CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — A Cedar City woman charged in her 14-month-old daughter’s death has pleaded not guilty. The Spectrum reports 24-year-old Cherokee Dea pleaded not guilty to murder, child abuse and child endangerment charges during an arraignment on Tuesday. Dea’s boyfriend is also facing charges in the girl’s April 17 […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Firefighters in central Utah are making progress on a 100-acre wildfire that closed a mine in a national forest about 100 miles southeast of Provo. Authorities believe a campfire lit by recreationists sparked the blaze reported Friday afternoon about 15 miles northwest of Huntington. Officials for […]
JUAB COUNTY (UDOT)-Tuesday morning, per the official Twitter of UDOT, a wreck occurred on northbound Interstate 15 in Juab County. The incident occurred at 11:47 am MDT at milepost 197, roughly 9 miles north of Scipio near the Millard County border. Reportedly, a clearance time will occur at 12:29 pm […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah corrections officer was sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman after fleeing from the sentence for more than 10 years. The Salt Lake Tribune reports William Lawrence on Monday, 12 years after the assault, was sentenced to zero to five years in the Utah State […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Utah Muslim leader whose lawyers said he was wrongly placed on a government no-fly list and temporarily blocked from leaving Kenya with his family last year. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson wrote Monday that the lengthy […]
TOOELE, Utah (AP) — Investigators are calling a large fire that destroyed the clubhouse of a Utah shooting range arson. The Deseret News reports a fire on Thursday caused about $400,000 worth of damage to the clubhouse of the Big Shot Ranch about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) west of Salt Lake City. […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve recovered a body at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Page and it is believed to be a person reported missing from Buckeye. The name, age and gender of the missing person weren’t immediately available Monday. Coconino County Sheriff’s officials say the body […]
SEVIER COUNTY (UDOT)-Per the official Twitter account of UDOT, a crash occurred Tuesday morning in eastern Sevier County. UDOT reports the incident happened at 8:53 am MDT Tuesday 18 miles west of Loa on S.R. 24 at milepost 33. Authorities estimate a clearance time of 9:52 am MDT. If in […]
ESCALANTE, Utah (AP) — Southern Utah officials say a bomb squad has destroyed two mortars found in a remote area near the town of Escalante. Garfield County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Denise Dastrup said a resident found the mortars near a camping area and emailed the sheriff’s office Friday to let them […]
Two fire crews are battling a wildfire in Emery County near the Crandall Canyon Mine, Northwest of Huntington. Officials with the Forest Service believe the fire was started over a week ago by a warming fire used by people recreating in the area. It wasn’t reported until 2 p.m. Friday. […]
