SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Salt Lake City health care company says it eliminated 396 jobs and created 107 new positions as part of a structural overhaul it launched late last year. The Deseret News reports Intermountain Healthcare announced Monday that 59 positions were already vacant, and a total of 67 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah police have arrested a man suspected of drunkenly firing gunshots that struck a public bus and a semitrailer. Authorities say 57-year-old Michael Hinckley was arrested Monday after he interrupted investigators searching a nearby peach orchard in the city of Fruit Orchard north of Salt […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge has set a trial date for a Utah man accused of encouraging a high school friend to hang herself and filming the act. Court records show 19-year-old Tyerell Przybycien (pro-BISH-ian) is set to go on trial for murder starting Dec. 5. Prosecutors say […]
A farmer is without an expensive tractor and a family is without a home after two separate fires in Sevier County Monday evening. The first one started around 5 p.m. near the intersection of Main and SR 118 in Venice. A man was using a grinder attached to a tractor […]
FRUIT HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — The Latest on gunfire hitting a public bus in Utah (all times local): 10:25 a.m. Police say they believe a public bus in Utah traveling on a highway was accidently hit by a bullet when someone fired shots from a nearby peach orchard, but authorities […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Logan Police say a man set his couch on fire and burned his hands after he put his marijuana ashes in a paper bag. The Herald Journal reports the man was hurt when he tried to put out the fire with his hands after smoking the pot on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police in Salt Lake City are investigating the fatal stabbing of a teenage boy. Authorities say the incident occurred just before 1:30 a.m. Monday near Kensington Avenue and State Street. Police say two groups were in an argument that resulted in the 17-year-old victim getting […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The 370 structures burned in Utah wildfires so far this year is more than the previous five years combined and the most in the last 15 years. Structures lost to Utah wildfires in the last five years combined would not reach a third of the […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State troopers in California and Nevada are joining forces to step up enforcement next week along more than 600 miles (965 kilometers) of U.S. Interstate 80 from San Francisco to the Nevada-Utah line. The Interstate 80 Initiative scheduled to run from Aug. 27 through Sept. 3 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that an initiative measure to keep but ease the state’s dual-path system for nominating candidates for political office won’t appear on the November general election ballot. The Supreme Court ruled Friday on the Count My Vote Initiative, which would […]
