SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing leaders of brushing aside rape allegations against a former missionary training center director dating from 1984. Many people who could have testified about what happened in the 1980s have died or have only […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The former head of Utah Valley University’s anti-discrimination office has filed a lawsuit accusing the school of unfairly firing her after she raised concerns about potential discrimination against women and non-Mormons. Melissa Frost said Tuesday that she faced retaliation for whistleblowing about the university’s hiring […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Authorities say the body of a Utah man who went missing last year has been found. The Daily Herald reports investigators with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office recovered the body of Steven Reed Terry from a farm near Spanish Fork on Monday. Sgt. Spencer Cannon says Terry went […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge says U.S. wildlife officials acted illegally in 2015 when they denied Endangered Species Act protection for a distinct population of “bi-state” sage grouse in California and Nevada. U.S. District Judge Joseph Spero ruled in San Francisco Tuesday the Fish and Wildlife Service ignored […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah family has video from a baby cam of an intruder who entered their home, exposed himself and masturbated in a bedroom where a mother and infant child were sleeping. Layton police released a clip of the footage Tuesday in which the unidentified man is partially […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California on Tuesday struck down the city of Oakland’s ban on coal shipments at a proposed cargo terminal, siding with a developer who wants to use the site to transport Utah coal to Asia. In a scathing ruling, U.S. District Judge Vince […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Six Western states and several national industry groups have lined up against Washington state in a legal battle over its decision to reject permits for a massive proposed coal-export terminal on the Columbia River. Utah-based Lighthouse Resources, which operates coal mines in Montana and Wyoming, sued Washington […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say a vandal turned himself in after receiving backlash on social media for defacing a rock at a popular hiking spot in Zion National Park. Authorities say the visitor wrote his Instagram username on a rock at Angels Landing in the southwestern Utah park. […]
RICHFIELD, Utah-Per an official press release, Mid-Utah Radio’s own Joe Gentry is going into the Utah Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Thursday evening at Richfield, “Uncle Joe,” as he is known throughout the greater Richfield area, will be honored with induction into this elite club. Gentry, who turns 101 on July […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The girlfriend of a man accused of killing a teenage couple has taken a plea deal on drug and weapon charges that stem from an arrest that led her to finally acknowledge she knew of the whereabouts of the bodies. Utah online court records show […]
