AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a child. The judge who delivered the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teen says he did not know a gun was loaded when he shot and killed his stepbrother, a report said. The teenager pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter Wednesday, The Deseret News reportedWednesday. Jerrad Jacobsen, 16, died at a home in the Salt Lake City […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A company that failed to report a large-scale ammonia discharge from its plant near St. Helens, Oregon, and annual ammonia emission estimates has entered into a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Dyno Nobel has agreed to pay a $492,000 fine […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge will allow the state of Utah to collect evidence as they defend a new ban on abortions after 18-weeks. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups said his Thursday ruling doesn’t signal the ultimate outcome of the case, but it would create a complete […]
A man accused of raping a teen girl is now facing new allegations of child sex abuse. According to Sanpete County prosecutors, 52-year-old David Pemberton groped a 14-year-old boy working at his cabin in Hideaway Valley back in the summer of 2017. Records show investigators later interviewed a second teen […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who killed his friend in 1997 but wasn’t convicted until more than a decade later is asking for parole. The Deseret News reported Tuesday that 67-year-old Alan Lee Marx told the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole at his hearing last week that he […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge says the time has come to let a community board have final decision-making authority about who is entitled to buy homes and properties in a trust that once belonged to Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect, ending court oversight that began 14 years ago. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man charged with threatening to kill a member of Congress during a series of phone calls to the U.S. Capitol has pleaded not guilty. Scott Brian Haven entered his plea to one count of interstate transmission of threats to injure Thursday in Salt […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Relatives of two Utah teenagers who were killed and dumped in an abandoned mine shaft are calling for prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against the man charged in their deaths. Jerrod Baum pleaded not guilty Monday to aggravated murder and other charges in the deaths […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A 50-year-old former police detective in Mesquite, Nevada, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Utah IN A teenage sex case. Court records show that Gary Erickson of Bunkerville, Nevada, avoided trial with his plea on Monday to a charge of crossing state lines to […]
