(Provo, UT) — A BYU professor who also teaches Sunday School is under arrest for alleged child sex crimes. The Box Elder County Attorney’s Office says the suspect interacted with an undercover agent who posed as a 17-year-old. Stephen Henry McKean is now facing one charge of suspicion of distributing […]
(Millard County, UT) — Mormon crickets are showing up early in Utah. Scientists with the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food have already spotted young crickets weeks ahead of schedule in some parts of the state, including Box Elder and Millard counties. They’re asking farmers to keep an eye out […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Threats against three school districts in the state are under investigation. The first was in Garland when someone discovered a drawing of a gun with the date for Monday on a bathroom wall. A bomb threat was also found on Snapchat against Box Elder County […]
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) — A northwestern Utah county must pay $135,200 in attorney fees for the alleged false arrests of two Black men after a federal judge reduced the original amount owed by Box Elder County by about $90,000. The Standard-Examiner reported that Judge Dale Kimball’s Sept. 10 ruling […]
A Utah county has agreed to pay more than $10,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by two Idaho State University football players who say they were falsely arrested during a bank robbery investigation. The Standard-Examiner reported Nehemiah McFarlin and Atoatasi Fox will receive $5,100 each in the settlement with Box […]
A woman has died after struggling in a hot pool in Utah. Box Elder County sheriff’s officials say a group of teenagers called for medical help for the 51-year-old woman at Crystal Hot Springs outside Honeyville. Authorities say the woman died at a hospital later Saturday. Chief Deputy Dale Ward […]
TREMONTON, Utah (AP) — Authorities report a minor earthquake shook parts of Box Elder County in northern Utah on Tuesday. County spokesman Mitch Zundel said there were many reports of people feeling the quake of magnitude 3.9 at 10:15 a.m. MDT but that there was no immediate report of damage […]
CORINNE, Utah (AP) — Police say a teenager found dead in a northern Utah park was left there after he collapsed while drinking. The Standard-Examiner reports police say 16-year-old Marcus Elkins of Corinne had been drinking with other juveniles in the hours before his death He was found Thursday morning. […]
CORINNE, Utah (AP) — Police are calling the death of a teenager found in a northern Utah park suspicious. The Standard-Examiner reports the body of 16-year-old Marcus Elkins of Corinne was found in a park in his hometown Thursday morning. The Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office says investigators suspect Elkins did not […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit filed by a man who spent 17 days in jail in Box Elder County without being brought before a judge. The Standard-Examiner reports that the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday said the state District Court incorrectly applied a standard […]
