WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney is the latest prominent Republican to cast doubt on his support for President Donald Trump’s reelection. The Utah senator and 2012 GOP presidential nominee said Monday that he would “stay quiet” about whether he’ll back another candidate. His open acknowledgment of hesitance in supporting Trump […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say an infant was in critical condition after police rescued the boy from a submerged car in a Utah pond. Police responded around 11:15 p.m. Sunday to Golf in the Round in South Salt Lake and found a car upside down in a retention […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney marched Sunday in the nation’s capital in a protest against police mistreatment of minorities, making him the first Republican senator known to do so. Romney, who represents Utah, posted a tweet showing him wearing a mask as he walked with Black Lives Matter […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah logged its largest single-day increase in the number of COVID-19 cases Friday, with many of those coming in connection with an outbreak at a meatpacking plant in northern Utah. Health officials are investigating the “ongoing outbreak” at the unnamed facility and expect to see […]
Body camera footage shows Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 20 shots at a man as he ran away. Twenty-two-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was shot and killed May 23 after police who were responding to a call of a gun threat chased him when he ran from a motel. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dozens of doctors, nurses and other health care workers and students knelt in support of anti-police brutality protests in Salt Lake City on Friday. About 100 people in Utah joined healthcare professionals around the country using the label White Coats for Black Lives to honor […]
High winds caused damage and multiple power outages in Sanpete County Friday afternoon. Gusts at the Mid-Utah radio station in Manti topped out at 64 miles per hour and sustained winds blew 45 to 55 miles per hour as the massive weather front passed over. Power from Salina to Moroni […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah gubernatorial candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. is self-quarantining after a campaign staffer tested positive for COVID-19. The campaign said Friday that the former U.S.-Russia ambassador has postponed his in-person public events until he can be tested. His running mate Provo Mayor Michelle Kaufusi has not […]
KAYSVILLE, Utah (Deseret News) — The Kaysville City Council has unanimously censured Mayor Katie Witt after she was heavily criticized for her support of a concert protesting coronavirus-related restrictions. The Deseret News reported that the council made the decision Thursday following her support of the concert and personal attacks against […]
A Republican lawmaker in Utah says he’ll support police reform legislation championed by the NAACP. State NAACP chapter president Jeanetta Williams said Friday that Utah was among the first states to publicly respond to a call from the group’s national headquarters for branches to pursue reform legislation. Their priorities include […]
