OREM, Utah (AP) — A Utah city council has passed an ordinance outlawing demonstrations targeting homes following a protest outside the governor’s private residence. KSTU-TV reports the Orem City Council passed the ordinance after a protest targeted the private home of Republican Gov. Gary Herbert. The demonstration followed the announcement […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — School district officials in northern Utah have said a public meeting in American Fork was disrupted by protesters who characterized the use of masks and facial coverings in schools as child abuse. The Daily Herald reported Wednesday that Alpine School District Superintendent Assistant Kimberly Bird said […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of Utah teachers has organized an event to encourage educators across the state to call in sick and use the day off to get tested for the coronavirus as the state’s confirmed infection cases surge. Granite School District teacher Lindsay Plummer says there […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two men charged with helping to flip and damage a police car at a Utah demonstration that devolved into a riot have admitted to criminal charges. The Deseret News reports 21-year-old Connor Matthew Peebles and 19-year-old Ian Eric Nightingale pleaded guilty to criminal mischief. The […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Paris Hilton has been speaking out about abuse she said she suffered at a boarding school in Utah, and on Friday she took her push nearly to the school’s front doors. Hilton organized a protest in a park near Provo Canyon School, along with several hundreds […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police groups in Utah have called for The Salt Lake Tribune to apologize after it published an editorial cartoon implying white supremacists have infiltrated law enforcement. Police supporters staged a protest outside The Salt Lake Tribune’s printing press Thursday night after the Utah Sheriffs’ Association […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dozens of doctors, nurses and other health care workers and students knelt in support of anti-police brutality protests in Salt Lake City on Friday. About 100 people in Utah joined healthcare professionals around the country using the label White Coats for Black Lives to honor […]
A man captured on video aiming a bow and arrow at protesters in Salt Lake City over the weekend was charged Thursday with assault and weapon possession. Brandon McCormick was reportedly pushed to the ground on Saturday after pointing the bow and arrow at people protesting the death of George […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A third person has been charged in the destruction of a Salt Lake City police car set on fire during protests over the death of George Floyd. Prosecutors say Connor Peebles, of Belmont, Michigan, helped flip the vehicle onto its roof Saturday. Peebles was charged […]
