican convention, Ed Sunderland will face Justin Atkinson in a primary election for the open Sanpete County Commission seat. Sunderland received slightly more than the required 70% of the votes cast by almost 250 county […]
Five members of the Sanpete Juab Major Crimes Task Force were recognized for their recent work on the case of two missing teens. The five, two from Juab County and three from Sanpete County, received the Lux et Veritas award for spending over 2,500 man hours on the case since […]
A traffic stop in Manti proved to be the break police needed to solve the missing persons case of two teens whose bodies were discovered in an abandoned mine in Utah County. Jerrod Baum, 41, has been arrested and charged with the grisly murder of Riley Powell, 18, and Breezy […]
Samuel Shaffer, the professed prophet of the Knights of the Crystal Blade doomsday cult, made an appearance in Sixth District Court in Manti on Wednesday. Shaffer was there for a waiver hearing on first and second degree felony sodomy on a child, child bigamy and obstruction of justice charges stemming […]
A capital murder case was finally settled in Manti on Wednesday when 36-year old Steven Crutcher was sentenced for the murder of his cellmate at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison in 2013. The case had been schedule to go to trial in a few weeks, but Crutcher instead […]
It appears the cases against a Spring City man accused of kidnapping his own children and marrying the young daughter of a cult leader are headed for trial. Because of the number of witnesses and the volume of evidence collected in the case against John Coltharp, Sanpete County Attorney Kevin […]
