OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Utah lawmakers are considering a crackdown on catalytic converter theft, in which criminals saw the emission control devices from cars and sell the precious metals found inside to a booming worldwide black market. The Standard Examiner reports that Republican Utah Rep. Ryan Wilcox is sponsoring a […]
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Rescue crews in Yellowstone National Park have recovered the body of a 67-year-old Washington state man and are searching for his half-brother after the pair failed to return from a backcountry canoe trip. Crews searched Tuesday from the air and along the shore of […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Since Utah lawmakers passed legislation earlier this year allowing immigrants to become police for the first time, the Ogden Police Department has received a number of applicants. Chief Eric Young tells the Standard-Examiner sees the change as a means to help with recruitment of new officers, […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — An armed school employee in Utah held off an attempted kidnapping suspect at gunpoint until officers arrived, police said. It started when the man approached an 11-year-old girl at a school playground in Ogden and grabbed her. Police say he tried to pull her away until […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a trial over whether a Utah county is liable for civil damages after an inmate bled to death in a jail cell in 2016. U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish in Salt Lake City set a trial start date of Jan. 24, […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities in Utah say a 41-year-old woman was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot by an ex-boyfriend who later shot himself following an hours-long standoff with police. The unnamed suspect in the violent confrontation in Ogden survived and police said he was in […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities in Utah say two hikers have been rescued by county search teams and a state helicopter after they became stranded on an icy cliff near Ogden. The Standard-Examiner reported Wednesday that Weber County sheriff’s office search and rescue said Tuesday on social media that the […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities in Utah have launched an investigation after a grocery store owner in Ogden was fatally shot at his business on Sunday. The Standard-Examiner reported that Ogden Police Lt. Brian Eynon said Monday that the suspected shooter entered the Super Grocery around 11:50 p.m. and talked […]
NORTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A charter school in northern Utah that is allowing parents to opt students out of its Black History Month curriculum has sparked a debate over if parents should have the option. The Standard-Examiner reported that Maria Montessori Academy Director Micah Hirokawa said on the school’s […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The Ogden branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Utah organized a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally against racial injustice Monday. Roughly 25 cars congregated with social distance in the Utah city to say that the problems that resulted in […]
