SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A lawsuit filed in the death of a black man shot after he ran from Salt Lake City police has been moved to federal court. The Deseret News reports the change was made Monday in the case filed in the 2017 death of 50-year-old Patrick […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has dismissed appeals from six companies that were denied licenses to grow medical marijuana for the state and argued the state chose unqualified companies. Utah’s Division of Purchasing announced its decision to dismiss all of the appeals Wednesday. Director Chris Hughes says rejected applicants […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Newly obtained documents reveal a small county in southeastern Utah paid a consulting firm nearly $500,000 to lobby against the designation of the Bears Ears National Monument and for the downsizing of it after it was created. The Salt Lake Tribune reports public records show […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Six companies are challenging Utah’s decision to award a smaller number of medical marijuana grower licenses. The state’s Division of Purchasing said Monday they received appeals from six applicants who did not receive a license prior to Friday’s deadline. Some applicants have said Utah is […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s decision to award a smaller number of medical marijuana grower licenses has sparked protests from rejected applicants who claim the state is granting licenses to unqualified cultivators and will create a cannabis shortage. Colorado-based marijuana company North Star Holdings LLC claims in a formal […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah school district is paying $62,500 to settle a lawsuit filed after a junior high student was caught in a bus door and dragged about 175 feet (53 meters) in an alleged racially motivated incident. The incident occurred in February in West Point about […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The father of one of two 13-year-old Utah boys who fatally overdosed on a new synthetic opioid drug is suing a school district and the police department, saying officials knew the teen’s friends had been experimenting with the drug but didn’t communicate the danger to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah mother and daughter are suing a Davis County hospital in connection with a doctor convicted of child pornography. The Salt Lake City Tribune reports the victim and her mother said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that obstetrician-gynecologist Nathan Ward had taken drugs from Lakeview Hospital […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The family of a University of Utah student shot last year says in a lawsuit that college officials have refused to take responsibility for missing chances to prevent her death despite multiple reports to police. Lawyers for the family of track star Lauren McCluskey said […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah-based movie-filtering company has been ordered to pay more than $62 million to Disney and other Hollywood studios. A California jury decided the damages Monday against the company VidAngel, which had ripped the movies from DVDs and then streamed them for $1 per view […]
