ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — The suspect in a Utah fatal shooting has died of self-inflicted injuries suffered while he fled from authorities, police said. The Cedar City Police Department confirmed the death of 26-year-old Chaz Bennett Wednesday, The Spectrum reported. Bennett’s body will be transported to the Utah State Medical […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Revenues could be down more than a billion dollars in Utah’s budget next year due to the coronavirus pandemic’s devastating effects on the economy, lawmakers learned as they prepared for widespread budget cuts during a Wednesday hearing. State agencies will face cuts of up to […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation’s health department is reporting 41 new cases of coronavirus and one more death on the vast reservation. Tribal officials said there have been 3,245 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday night with 103 known deaths. Most of the positive cases are in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday of the threat of a prolonged recession resulting from the viral outbreak and urged Congress and the White House to act further to prevent long-lasting economic damage. The Fed and Congress have taken far-reaching steps to try to counter what […]
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming planning commission approved a permit to build a utility-scale solar farm, but the project still requires county approval. The Natrona County Planning Commission approved a permit Tuesday for the proposed solar energy project by Dinosolar LLC, a subsidiary of Utah-based Enyo Renewable Energy, The […]
NEW YORK (AP) — As the nation’s houses of worship weigh how and when to resume in-person gatherings while coronavirus stay-at-home orders ease in some areas, a new poll points to a partisan divide over whether restricting those services violates religious freedom. Questions about whether states and localities could restrict […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A coalition of U.S. states, environmentalists and an American Indian tribe are seeking to revive a moratorium on coal sales from federal lands that was imposed under former President Barack Obama then dropped by the Trump administration. A Wednesday video conference hearing in the dispute is […]
VINEYARD, Utah (AP) — A person was shot and killed during a home invasion Tuesday, police said. Several others were taken into custody after the slaying at an apartment complex in Vineyard, Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon told the Daily Herald. One was arrested near the scene, and two to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s onetime presidential campaign chairman who was convicted as part of the special counsel’s Russia investigation, has been released from federal prison to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement due to concerns about the coronavirus, his lawyer said Wednesday. Manafort, 71, was released Wednesday […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A $5,000 marble sculpture has been found resting in a grassy field in northern Utah about two weeks after it was stolen from a local art business, authorities said. The 400-pound (181-kilogram) sculpture was found intact near Collinston Friday by two people on their morning jog […]
