SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal investigators say a tour bus crash that threw more than a dozen people onto a remote Utah highway in 2019 and killed four Chinese tourists highlights a lack of safety standards for bus roofs and windows. The National Transportation Safety Board released its final […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise. The federal judge handing down the sentence Thursday described the 2017 crime as violent and brutal. Prosecutors had sought life in prison for Kenneth […]
On June 1, Garfield County received a call regarding a 21 year old male who has been hiking from Mexico, over eight hundred miles, and was on the Hayduke Trail of BLM Grand Staircase when he fell off a cliff. He fell approximately 60 feet landing on his face and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s governor is asking citizens to pray for rain this weekend to relieve the state from its drought. Gov. Spencer Cox released a statement Thursday calling on Utah citizens to pray for divine intervention as an excessive heat warning has been issued for areas of […]
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — Davis County sheriff’s deputies and other department employees are prohibited under a new office policy from enforcing certain measures that could infringe on the right to bear arms. The Standard-Examiner reported that Sheriff Kelly Sparks says the policy is meant as a preventive measure and counterweight […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The father of a Utah woman beaten to death by her husband on an Alaska cruise in 2017 told a judge he would consider it justice if the man went to prison for the rest of his life. Jeff Hunt spoke at a sentencing hearing Wednesday […]
Ten young ladies from Sevier County will be competing to represent the county at the Miss Sevier County scholarship pageant on Saturday June 5. Participants include Aubrey Torgersen, Rachel Krueger, Aubree Robinson, Millie Ice, Bella Bagley, Tricia Thalman, Kinley Adams, Gillyin Jenson, Shaylee Jackman and Sierra Lani Gleave. Each of […]
WEST VALLEY CITY (AP) — Two Utah girls aged 9 and 4 got behind the wheel of a car and crashed into a semi tractor-trailer as they tried to drive to California early Wednesday morning. Police say the girls and the truck driver emerged uninjured from the crash, which happened […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say an Arizona man drowned at Lake Powell recently when winds prevented him from swimming back to his boat. The 34-year-old Subrahmaniyan Mathimohan died May 22. He was from Phoenix. He drowned after he slid off the rental house boat’s slide without a life […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police appealed again Tuesday to teachers, grandparents and adults who work with children to help identify a slain child whose body was found by hikers near a highway between Las Vegas and rural Pahrump. Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Spencer says tips have been checked in […]
