On Apr. 30, authorities with the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office along with Richfield City Police arrested two individuals in connection to a number of vehicle thefts throughout Sevier County. On May 5, authorities recovered a large number of items, including multiple firearms, the two had stolen. Cody Wright and Shyanna […]
Around 5:00 a.m. on May 8, authorities responded to a report of an individual passed out in a vehicle on the side of the road near Joseph. The individual, Collin Campbell, gave police false information when asked for his name and information. He also did not recall how he came […]
On May 4, officials with the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office and the Attorney Generals Office raided a home in Koosharem. The raid was in response to a warrant on Roger Jackman Jr., age 54, who was suspected of downloading and distributing child pornography. The Attorney Generals Office provided a mobile […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah police shot a man they say had a crowbar and was breaking windows near Salt Lake City. The West Valley City Police Department say they got a call around 1:30 a.m. Monday that a man had a metal object and was possibly trying to […]
SPRINGDALE, Utah (AP) — The small crowd cheered as local leaders smashed gold-tipped sledgehammers into the old wood door of a home on Zion Park Boulevard Thursday. A former motel built with wood from Zion National Park will be rebuilt as the Springdale History Center, a museum dedicated to the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The card millions of people have used to prove their identity to everyone from police officers to liquor store owners may soon be a thing of the past as a growing number of states develop digital driver’s licenses. With the advent of digital wallets and […]
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — The family of a teenager shot to death in 2018 by Cottonwood Heights police has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, its police department, and some officers after violent clashes occurred at a protest in August. KUTV reports in the lawsuit filed this week […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Attorneys for a Utah man who pleaded guilty to murder in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise say he had brain abnormalities that a defense expert deemed consistent with injuries caused by playing contact sports. Attorneys for Kenneth Manzanares say that, along […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 16-year-old Utah boy has been charged as an adult with stabbing a woman to death after she told him to stop using racial slurs. Court documents say Izaak Joseph Vijil was charged Thursday in the death of 34-year-old Melissa Wood in Murray on April […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The family of a Utah man who was shot and killed by a police officer are suing the police department for his death. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the family of Bryan Peña-Valencia is claiming that Omar Flores, an officer with the Unified Police Department […]
