SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A teenage baby sitter is under arrest in the death of a Utah toddler. West Valley City police said Wednesday the 17-year-old male was watching the boy when emergency crews were called to the house on a report of an unconscious child. Jaycieion Sanchez died […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — No Utah locations are on the short list of cities in the running for a new Amazon headquarters. The online retailer released a list of 20 finalists for its second headquarters on Thursday. Most were on the East Coast and Midwest; Los Angeles was the […]
(Taylorsville, UT) — Fewer people were killed on Utah’s roadways in 2017 than the year before. According to the Utah Department of Transportation, 273 people were killed in accidents last year. That’s seven fewer than the year before. UDOT officials say the number of people who died in crashes involving […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — No Utah locations are on the short list of cities in the running for a new Amazon headquarters. The online retailer released a list of 20 finalists for its second headquarters on Thursday. Most were on the East Coast and Midwest; Los Angeles was the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man from an upstart group with beliefs in polygamy and doomsday has been charged with sodomy on a child and other counts. Prosecutors filed the charges Wednesday against 34-year-old Samuel Shaffer, one of two men accused of sexually abusing girls they considered wives. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The deadline to weigh in on a new federal plan that would loosen contentious endangered-species protections for Utah prairie dogs is looming. The public-comment period closes Thursday on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan that would allow prairie dogs to be killed or removed […]
Because of the complexity of his case, John Coltharp’s attorney has asked for another postponement of his preliminary hearing. Stating it would be a disservice to both the defense and the prosecution, Coltharp’s attorney, Paul Frischknecht, asked Judge Wallace Lee to once again move the preliminary hearing out about four […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Organizers of the Sundance Film Festival are rolling out guidelines aimed at preventing and reporting sexual misconduct. Organizers say they revised the festival’s code of conduct and partnered with Park City police and the Utah Attorney General’s Office for guidance. The state office is providing […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert is creating a task force that includes a high-ranking Mormon leader, the Utah Jazz owner and the leader of an LGBT rights group to address a troubling increase in teen suicides in Utah. Herbert unveiled the coalition Wednesday and called on the […]
ALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A malnourished dog believed to have survived for weeks in a barren Utah desert is on the mend after being found by a man riding off-road west of Salt Lake City. Matt Bentley said Tuesday the dog had lost all her hair to a skin […]
