SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, an announcement that comes shortly after the first known case in Congress. McAdams said he first became sick with “mild, cold-like symptoms” shortly after returning to Salt Lake City from Washington on Saturday. […]
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self has spent much of the past week mulling ways to commemorate one of the more remarkable seasons in the school’s proud basketball history, one that began with off-the-court distractions too numerous to count and ended in the unprecedented cancellation of the NCAA […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The parents of a Utah woman who died while in jail have settled a lawsuit against a county for $950,000. Calvin and Kim Ostler sued Salt Lake County over the 2016 death of their daughter, Lisa Marie Ostler, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Jailers believed she […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert ordered statewide closures at restaurants, bars and other eateries Tuesday while health officials in the national parks hot spot of Moab halted new overnight tourists to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. The steps came as the number of […]
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A recall was issued for frozen berries manufactured at a farm near Lynden, Washington amid potential exposure to Norovirus, federal food regulators said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and WinCo Foods issued the recall last Friday for frozen berries manufactured at Rader Farms and distributed […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s two largest hospital systems have delayed elective surgeries and other non-urgent medical procedures to save space and equipment for future patients with the new coronavirus. Intermountain Healthcare and University of Utah Health expect an influx of coronavirus patients in the coming weeks. Though most […]
DENVER (AP)-Vail Resorts said Tuesday that it will keep its North American resorts closed for the rest of the ski season because of the coronavirus but it will consider reopening three of its locations in late April or early May depending on the situation with the disease then as well […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah County Attorney David Leavitt has announced he will run for state attorney general following a year in his job with the county. Leavitt announced in a Facebook video last Friday that he will challenge current Republican Attorney General Sean Reyes. Leavitt has made strides […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Investigators say they don’t know what triggered an explosion that killed a man at an engineering business in northern Utah. The Standard-Examiner in Ogden reported Monday that police in Brigham City have completed their investigation into the March 10 blast at HyPerComp Engineering but were unable to pinpoint […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah jury acquitted a man charged with murder after finding he shot and killed an acquaintance in self-defense. Jurors in Provo’s 4th District Court found 20-year-old Elbert John Paule guilty of a single charge of obstructing justice Friday, The Deseret News reports. The obstruction charge was […]
