SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Teenagers fleeing polygamous communities would get more legal protection from parents who could expose them to sexual abuse under a proposal approved by a panel of Utah lawmakers. Republican Walt Brooks said Friday that if a teenager runs away from home, anyone they run to […]
Utah Republican Rep. Mia Love says she’s open to discussing all solutions to prevent the gun violence and shooting in schools. Love told Utah’s Legislature on Thursday that she would support a ban on bump stocks like the ones used in last year’s Las Vegas massacre and a beefed-up background […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Brigham Young University football player and coach has sued several window blind makers over what he alleges is a faulty product that caused the death of his daughter. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Reno Mahe and his wife, Sunny, filed the lawsuit on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two teens in Utah have been arrested for making separate threats that police say alluded to potential school shootings. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the teens were arrested despite law enforcement officials concluding the threats were not serious. The newspaper reports a 17-year-old boy was […]
NEW YORK (AP) — MetLife is joining other U.S. companies in severing ties to the National Rifle Association following a school massacre in Parkland, Florida. The insurer terminated discounts that had been offered to NRA members on the NRA website . Enterprise Holdings has already ended its discount program and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker won unanimous committee approval for a proposal to add $5 million to a fund designed to lure movie and television film crews to the state. Republican state Sen. Jake Anderegg of Lehi told the Deseret News he knows incentives in his bill […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Senate president says state troopers have closed an investigation into a lawmaker’s strange encounter with a woman outside his hotel room without determining who the woman was or what happened. Senate President Wayne Niederhauser said Thursday that Utah’s Highway Patrol, which provides security to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Navajos who once worried they would have to drive hours to cast their ballots in Utah say a court settlement is a step forward as tribes challenge what they call discriminatory voting practices around the United States. The agreement that requires tribally accessible polling places […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee says there’s no way to ban or buyback AR-15-style assault rifles like the kind used by a shooter at a Florida high school last week without also banning hunting rifles. He made the comments Thursday in response to a question […]
SPRINGDALE, Utah (AP) — Zion National Park in Utah is closing access to 13 popular rock-climbing cliffs as part of an annual effort to protect sensitive nesting sites for peregrine falcons. The National Park Service officials announced this week that climbing routes will close March 1 while wildlife biologists to […]
