A person who stood up and shouted during a general conference session of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to draw attention to allegations of sexual abuse has been fined and ordered to stay away from the faith’s main temple. The Deseret News reports a judge levied the penalty […]
A woman who accused The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of covering for a former missionary leader who she says raped her in the 1980s says she may be ready to drop her lawsuit against the faith. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that McKenna Denson said Tuesday during a […]
A defense attorney has confirmed a Utah man who authorities say vandalized a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple will receive a competency evaluation before his case moves forward. The Herald Journal reported Monday that a defense attorney said he and his 34-year-old client of Smithfield, Utah, were […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah nurse who stole painkillers and infected several patients with hepatitis C has been sentenced to five years in prison. The Salt Lake Tribune reports 53-year-old Elet Neilson was sentenced Monday after previously pleading guilty in federal court to tampering with a consumer […]
Republican U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop said Monday he won’t run for Utah governor. He told the Deseret News that he is too old at 68 to run for another office, and he doesn’t need to be governor to validate his feeling of self worth. Bishop instead endorsed former Utah GOP […]
Members of the Utah House and Senate have criticized a comment by the state’s lieutenant governor drawing a comparison between abortion and slavery. Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox was one of three candidates asked during a Republican gubernatorial candidates forum Saturday if he would sign a bill defining life as beginning […]
Abby Huntsman says she’s leaving as a panelist on the daytime talk show ‘The View’ to help run her father’s campaign for governor of Utah. She’s been one of the five regular panelists on the show since September 2018, and her absence will leave Meghan McCain as the sole conservative […]
Friends, family and fellow police are mourning the death of the police chief in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy. Department officials said in a statement that William “Bill” O’Neal died suddenly on Sunday afternoon. He was with the department for more than 20 years before being named chief […]
LA MORA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s president says a monument will be put up to memorialize nine U.S.-Mexican dual citizens ambushed and slain last year by drug gang assassins along a remote road near New Mexico. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday there is an agreement to establish a monument […]
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah says he still supports President Donald Trump, despite Lee’s criticism of the lack of information given to members of Congress about the reasons for killing an Iranian military leader. Lee spokes Saturday in Sandy at the annual convention of […]
