LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Utah man and a Florida man have been convicted of running a Nevada ring aimed at creating and selling synthetic marijuana known as “spice.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada announced Wednesday that Charles Burton Ritchie of Park City, Utah, and Benjamin Galecki of Pensacola, […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A wildlife rescue in northern Utah is commending a man who found a creative way to rescue an abandoned baby bird while out drinking with friends. Staff at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah say they received a call last weekend from a man who […]
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — Forest rangers and residents are worried that an increase of visitors to Salt Lake County’s backcountry is resulting in more human feces in watershed streams amid E. coli fears. Central Wasatch Commission officials are questioning if visitation to the Wasatch canyons has reached a tipping […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Advocates have unveiled a marker to memorialize patients who died in Utah’s first asylum. KSL-TV reports the stone plaque was made public at a ceremony on Tuesday at the Salt Lake City Cemetery’s B plat and bears the name of 55 people who died at the facility. […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Utah State’s Museum of Anthropology is hosting an exhibit by a key cartoonist and women’s rights activist of the U.S. suffrage movement. “Women Speaking to Women: The Political Art of Nina Allender” highlights the works of a cartoonist who worked for The Suffragist, a weekly news […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Researchers at Brigham Young University are helping with a NASA-sponsored project measuring the electrical charge and size of dust particles on Mars. The BYU group is nearing completion of the three-year project that hopes to understand the climate of the Red Planet and the impact the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge is ordering a Utah contractor with ties to a polygamous group on the Utah-Arizona border to pay more than $1 million in back wages to children who prosecutors say were forced to pick pecans from 2008-2013. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell ruled Tuesday […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — An employee of a youth psychiatric center in Utah has been accused of pulling a teenage girl’s hair and punching her. The Spectrum newspaper reported Tuesday that 38-year-old Gino Sanchez pleaded not guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge of child abuse involving physical injury. Court documents […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving forward with plans for a new detention facility for people in custody in Utah that could be built in Wyoming. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday that ICE plans to begin accepting formal proposals on July 17 and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The father of one of two 13-year-old Utah boys who fatally overdosed on a new synthetic opioid drug is suing a school district and the police department, saying officials knew the teen’s friends had been experimenting with the drug but didn’t communicate the danger to […]
