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Higher Seat Belt Enforcement Mar. 22-25

Higher Seat Belt Enforcement Mar. 22-25

The Utah Department of Public Safety wants to inform Utahns that increased seat belt enforcement will occur statewide from Mar. 22 to Mar. 25. In a press release they shared that over 18 law enforcement agencies throughout the state will work more than 120 overtime shifts to stop and educate […]

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Helicopter retrieves ailing hiker on Utah’s Mt. Timpanogos

Helicopter retrieves ailing hiker on Utah’s Mt. Timpanogos

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Authorities used a state Department of Public Safety helicopter to make an overnight rescue of an ailing 21-year-old hiker stranded high on Mt. Timpanogos in north-central Utah. Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon says the helicopter late Tuesday night retrieved the man and a 75-year-old hiker […]

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Protesters demand firing of Utah cop who pulled gun on child

Protesters demand firing of Utah cop who pulled gun on child

WOODS CROSS, Utah (AP) — Dozens of protesters have gathered outside a police agency in northern Utah to demand the firing of an officer who pulled his gun on a 10-year-old child last week. Organizers of the demonstration outside police headquarters in Woods Cross north of Salt Lake City said […]

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Utah will investigate case of police drawing gun on child

Utah will investigate case of police drawing gun on child

WOODS CROSS, Utah (AP) — An attorney for a Utah police department where a white officer drew his gun on a 10-year-old black child says Utah law enforcement will investigate the incident. Attorney Heather White said Friday the Utah Department of Public Safety has agreed to investigate possible criminal charges […]

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Hunt on for driver suspected of fatal Utah highway shooting

Hunt on for driver suspected of fatal Utah highway shooting

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Latest on a Utah shooting and Idaho manhunt (all times local): 6:10 p.m. A California man wanted in the fatal shooting of a motorist on a desolate stretch of interstate highway near the Utah-Idaho border has been charged with aggravated murder. Online Utah court records […]

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Woman passenger dies after vehicle hits horse in Utah County

Woman passenger dies after vehicle hits horse in Utah County

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah County authorities say a woman is dead after the vehicle she was riding in hit a horse. They say the horse wandered onto state Route 198 in Payson late Saturday night. Utah Department of Public Safety officials tell the Deseret News that the man […]

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38 people arrested under new Utah drunk driving law

38 people arrested under new Utah drunk driving law

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Public Safety says it arrested nearly 40 people under Utah’s new drunk driving law in its first month. Fox 13 reported Monday that 38 people were arrested in January under the state’s DUI law implemented that month. Authorities say the statute lowers the […]

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BYU appeals as state seeks to decertify school’s police

BYU appeals as state seeks to decertify school’s police

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brigham Young University has vowed to fight to keep its police department, as the state plans to decertify the force. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the private university on Friday filed a formal appeal with the Utah Department of Public Safety, calling the state’s efforts an “extreme […]

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Utah authorities identify snowmobiler killed in avalanche

Utah authorities identify snowmobiler killed in avalanche

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities have identified a central Utah man who died after an avalanche buried him as he was snowmobiling. Summit County sheriff’s officials say 49-year-old Jason Lyman, of Mona, was on a snowmobile about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of Salt Lake City on Saturday when […]

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Snowmobiler in Utah dies after being buried by an avalanche

Snowmobiler in Utah dies after being buried by an avalanche

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a central Utah man is dead after an avalanche buried him while he was snowmobiling about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of Salt Lake City. Summit County Sheriff’s officials say the slide triggered Saturday afternoon near Coalville trapped the man in deep snow. […]

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