SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors say Utah’s first female police officer fatally shot on duty was killed because a Utah man refused to be arrested after selling methamphetamine. Roberto Roman went on trial Monday in her death for the second time. He was charged with killing a law […]
When Snow College music student Kyle Alm of Sandy entered his composition into a Society of Composers Region 4 Student Conference, he never expected it to be selected for performance. But against all odds, his composition was chosen out of 200 entries. Alm and Snow professor Trent Hanna traveled to […]
Two Sanpete County drivers were transported to Sanpete Valley Hospital on Wednesday with non-life threatening injuries following an accident on SR-132. About 3:35 p.m., a 2003 Dodge Neon driven by Brennon Golding of Ephraim was southbound when it struck a vehicle that had stopped for a school bus that had […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Per KSTU FOX-13 in Salt Lake City, Utah House Minority Leader Brian King unveiled a bill which he states “promotes the teaching of healthy relationships.” Furthermore, it offers an option for expanded instruction concerning contraception and sexually transmitted diseases. This legislation, House Bill 215, was filed in […]
(Washington, DC) — Most Utahns say Senator Orrin Hatch shouldn’t run for an eighth term. A poll by The Salt Lake Tribune and Hinckley Institute of Politics shows eight out of ten Utahns would pick former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman over Hatch if an election were held now. Just more […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s state government is the second most effective in the U.S. for making policies that produce positive results. A new study by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the MacArthur Foundation says the state is a leader on using evidence to form policy and budget decisions. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker wants residents to be able to pass down their social media and email accounts to relatives as easily as they do their belongings after they die. Lawmakers are expected to consider the plan during a judiciary committee meeting Thursday afternoon. Utah considered […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A gay rights advocacy group wants a judge to halt Utah state laws it says discriminate against LGBT students by restricting talk about homosexuality in schools. The National Center for Lesbian Rights argues in a request for a preliminary injunction filed Wednesday that the laws […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker’s proposal to require that all evidence kits collected by police after a sexual assault be tested would give law enforcement 30 days to send the rape kits to a crime lab. The bill from Salt Lake City Democratic Rep. Angela Romero was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers have voted to recognize the at least 474 people who died while in state custody and were not given a proper burial. The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/2jjmQAa ) that options for patients with mental illness a century ago were limited, and many were […]
