WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a West Valley City code-enforcement officer will likely get life in prison. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Kevin Wayne Billings is scheduled to be sentenced Monday morning after pleading guilty in February to aggravated murder, aggravated cruelty to an […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has admitted to beating his estranged wife to death with a crowbar and pummeling his 13-year-old daughter with the same tool. The Deseret News reports 55-year-old Walter Eugene Brantzeg of Salt Lake City pleaded guilty to the crimes Thursday as part of […]
CLEARFIELD, Utah (AP) — Utah prosecutors have declined to file charges against a store owner who fatally punched another man. News outlets reported that officials from the Davis County Attorney’s Office announced April 18 that they will not charge the owner for the altercation resulting in the death of 39-year-old […]
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A Utah filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced an Oscar-winning movie in the mid-1980s has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a child. Sterling Van Wagenen entered the plea Tuesday during a court hearing in American Fork, Utah, south of Salt Lake […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge will allow a former Disney Channel actor to order groceries online while he’s awaiting trial on charges alleging he tried to have sex with a 13-year-old boy, but she rebuffed requests to further ease restrictions on his home detention. A lawyer for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah high school English teacher who has been in prison for the last four years for sexually abusing three students has been granted parole. Utah Board of Pardons and Parole spokesman Dennis Moxon said Tuesday that 39-year-old Brianne Altice will be released Sept. […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A former professional football player has been sentenced for the stabbing death of his wife. Anthony McClanahan, 48, was sentenced to at least 15 years and up to life in prison for the November 2017 death of 28-year-old Keri McClanahan, The Deseret News reported Monday. McClanahan pleaded […]
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 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to a felony terroristic threat charge after authorities said he threating to target women in a mass shooting because he couldn’t get a girlfriend. Utah prosecutor Chad Grunander tells the Deseret News that 27-year-old Christopher W. Cleary of Denver was in court […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival has been charged with sexual abuse of a young girl. Online court records show 71-year-old Sterling Van Wagenen was charged on April 4 on accusation that he inappropriately touched a girl on two occasions between 2013-2015. […]
