KAMAS, Utah (AP) — Authorities say two drivers were transported to a hospital after a dump truck crashed into a laundromat in Kamas. KUTV reports the driver of a Jeep Liberty failed to stop at an intersection around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. At the same time, a dump truck was traveling and rammed […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s most powerful LGBTQ support organization is planning to propose legislation that would ban gay conversion therapy for minors. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Equality Utah has drafted legislation seeking for Utah to join more than a dozen states in outlawing efforts to change a minor’s sexual […]
VERNAL, Utah (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies arrested two teenage boys they say stole a small airplane at a private airstrip in rural eastern Utah and flew about 15 miles (24 kilometers) before landing successfully at Vernal Regional Airport. The Desert News reported the 14- and 15-year-old boys stole the single-engine Cessna Thursday […]
HARRISVILLE, Utah (AP) — A 29-year-old female pedestrian has been hit and killed by a vehicle while crossing U.S. Highway 89 in Weber County. Harrisville Police Chief Maxwell Jackson identified the victim as Brittany Zoller. Her hometown wasn’t immediately available. Jackson told the Deseret News she was crossing the highway Wednesday night […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A 20-year-old northern Utah man has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for forcible sexual abuse of a teenage girl. The Herald-Journal reports Christopher VanDam of Lewiston was sentenced Tuesday in Cache County District Court in Logan. He was arrested in February after an investigation […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first of two Pacific storm systems is moving across Utah with the stronger storm expected to descend from the northern mountains with the heaviest snow early Friday and intensifying as it spreads south Saturday. A winter weather advisory remains in effect until 6 p.m. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah dance group is promising to revise its holiday show after a TV appearance that many slammed as racist toward Asians. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Odyssey Dance Theatre apologized Wednesday to “the entire Asian community and anyone else whom we may have offended.” Some […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Doing intensive mental health and substance abuse screenings for people who enter Utah county jails was identified as a top priority for state officials several years ago. But the Standard-Examiner reports the money has dried up and now lawmakers are searching for ways to find more funds. […]
A former Fayette Town clerk who pleaded guilty to misuse of public money was sentenced in Sixth District Court in Manti on Wednesday. Tracy Kay Mellor pleaded guilty in October to three 3rd degree felonies after an investigation revealed she had been writing Town checks to a personal business account […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah House Democrats re-elected Minority Leader Brian King despite a recent allegation that he pushed a Republican state senator. King, D-Salt Lake City, was re-elected Tuesday even after state Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, filed a criminal complaint against King, claiming King pushed him […]
