SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A panel of Utah lawmakers has endorsed a bill that would increase the penalty for intentionally killing a police dog. The Deseret News reports that the proposal would bump intentionally or knowingly killing a police dog from a third-degree felony to a second-degree felony. Police […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers setting this year’s state budget estimate they will have more than $500 million in surplus tax collections to work with. Legislators released estimates Wednesday showing a $453 million surplus to spend on ongoing costs like salaries and $128 million for one-time projects like […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Legislature unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday honoring retiring U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch. The resolution declared the day “Orrin G. Hatch Day” in honor of Hatch and his 40-plus years in the U.S. Senate. The Republican senator was at the state Capitol during the votes […]
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in northeast Nevada are investigating an anonymous threat that prompted the closure of the high school in Elko. The Elko Daily Free Press reports Elko County School Superintendent Jeff Zander decided to cancel classes and close Elko High on Wednesday based on the threat received […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers are working to find out more about deaths in Utah’s jails after a series of inmate deaths last year. Republican Sen. Todd Weiler’s proposal requires jails and prisons to submit annual reports on jail deaths, how they treat inmates who are addicted to […]
(Iron County, UT) — The leader of a doomsday cult is pleading guilty to child rape and child abuse charges. Samuel Shaffer faces at least 25 years in prison after agreeing to the plea deal in Iron County Wednesday. Child kidnapping and additional abuse counts were dropped in the agreement […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Those who study Utah’s snowpack say the recent winter storm has done little to help improve the state’s water supply. Hydrologists with the National Weather Service say the snowpack increased about three-percent from snowfall on Sunday and Monday. Utah reservoirs are currently at about 80-percent […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new task force created to attempt to slow a troubling rise of teen suicides in Utah recommended Tuesday that officials ratchet up public messaging to implore gun-owing parents to keep firearms locked up. That was part of a series of recommendations unveiled by a […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A Utah man involved in an officer-involved shooting on Christmas Eve has pleaded not guilty. The Spectrum reports that 38-year-old Benjamin Dee Wilcken’s attorney entered the plea on Tuesday. Wilcken is charged with second-degree assault against law enforcement, second-degree terroristic threats and third-degree possession of […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The owner of a Utah gun store says he has taken down a sign with an advertisement for an assault rifle after a number of complaints from what he calls “anti-gun people.” Darin Kendall, operations manager for Impact Guns in Ogden, says the ad for the […]
