SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah organization dedicated to closing unsolved crime cases plans to launch what it says is the first DNA testing lab operated by a nonprofit. The Salt Lake Tribune reports The Utah Cold Case Coalition announced Thursday it has leased space in Salt Lake City […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A teenager who authorities accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb at a southern Utah high school after watching Islamic State propaganda been sentenced to four years of probation. The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that that the 17-year-old boy was […]
A Mt. Pleasant couple has pleaded guilty to selling drugs from their home while their children were present. Alejandro Manzo and his wife, Amanda Carrasco, pleaded guilty to selling methamphetamine and heroin from the travel trailer they lived in with their children on Gravel Pit Road in Mt. Pleasant. The […]
The man accused of Wesley Nay’s death has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of 1st degree murder. Nay’s body was found by hunters in a shallow grave in Utah County in 2016. Raul Vidrio, 21, of Mt. Pleasant, was arrested after Utah County Sheriff’s deputies stopped him on a […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Animal welfare groups have reached a milestone agreement with ranching interests that they say would save wild mustangs from slaughter but the compromise has opened a nasty split among horse protection advocates. The Humane Society of the United States and the American Society for the Prevention […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — A Utah city is proposing to reduce a home grass requirement to help residents deal with higher water bills. The Daily Herald reports that Orem will consider lowering the mandated amount of grass in front yards from 70% to 50%. The planning division manager in the […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Reservoirs around the Colorado River basin are in good shape after an exceptionally wet winter. The largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are expected to be more than half full this year. They haven’t been near capacity since 1999 when drought took hold of the […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — State officials say motorcycle deaths in Utah rose by 24% last year — from 38 to 47 — for the highest increase in state history. The Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Highway Patrol organized an event Tuesday in West Valley City featuring […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A newly unveiled advisory committee that will help make management decisions for a downsized national monument in southern Utah has become the latest flashpoint in a long-running debate over lands considered sacred to Native Americans as monument supporters cry foul about being left off the […]
JENSEN, Utah (AP) — A national monument known for dinosaur fossils has also been named one of the world’s best places to view the stars. Officials at Dinosaur National Monument say the landmark has been designated an International Dark Sky Park for its “exceptional quality of natural darkness.” The monument […]
