A former Fayette Town employee has been arrested in connection with the misuse of public funds dating back to 2009. Tracy Kay Mellor was booked into the Sanpete County Jail on Thursday following an investigation initiated when Mellor quit her job as town clerk in January following a confrontation with […]
WENDOVER, Utah (AP) — Law enforcement authorities say a 10-year-old boy died while scuba diving with his father in northwest Utah. Tooele County sheriff’s office Lt. Ron Johnson says the boy died Wednesday. He had been at the 60-foot-deep Blue Lake with his father, who is a certified scuba diver. […]
WILFORD, Idaho (AP) — The body of a 14-year-old Utah boy has been recovered from the Teton River in eastern Idaho. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office says the body of Justin Grass of Sandy, Utah, was recovered Wednesday near the town of Wilford. Grass went missing June 24 while swimming […]
Five young ladies will compete to represent Gunnison City when the Miss Gunnison scholarship pageant is held on Saturday. The pageant will be held at 7 p.m. at Gunnison Valley High School. Participants include Carolyn Donaldson, Meg Childs, Ashtyn Childs, Ashley Boore and Aubree Jensen. Tickets for the evening will […]
Thanks to a USDA Rural Development Grant, Sterling Town will begin redevelopment of the upper and lower ponds in Forbush Cove to collect more water for its residents. The grant took a year to come to fruition, and the town wasn’t sure it would even come through. So, it was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah police seized about $2.2 million in cash last year from people under a law allowing authorities to take someone’s property even if they aren’t charged or convicted of a crime. A report released by the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice last week […]
Firefighters in Utah spent the Fourth of July trying to gain control over a wildfire near a popular fishing reservoir that burned about 30 structures and forced hundreds of cabins and homes to be evacuated. High wind gusts and extremely dry conditions have fueled the flames near Strawberry Reservoir, growing […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah LGBTQ groups marched for the first time Wednesday in a prominent July Fourth festival in the conservative city of Provo after years of organizers blocking the groups from participating. The groups were met by cheers and rainbow flags as they marched Wednesday morning in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a 50-year-old Florida man died in Utah’s Provo River after getting caught in the current under a railroad bridge. KUTV-TV reports the man was kayaking with family Tuesday afternoon on the river northeast of the city of Provo. Wasatch County Chief Deputy Jared Rigby says […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s plan to study the effects of marijuana on pain has been delayed because of slow approval from the federal government to ship the drug to Utah researchers. The Deseret News reports the study from the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative and University of Utah professors […]
