SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) — The Salt Lake City Council will consider calls to redirect a portion of its police budget to community services amid national protests against police brutality. Several council members have said they are open to discussing how to “defund” the city’s police department […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Utah Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has tested negative for COVID-19, several days after his campaign revealed one of its staffers had the coronavirus. Huntsman is one of four Republican gubernatorial candidates on the June primary ballot. Campaign manager Lisa Roskelley said Monday that […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — An investigative report by the U.S. Army found that an Afghan commando who fatally shot a Utah mayor serving in the National Guard in 2018 had planned the killing for weeks. The report that was obtained through a public records request by the Standard-Examiner newspaper in […]
The parents of a University of Utah student who was shot and killed on campus in 2018 have filed another lawsuit against the school. Jill and Matt McCluskey allege in a lawsuit filed Monday that the university violated the state constitution by dismissing their daughter’s requests for help. Track athlete […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney is the latest prominent Republican to cast doubt on his support for President Donald Trump’s reelection. The Utah senator and 2012 GOP presidential nominee said Monday that he would “stay quiet” about whether he’ll back another candidate. His open acknowledgment of hesitance in supporting Trump […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say an infant was in critical condition after police rescued the boy from a submerged car in a Utah pond. Police responded around 11:15 p.m. Sunday to Golf in the Round in South Salt Lake and found a car upside down in a retention […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney marched Sunday in the nation’s capital in a protest against police mistreatment of minorities, making him the first Republican senator known to do so. Romney, who represents Utah, posted a tweet showing him wearing a mask as he walked with Black Lives Matter […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah logged its largest single-day increase in the number of COVID-19 cases Friday, with many of those coming in connection with an outbreak at a meatpacking plant in northern Utah. Health officials are investigating the “ongoing outbreak” at the unnamed facility and expect to see […]
Body camera footage shows Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 20 shots at a man as he ran away. Twenty-two-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was shot and killed May 23 after police who were responding to a call of a gun threat chased him when he ran from a motel. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dozens of doctors, nurses and other health care workers and students knelt in support of anti-police brutality protests in Salt Lake City on Friday. About 100 people in Utah joined healthcare professionals around the country using the label White Coats for Black Lives to honor […]
