SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah high school English teacher has been released from prison after spending the last four years behind bars for sexually abusing three students. Utah Board of Pardons and Parole spokesman Dennis Moxon said Wednesday that 40-year-old Brianne Altice was released Tuesday as planned. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to lying about buying the firearm used to kill college athlete Lauren McCluskey has been sentenced to three years of supervised release. The 22-year-old Nathan Daniel Vogel said Wednesday during a hearing in Salt Lake City that he accepts responsibility […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A harmful algae bloom is closing the North Beach at Mantua Reservoir in northern Utah. The Herald Journal reports the reservoir east of Brigham City has been under a “warning advisory” since mid-August, and on Monday health department officials increased the warning level on the north […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Businessman Jeff Burningham is throwing his hat into the ring for Utah governor in 2020, becoming the second Republican candidate to officially enter what could become a crowded field. Burningham said Tuesday that he’s a political outsider who would bring his business skills to the […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Police have identified the body that was found in a northern Utah storage unit last week. Ogden police said the human remains have been identified as 41-year-old Alice Ann Valdez. Court records show Valdez had previously pleaded guilty to several drug and trespassing crimes in Utah. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a woman was killed when a FrontRunner commuter train in metro Salt Lake City struck her car stopped on the tracks. Utah Transit Authority spokesman Carl Arky told KUTV-TV that surveillance video indicates the driver went around the lowered crossing arms and that the car […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — Utah police say they have found the remains of a mother and her young son who were killed four years ago after the boyfriend who pleaded guilty in their deaths told authorities where he buried them. Orem Police Lt. Trent Colledge said Monday that the skeletal […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — State regulators are warning people not to swim, water ski or drink the water on any part of Utah Lake at least through the end of the month. The Daily Herald reports the Utah Department of Environmental Quality issued the warning advisory on Monday after counts of cyanobacteria […]
UPDATE: Fire crews report 100 percent containment of the Goat Canyon Fire on Tuesday. The fire burned 1,594 acres after starting Sunday. The Meadow Creek Fire is estimated burned 4,321 as of Wednesday morning with 45 percent containment. According to Utah Fire Info, cooler temperatures and rain on the fire […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah health officials say they have confirmed 35 cases of lung damage linked to vaping and are investigating 12 more potential cases. The state Department of Health announced the new number Monday, a jump from the 28 cases reported last week. The department says the […]
