CARBON COUNTY, Utah-Per the official Twitter account of UDOT, utility work on U.S. Highway 6 in Carbon County will cause delays until mid-afternoon. This has caused the right lane of eastbound U.S. Highway 6 at milepost 236 (the junction with Utah S.R. 139) to be shut down until roughly 3:30 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State auditors examining the arrest of a Utah nurse who refused to let a police officer draw blood from an unconscious patient say Salt Lake City police should consider investigating complaints against officers more quickly. The audit released Tuesday says the department followed its policies, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers will hold a veto override session Wednesday afternoon to try to undo Gov. Gary Herbert’s rejection of two bills expanding their powers. The Republican governor in March vetoed a bill that would force the attorney general to release legal opinions requested by lawmakers […]
MAGNA, Utah (AP) — Police in a Salt Lake City suburb fatally shot a man Tuesday morning that they say was holding a woman hostage in his truck. Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke said Tuesday that the shooting occurred after 3 a.m. when the man called police and said he […]
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is praising a compromise plan that could nearly triple state education funding in five years. The Republican governor gave his remarks on Monday during a signing ceremony for the measure at an elementary school in suburban Salt Lake City. The measure will […]
MOAB, Utah (AP) — Utah authorities have identified a 15-year-old boy who died in a dirt bike accident in Kane Creek in Moab. The Deseret News reports San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldridge identified the teen as Truette Rhoda of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Eldridge says Rhoda had been visiting eastern Utah with […]
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 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say Utah residents have more than $38 million in unclaimed property. The Deseret News reports the Utah State Treasurer’s Office recently announced the Utah Unclaimed Property Division received more than $38.4 million in lost property at the end of 2017. Utah Treasurer David Damschen says the […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A 3-year-old girl was killed in a crash in Provo involving four vehicles. Provo Police Detective Nick Dupaix says an 8-month-old boy who was in a red Ford SUV with the 3-year-old was flown Sunday to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. Dupaix says the […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Two Utah jails dealt with 34 serious but non-fatal incidents last year, including inmate fights, seizures, falls from bunks, drug overdoses and mental health outbursts. There were 20 non-fatal but serious or life-threatening incidents at Weber County Jail in 2017 that required emergency paramedic calls and […]
