SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man in northern Utah who told police he was trying to shoot people he believed were living in his trees has been charged with more than 30 felonies. The Deseret News reports 64-year-old Timmy Andrew Gurule was charged Monday with drug distribution, discharge of […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah death-row inmate is heading back to court to determine if he had ineffective legal counsel and if The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meddled in his 2015 trial. The Standard-Examiner reports 61-year-old Douglas Lovell will be back in an Ogden courtroom starting Monday over […]
MONTICELLO, Utah (AP) — Authorities say two Arizona residents and a North Dakota woman are dead after a head-on collision in Utah involving an SUV and a pickup truck. Utah Highway Patrol officials say the crash occurred Saturday afternoon near Monticello in San Juan County. They say the truck apparently […]
STRAWBERRY RESERVOIR, Utah (AP) — A Wyoming man has died after his ATV collided with a pickup truck on a Utah highway. The Utah Highway Patrol says the fatal accident occurred Sunday morning in northern Utah near Strawberry Reservoir. UHP officials say the ATV was in the eastbound lane just […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A festival celebrating LGBTQ pride in Ogden is growing fast. The Standard Examiner reports that Ogden Pride Festival has grown from about 500 attendees in the first year to an estimated 7,000 for the 2019 festival, which ended on Saturday. The event featured more than 100 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert is ordering all U.S. and Utah flags at state facilities be lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of the weekend’s two mass shootings. Herbert’s office announced Monday morning that the flag lowering in memory of the victims of shootings in El […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service wants to reduce designated habitat in Wyoming and Nevada for a ground-dwelling bird. The agency said Friday its plan would target 300 square miles (800 square kilometers) now set aside for sage grouse in Wyoming and Nevada, with nearly all of the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Board of Education will form a new task force to examine charter school finances. The board voted Thursday to create the panel to look into charter school spending and how the schools can restructure their finances. The decision comes amid ongoing financial strife […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden says he’ll make a campaign stop in Utah at the end of September. The Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign said Friday in a news release that Biden will be in the ski resort town of Park City, Utah, on Sept. 28. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmental groups are challenging the U.S. government’s decision to reopen a large swath of southern Utah’s badlands to off-road vehicles. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and two other conservation organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing ATV traffic will harm the endangered plants. The lands had […]
