SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah state attorneys will ask a judge on Thursday to let them marshal evidence to defend a new abortion ban, a step that could prepare the case for a future appeals court amid optimism from anti-abortion advocates nationwide about new conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices. […]
MIDVALE, Utah (AP) — A Salt Lake City suburb has changed its rules for what groups can participate in a city parade after a Confederate group marched last year. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the Midvale City Council unanimously approved a policy Tuesday that allows groups to walk in its Harvest Days […]
The Millard County Sheriff’s Office is looking for assistance in solving a crime in Delta. According to a press release from the MCSO Facebook page deputies responded to a report of gunshots on 100 North and near the 300 West block at 1:30 AM Thursday. Multiple rounds of pistol ammunition […]
KEARNS, Utah (AP) — Two high students in a Salt Lake City suburb have been suspended from the football team for posting a video of somebody burning an LGBTQ pride flag. The Deseret News reports that Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley says discipline was taken against the Kearns High School students […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 3-year-old Spanish Fork boy who fell from a second-story window has been released from a hospital. The family of Jacob Stallings said in a statement Tuesday he has made a “miraculous recovery” since falling 13 feet (4 meters) to a cement driveway on June […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The deputy director of the Utah Department of Environment Quality will head the agency temporarily. Scott Baird will serve as interim director until a permanent replacement can be found. He succeeds Alan Matheson, who is stepping down July 1. Gov. Gary Hebert announced Baird’s appointment […]
A man accused of raping a teen girl is now facing new allegations of child sex abuse. According to Sanpete County prosecutors, 52-year-old David Pemberton groped a 14-year-old boy working at his cabin in Hideaway Valley back in the summer of 2017. Records show investigators later interviewed a second teen […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new anti-abortion group is launching a push to end all elective abortions in Utah. Abortion-Free Utah rallied Wednesday at the state capitol to start the effort to ban the procedure and push Planned Parenthood out of the state. Planned Parenthood CEO Karrie Galloway says […]
WELLS, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on a train derailment that closed U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada for more than an hour (all times local): 12:35 p.m. A 60-mile (96-kilometer) stretch of U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada has reopened after a train derailment caused a potential hazmat scare. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s top education officials are going back to the standardized school testing company they moved on from a year ago after they abruptly canceled a contract with a replacement company whose system led to a flurry of technological glitches. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that state assistant […]
