SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s prison population has grown faster than most states in the past few years, authorities said. The Utah Sentencing Commission saw a dramatic surge in prison population as new crimes and drug violations led to more convictions, KSL-TV reported . Utah’s prison population increased by 4.3% from […]
On Friday night, 14 young ladies from Sanpete County participated in the annual Miss Sanpete County and Miss Sanpete Outstanding Teen competition at the Eccles Center on the Snow College campus in Ephraim. The event was hosted by Miss Utah Dexonna Talbot of Spanish Fork. Miss Sanpete County for 2019 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three companies are continuing to protest Utah’s decision to award a smaller number of medical marijuana grower licenses. The state’s Division of Purchasing said Thursday that companies Pure UT, Total Health Sciences and JLPR are appealing the agency’s decision to reject their complaints to the […]
MOAB, Utah (AP) — Wildlife officials say they are still looking for the bear that attacked a 13-year-old boy at a campground in eastern Utah. The state’s Division of Wildlife Resources said the teenager was sleeping at a campground along the Colorado River Friday morning when a bear approached him […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s lieutenant governor says voter fraud is rare in the state and usually the result of a misunderstanding of election laws. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday that Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says fraud cases typically involve parents submitting ballots for children who are away […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The family of a teenage Logan girl who survived a gunshot wound to the head will be handing out gun locks at the Cache County Fair. The Herald Journal reports that Deserae Turner’s mother April says her daughter’s injuries had a profound impact on her life, and she’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Crews in Utah were clearing landslides and mud from several canyon highways and roads canyons on Friday following heavy rainfall. Homes were briefly evacuated in one canyon and motorists were evacuated from another, authorities said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. Parts of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a Utah corrections officer suffered fractures to his face after he was attacked by inmates. The Deseret News reports the officer was attacked Wednesday in a cell block of the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison. Sanpete County Attorney Kevin Daniels says one inmate hit […]
Fourteen young ladies will compete this evening for the opportunity to represent Sanpete County as Miss Sanpete County and Sanpete’s Outstanding Teen. Contestants competing for the title of Miss Sanpete include Nikki Evans, Aubree Jensen, Ally Brotherson, Cari Jo Carmody, Ashtyn Childs, Dallas Taylor, Jillane Olsen, Keyera Braithwaite, Bailey Simons, […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A former attorney for a Utah death-row inmate has testified that lawyers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had asked him to call fewer church members to testify in his client’s 2015 trial. The Standard-Examiner reports attorney Michael Bouwhuis told an Ogden court Tuesday that […]
