SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An investigation into missed warning signs before the death of a University of Utah student shot by a man she briefly dated shows campus police are overtaxed and need more training in handling domestic violence cases, authorities said Wednesday. The probe also found that friends […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Almost 2.5 million people have moved to Florida since the beginning of the decade. Figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau show Florida had 21.3 million residents, as of last July. The Sunshine State has grown by 13.3 percent in the last eight years, and […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A former Weber County Sheriff’s Office evidence technician who stole and ate methamphetamine while working in the evidence locker faces having to serve a year in jail. Candice Follum was sentenced Tuesday under a plea agreement that requires that the 48-year-old serve half her time behind […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, hoping to keep numbers low for the contagious liver disease. It’s the 15th state to declare an outbreak. Dr. Joe Kanter says Louisiana’s 25 outbreak cases are far fewer than in nearby states including Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. He says officials hope […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a story Dec. 13 about the Colorado River, The Associated Press erroneously reported the river’s mouth. The river empties into the Gulf of California, not the Gulf of Mexico. A corrected version of the story is below: Southwestern US states get Jan. 31 deadline for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah County Commission and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert agreed to end their legal fight. The Deseret News reports the commission voted Monday to put forth a new nominee to the Utah Transit Authority’s new board. Herbert later Monday accepted the nomination, and county leaders promised to […]
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — The FBI has released the identity of a man who fatally shot himself and three other people and critically wounded a fifth person at a home in northwestern New Mexico last month. The FBI said Tuesday that the shooter in the Nov. 13 incident at a […]
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — Pleasant Grove police say a 12-year-old boy is dead after being struck by a large truck Monday night. Police say the boy was in a crosswalk where the truck’s driver apparently didn’t see him as he made a right-hand turn on a red light. According […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A Tonalea man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for assaulting a Navajo Nation police officer. Federal prosecutors say 30-year-old Randell William Lane got a 26-month prison term Monday. He also was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to three years […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 29-year-old Utah man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the armed carjacking of an elderly woman in a casino parking garage in northern Nevada. Andrew Brigman of Layton pleaded guilty earlier to use of a firearm during a crime of violence in […]
