SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A law making sex outside of marriage a misdemeanor crime in Utah for more than four decades could be headed toward repeal. The state Legislature voted Wednesday to repeal the measure, which now heads to Republican Gov. Gary Herbert. His office did not immediately respond […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — The former girlfriend of a Utah man accused of killing a teenage couple testified that she witnessed their deaths and the hiding of their bodies in a mine shaft. Morgan Henderson testified in a Provo courtroom Wednesday during the preliminary hearing for Jerrod Baum, who is […]
News Update – Because of significant public and business outcry over the details of HB 441, the Utah State Legislature Thursday tabled the bill for now and will revisit it during a special session later this year. The Governor and other legislative leaders have expressed an interest in meeting with […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The fight to ban gay conversion therapy for minors in conservative Utah is over for the year after the proposal was gutted by lawmakers, supporters said Wednesday. A prominent activist blasted Republican Gov. Gary Herbert’s support for the changes that would have allowed therapists to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposal allowing people from polygamous communities to receive money from a crime-victims fund is passing another key step at the Legislature. The measure approved by a Senate panel on Wednesday allows victims of bigamy and related crimes to apply for assistance grants the Utah […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A push to raise alcohol level for Utah beer in line with most of the U.S. is hitting a stumbling block. A panel of lawmakers gutted the bill on Wednesday, replacing it with a plan to study the issue instead. Republican sponsor Sen. Jerry Stevenson […]
NORTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah veterans’ facility is set to be renamed after Maj. Brent Taylor, the former North Ogden mayor who was killed while serving in Afghanistan. The North Ogden outstation of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would be named the Major Brent Taylor Vet Center […]
The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office released a statement Wednesday that they are looking for information on the whereabouts of 77-year-old James Fields of Annabella. Fields was last seen Monday, March 4 and was supposed to go to a medical appointment, but never arrived. He was driving a 2012 Dodge truck […]
MILLCREEK, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a woman is dead after being run over by a police car driven by an officer responding to a report of suspicious activity in a strip mall parking lot in a Salt Lake City suburb. Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake officials say […]
Winter Weather Advisory issued March 05 at 2:43PM MST until March 07 at 10:00AM MST by NWS Saltlake …WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM MST THURSDAY… * WHAT…Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 18 inches expected by midday Thursday, mainly above […]
