(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s law enforcement agencies are cracking down on distracted driving. Salt Lake City Police Officer Lucas Johnson was among the 100 members of law enforcement who were pulling over distracted drivers yesterday. The Utah Department of Public Safety says there were more than 53-hundred distracted […]
(Washington, DC) — Republican Senator Mitt Romney was one of three members of his party to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Senators Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins all crossed party lines in a narrow 53-to-47 vote. Romney rejected criticisms from other Republicans […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Transit Authority says “Free Fare February” brought more riders onto UTA buses and trains. Final numbers for the month-long free fare event were announced yesterday. The UTA says ridership increased 16-percent on weekdays, 58-percent on Saturdays and 33-percent on Sundays. A spokesman says […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Hundreds of students at Salt Lake City’s West High School were marked absent from second hour yesterday as they held a walkout and rally with transgender students. The exit from class follows the legislative override of Governor Cox’s veto of a bill preventing transgender girls […]
(Provo, UT) — Utah County prosecutors rested their case in the high-profile double-murder trial of Jerrod Baum. Investigators say Baum stabbed Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson to death in December 2017 before he threw their bodies down a mine shaft outside of Eureka. The suspect’s former girlfriend, Morgan Henderson, testified […]
(St. George, UT) — Zion National Park has closed The Narrows indefinitely due to high water from the snow run-off. That is in the Virgin River in the park with walls one-thousand-feet high and in some places only 20 feet wide. The Riverside Walk remains open. Visitors are also warned […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a Utah woman has died after a fall at the Grand Canyon. Park officials say 34-year-old Margaret Osswald of Salt Lake City was near Ledges Camp along the Colorado River on Monday evening when she fell about 20 feet and sustained […]
The Juab County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a person of interest in an ongoing investigation. In a post to their Facebook page, they shared a picture of the individual and asked anyone with information on their identity to contact the Sheriff’s Office at 435-623-1344, or […]
(Beaver, UT) — Beaver County Sheriff’s deputies alerted parents about a student with a gun outside Beaver High School. In a safety warning, deputies said a witness reported seeing a teen point a handgun at another teen Monday before they both went inside the school building. Deputies found the two […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — University of Utah police are investigating after a campus symbol was vandalized last week. The LGBT Resource Center announced yesterday that duct tape containing hateful messages was placed on the “Block U” on March 31st, which was also Transgender Day of Visibility. The Block U […]
