A new Miss Ephraim will be chosen on Saturday night as seven young ladies compete to represent the city. “Dream, wish, believe” is the theme of this year’s scholarship pageant being held at the Eccles Center on the Snow College Ephraim campus at 7 p.m. Contestants include Alyssa Ogden, daughter […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop wants to turn northern Utah’s Golden Spike National Historic Site into a national park. Bishop told The Standard-Examiner in Ogden that he’s introducing legislation Thursday that would elevate the status of the site at Promontory Summit where the first transcontinental railroad in country […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who police describe as a suspect in the killing of a teenage girl in Salt Lake City was arrested Wednesday in Colorado following a two-day multi-state manhunt. Shaun French, 24, had previously been in a sexual relationship with 15-year-old Baleigh Bagshaw and […]
Water managers say there’s a better-than-even possibility that Mexico and the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada will get less water from the Colorado River in 2020 because of a drought. U.S. officials said Wednesday there’s a 52 percent chance the river’s biggest reservoir, Lake Mead, will fall low enough […]
The woman whose traffic stop in Sanpete County eventually led to the discovery of the bodies of two missing teens has pleaded guilty to multiple charges in connection with that traffic stop. Morgan Reannion Henderson appeared in Sixth District Court on Wednesday and entered her guilty pleas to possession of […]
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a man is dead after his pickup truck rolled off the road in Spanish Fork Canyon. The Daily Herald reports Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Todd Royce says the man was driving alone Tuesday afternoon on State Route 6 when his truck rolled down an embankment […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — A 30-year-old southern Utah man has pleaded not guilty to murder and child abuse charges stemming from the death of his girlfriend’s toddler a year ago. The St. George Spectrum reports Brendan Dalton entered the pleas in district court Tuesday to one count of murder, three counts […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three Utah men have been found not guilty of raping a 9-year-old girl while her mother was smoking methamphetamine in a nearby garage. The jury reached the verdict Wednesday in the case where the girl’s harrowing testimony about what she said happened after a rural […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America at the end of next year and place its remaining 425,000 boys into a gospel-focused youth program it is developing. The move ends a nearly century-old relationship that was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hundreds of new Utah laws are going into effect governing alcohol signs, medical marijuana and first-in-the-nation protections for hands-off parenting. Tuesday is the trigger for most of the more than 500 laws passed by the Utah Legislature this year, 60 days after the end of […]
