Crews battling a lightning caused wildfire in Juab County are gaining some ground in their efforts. The Paint Mine Fire started Saturday three miles Northwest of Nephi. 2,665 acres have burned as of Tuesday morning with 35 percent containment. According to the U.S. Forest Service, aerial resources have helped create a […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Logan teenager who fatally shoved a homeless man who he wrongly suspected of groping his sister will serve 30 days in juvenile detention. The Herald Journal reports authorities have said the 17-year-old pushed Fife on April 23, after his sister said the man had touched her inappropriately […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who pleaded guilty to the strangulation death of his wife has been sentenced to serve up to 45 years in prison. KUTV reported Monday that 37-year-old Curtis Nichols was sentenced Monday for killing Robin Nichols in the couple’s home in August 2017. Nichols […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man in northern Utah who told police he was trying to shoot people he believed were living in his trees has been charged with more than 30 felonies. The Deseret News reports 64-year-old Timmy Andrew Gurule was charged Monday with drug distribution, discharge of […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah death-row inmate is heading back to court to determine if he had ineffective legal counsel and if The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meddled in his 2015 trial. The Standard-Examiner reports 61-year-old Douglas Lovell will be back in an Ogden courtroom starting Monday over […]
MONTICELLO, Utah (AP) — Authorities say two Arizona residents and a North Dakota woman are dead after a head-on collision in Utah involving an SUV and a pickup truck. Utah Highway Patrol officials say the crash occurred Saturday afternoon near Monticello in San Juan County. They say the truck apparently […]
STRAWBERRY RESERVOIR, Utah (AP) — A Wyoming man has died after his ATV collided with a pickup truck on a Utah highway. The Utah Highway Patrol says the fatal accident occurred Sunday morning in northern Utah near Strawberry Reservoir. UHP officials say the ATV was in the eastbound lane just […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A festival celebrating LGBTQ pride in Ogden is growing fast. The Standard Examiner reports that Ogden Pride Festival has grown from about 500 attendees in the first year to an estimated 7,000 for the 2019 festival, which ended on Saturday. The event featured more than 100 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert is ordering all U.S. and Utah flags at state facilities be lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of the weekend’s two mass shootings. Herbert’s office announced Monday morning that the flag lowering in memory of the victims of shootings in El […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service wants to reduce designated habitat in Wyoming and Nevada for a ground-dwelling bird. The agency said Friday its plan would target 300 square miles (800 square kilometers) now set aside for sage grouse in Wyoming and Nevada, with nearly all of the […]
