SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A teenager who authorities accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb at a southern Utah high school after watching Islamic State propaganda been sentenced to four years of probation. The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that that the 17-year-old boy was […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A southern Utah airport serving more than 200,000 commercial passengers a year will close for four months to let crews rip up and rebuild a runway undermined by unstable blue clay. St. George Regional Airport manager Rich Stehmeier tells The Spectrum the closure is scheduled May 29 […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A psychologist says a Utah teenager accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb after looking at Islamic State propaganda online has a long history of being bullied. The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that clinical psychologist Tim Kockler testified in the […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a Utah teenager told police he tried to blow up a homemade explosive device in his backpack at school because he’d been looking at Islamic State propaganda and wanted to cause fear. The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports prosecutors showed video Monday of the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a suspect has been arrested in the death of a St. George woman last week. St. George police say 28-year-old Kevin Ray Mcatlin was taken into custody Saturday in the Moab area on suspicion of murder. They say 33-year-old Elizabeth Carter was found […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A hearing officer’s order for the euthanasia of a dog deemed to be dangerous after it acted aggressively toward police responding to a domestic dispute in the southern Utah city of St. George has been put on hold following a social media furor. The Spectrum […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A former teacher who is accused of sexually abusing five girls when they were in elementary school in southwest Utah has pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Spectrum reports 59-year-old Curtis William Payne on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to 15 counts of aggravated child sexual abuse. […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Authorities suspect that lightning is responsible for a house fire in St. George that has caused up to $350,000 in damage. The Deseret News reports that St. George Fire Chief Robert Stoker said on Sunday that firefighters worked for up to two hours to extinguish the blaze […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The southwest Utah city of St. George has become the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan area, while rural Uintah County in the northeast corner of the state is among places that lost the greatest percentage of its population. U.S. Census data released Thursday also puts the Provo-Orem […]
