PROVO, Utah (AP) — Statistics show violent and property crimes are down in Utah, but the number of sexual assaults increased again last year. Figures from the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification released Wednesday show crime dropped overall by more than 5 percent from the prior year, the Daily Herald reported . […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says he wants lawmakers to take action on medical marijuana regardless of whether a November ballot initiative to legalize it passes. The Deseret News reports Herbert said Thursday at this monthly news conference on KUED that he’ll use his “bully pulpit” to push […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon man who has publicly and vociferously led a campaign criticizing the church’s practice of allowing closed door, one-on-one interviews between youth and lay leaders where sexual questions sometimes arise may soon be kicked out of the faith. Sam Young of Houston said Thursday […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous sect that has been losing control of a community on the Utah-Arizona border that it has long controlled is in line to hold on to seats on a town council after three member incumbents survived a primary election challenge from outsiders. Vance Barlow, […]
A truck is completely destroyed after a fire in the Sevier County Mountains Thursday. According to the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, the truck was on the gooseberry road hauling a horse trailer. When officials arrived, the truck was fully engulfed and the trailer had been separated. Salina and Aurora Fire […]
Mt. Pleasant will be looking for a new mayor again for the second time in two years. Mayor Sandra Bigler submitted a letter of resignation to the City Council, citing personal reasons. A letter released by Bigler on Friday goes into more detail though about frustrations in working with the […]
The state Division of Wildlife Resources is looking for whoever shot a mule deer and left it to waste near Minersville. Officials said Wednesday the deer was killed more than a month ago but it wasn’t reported to them until about three weeks later. The DWR says none of the […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A man from Russia has drowned in a reservoir along the Utah-Arizona border, authorities said Wednesday. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kurganov, 20, of St. Petersburg was with a group of 29 foreign nationals who met up at Lake Powell and rented three pontoon boats. Some of them jumped […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray says homegrown violent extremists now are the government’s primary concern in combating terrorism. Wray was in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, speaking to hundreds of law enforcement officers at Utah’s National Security and Anti-Terrorism Conference. He says homegrown violent extremists are […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say two executives of a Salt Lake City biodiesel company linked to a polygamous group could flee to Turkey if they are released ahead of trial on charges in a $500 million tax credit scheme. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah also says in […]
