SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Attorney General’s Office is investigating the hacking of a video call hosted by a gubernatorial candidate who saw the call hijacked by pornographic images and racial slurs on Thursday. Republican Aimee Winder Newton was about five minutes into the virtual event on the Zoom platform […]
ELY, NEV. (AP) — A highway patrol trooper was shot, his patrol vehicle was stolen and a suspect was arrested Friday with possible explosives following a confrontation a little before dawn in a remote area of northeastern Nevada, authorities said. The Nevada Highway Patrol did not immediately provide information about the condition […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake City Police Department has launched an investigation Thursday into a possible hate crime after a man was arrested on multiple sexual misconduct charges. Adam Quinn Atwood, 34, was accused of sexually assaulting a lesbian, who said he told her he would “fix the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nearly 20,000 new people applied for unemployment in Utah last week, an exponential increase that’s in line with national data released Thursday amid widespread business closures related to the new coronavirus. The food preparation and services industry took the biggest hit, with a 37% increase in unemployment claims […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is sticking with its crowd-friendly waiver of entrance fees at national parks during the coronavirus pandemic, as managers at some parks try and fail to keep visitors a safe distance apart and communities appeal for a shutdown at the parks still open. Vice President […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau has released a report on the fastest-growing regions across the country, citing three Utah areas. Wasatch County was listed as the third fastest-growing county in the past decade, while St. George and Provo-Orem were on the top 10 list of fastest-growing […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The number of coronavirus cases in Arizona has now risen to more than 500 with eight dead, health officials said Thursday. The Arizona Department of Health Services confirmed that 508 cases have now been reported. More than half are in Maricopa County. All but two eastern counties — Gila […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman died as a result of injuries sustained during an accident while riding an all-terrain vehicle, authorities said. The woman was riding 4-wheel ATVs with a friend at the Little Sahara Sand Dunes in West Desert Sunday, The Daily Herald reports. The name of the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who was released early last week from a Utah halfway house because of the spread of the coronavirus attacked a woman in her home two days later, tying her up and threatening her with a knife, police said Wednesday. But state corrections officials did not […]
OGDEN, UTAH (AP) — DRUG agents in Utah have apologized for serving a warrant at the wrong house after breaking down a door and handcuffing a staff member and a resident of an Ogden group home for the mentally disabled. Ogden Police Lt. Chris Kovalsky said the department will review its procedures following […]
