CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy who became separated from his Boy Scout group during a hiking trip in the Wyoming wilderness survived partly on bugs and tree bark for the nearly 37 hours he was alone. Searchers found Garrett Hunter of Draper, Utah, in good health about 10:15 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon man has launched a hunger strike to bring attention to a campaign calling on church leaders to bring an end to closed door, one-on-one interviews between youth and lay leaders where sexual questions sometimes arise. Sam Young of Houston says he started his […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a teenager who ran away from a youth-treatment program in Utah has been found safe. Officials with Redcliff Ascent said Saturday that 13-year-old Roberto Madrigal was found on the side of a road in Beaver County, hungry but otherwise healthy. The California native […]
Cougars are doing well in Utah. So well, in fact, that a few more hunters might be allowed to hunt them this fall. This past season, hunters were given the opportunity to take 581 cougars in the state. For the upcoming season, biologists with the Division of Wildlife Resources are […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Medical bills for a Utah jail inmate are nearing $1 million, sparking the sheriff’s resignation and highlighting widespread struggles to pay for inmate health care. Jails are required to provide inmates with necessary medical care, and the Salt Lake Tribune reports the cost of 49-year-old […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a man and a teenager are in custody in connection with a drive-by shooting in Taylorsville that killed a woman. Unified police say they’ve arrested 20-year-old Euziel De La Torre of West Jordan for his alleged involvement in the July 10 shooting of […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A historic Mormon church building in southern Utah has re-opened its doors after a two-year project to restore the tabernacle built by early settlers even as the new town struggled to survive through floods and heat. The Spectrum newspaper reports the Tabernacle in St. George, a LDS […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A southern Utah man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 79-year-old St. George woman in her home three months ago. St. George police say 31-year-old Spencer Glen Monnett of Hurricane is being held on suspicion of first-degree felony counts of rape, a second-degree […]
PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — A search is underway in the mountains of western Wyoming for a 13-year-old boy from Utah who became separated from his Boy Scout group during a backcountry hiking trip. Sublette County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Travis Bingham says the search for Garrett Hunter, of Draper, intensified Sunday […]
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies have rescued a party of Boy Scouts who became stranded along a southwestern Wyoming river. The nine scouts and three adults from a Saratoga Springs, Utah scout troop began a rafting trip last week in the Jamestown area. They had traveled about 15 […]
