SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake County prosecutors have decided against charging a Unified Police Department officer in an April 17 fatal shooting in which a man was killed while holding an ex-girlfriend hostage in a pickup truck. The District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday it believed any court proceedings […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A 48-year-old former evidence technician has pleaded guilty to charges accusing her of eating and consuming methamphetamine while working in the Weber County Sheriff’s Office’s evidence locker. Candice Barbara Follum pleaded guilty Tuesday to 20 counts of destroying or altering public records and 20 counts of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper, is telling skeptical Democrats that an agreement reached between Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints leaders, lawmakers and marijuana proponents wasn’t done to sabotage the medical marijuana ballot initiative. Unlike Proposition 2, which would legalize medical marijuana for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A sex offender who killed a University of Utah student he briefly dated once said at a parole hearing that he was a womanizer who manipulated women to get what he wanted. Melvin Rowland said he was attracted to teenage girls and vulnerable women, and […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Just four games into the season the Houston Rockets already have three losses, have dealt with the suspension of Chris Paul and now must wait to see if a hamstring injury will cause James Harden to miss any time. Donovan Mitchell scored 38 points to lead the […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah man accused of helping a teenage girl kill herself and filming the act because he was fascinated with death has pleaded guilty to child abuse homicide. In accepting a plea deal Tuesday in a Provo court, prosecutors say, 19-year-old Tyerell Joe Przybycien of Spanish […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A sex offender who killed a University of Utah student he briefly dated once said at a parole hearing that he was a womanizer who manipulated women to get what he wanted. Melvin Rowland said he was attracted to teenage girls and vulnerable women, and […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, and his Democratic competitor, James Singer, squared off in a race for the state’s 3rd Congressional District. Curtis, the former mayor of Provo, and Singer, a sociology professor at Salt Lake Community College, verbally sparred Tuesday in an effort to gain voters’ […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Climatologists say conditions are right for development of an El Nino weather pattern that could bring wetter than normal conditions this winter in drought-stricken area of the southwestern U.S. But weather researchers said Wednesday that even if an El Nino occurs, that doesn’t assure that parched […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos have waived backup quarterback Chad Kelly a day after he was arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass after a couple reported he came into their suburban home uninvited and sat down on their couch “mumbling incoherently.” General manager John Elway huddled with coach […]
