LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 29-year-old Las Vegas man with a criminal record in Nevada and Utah has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a pair of violent, armed carjackings. Uriah Crain pleaded guilty earlier to carjacking resulting in serious bodily injury, discharging a firearm during a crime […]
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents in Yuma have arrested a Mexican man who was previously convicted of first-degree murder. Agents assigned to the Wellton Station’s Interstate 8 immigration checkpoint took 50-year-old Andres Cevilla-Julio into custody Saturday night. They say he entered the U.S. illegally near San Luis near […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a suspected arsonist who set several wildfires along a Utah interstate may also be responsible for fires in Wyoming. Investigator Jason Curry, of the Utah Forestry, Fire and State Lands, says six fires that started along Interstate 80 on Monday appear to be […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Idaho is reviewing its program for temporarily releasing prison inmates to help fight wildfires after an inmate was charged with raping a woman working at a remote Utah firefighting base camp. Idaho prison officials are working with the state’s lands department as they scrutinize which […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Dixie State University is offering its first graduate degree program this fall. The Spectrum newspaper reports the Master of Accountancy program had about 60 applicants. The university is also offering three new bachelor’s degrees in music performance, mechanical engineering and nursing. Dixie State has also hired new […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who sued a former Mormon missionary leader claiming that he raped her in the 1980s went to his church in Arizona on Sunday and told his congregation that church leaders are covering for a “sexual predator.” McKenna Denson was ushered away from the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon leaders are unveiling a new narrative book about the faith’s early history in the 1800s that follows a recent commitment to transparency by acknowledging the polygamous roots of the faith. Leaders with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said at a news […]
An inmate from Idaho who was released to help battle a wildfire in Utah is accused of raping a woman who was also helping with the fire. Ruben Hernandez was charged with first-degree felony rape on Friday after he allegedly sexually assaulted the woman. The women, who was not named, reportedly ran […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities believe arson caused a wildfire that burned 585 acres (237 hectares) near Echo Reservoir along Interstate 80 in north-central Utah. State fire officials said Monday that a fire investigator determined that arson was the fire’s cause and that the Summit County Sheriff’s Department was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who drowned in a reservoir that spans the Utah-Wyoming border has been identified as a retired Salt Lake City-area police officer. The Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake says the man who drowned Sunday while swimming at Flaming Gorge Reservoir was identified […]
