HARRISVILLE, Utah (AP) — A 29-year-old female pedestrian has been hit and killed by a vehicle while crossing U.S. Highway 89 in Weber County. Harrisville Police Chief Maxwell Jackson identified the victim as Brittany Zoller. Her hometown wasn’t immediately available. Jackson told the Deseret News she was crossing the highway Wednesday night […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A 20-year-old northern Utah man has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for forcible sexual abuse of a teenage girl. The Herald-Journal reports Christopher VanDam of Lewiston was sentenced Tuesday in Cache County District Court in Logan. He was arrested in February after an investigation […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first of two Pacific storm systems is moving across Utah with the stronger storm expected to descend from the northern mountains with the heaviest snow early Friday and intensifying as it spreads south Saturday. A winter weather advisory remains in effect until 6 p.m. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah dance group is promising to revise its holiday show after a TV appearance that many slammed as racist toward Asians. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Odyssey Dance Theatre apologized Wednesday to “the entire Asian community and anyone else whom we may have offended.” Some […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Doing intensive mental health and substance abuse screenings for people who enter Utah county jails was identified as a top priority for state officials several years ago. But the Standard-Examiner reports the money has dried up and now lawmakers are searching for ways to find more funds. […]
A former Fayette Town clerk who pleaded guilty to misuse of public money was sentenced in Sixth District Court in Manti on Wednesday. Tracy Kay Mellor pleaded guilty in October to three 3rd degree felonies after an investigation revealed she had been writing Town checks to a personal business account […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah House Democrats re-elected Minority Leader Brian King despite a recent allegation that he pushed a Republican state senator. King, D-Salt Lake City, was re-elected Tuesday even after state Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, filed a criminal complaint against King, claiming King pushed him […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah ballot measure that creates an independent redistricting commission has narrowly passed. Final results released Tuesday night showed the proposition won by less than 1 percentage point after being virtually deadlocked through two weeks of vote counting. The proposition creates a seven-person commission that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Actor James Cromwell was among animal rights protesters who held stiff carcasses of dead piglets as they demonstrated at the Utah Capitol, calling on state officials to prevent cruelty at farms and investigate health risks associated with large-scale agriculture. The 100 people participating in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Mia Love was tabbed as a rising star in the GOP when she became the first black Republican woman in Congress with her 2014 victory. But on Tuesday she became the latest Republican incumbent to fall in the midterm election’s Democratic wave that has […]
