CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP)-Two House committee chairmen are trying to put the brakes on money for a new Trump administration proposal to accelerate the capture of wild horses across the West. Nevada Rep. Dina Titus’s high-desert state is home to about half the mustangs. She part of a bipartisan group […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-Donovan Mitchell had 30 points and six assists, Joe Ingles pitched in a season-high 23 points and the Utah Jazz beat Minnesota 127-116. The Timberwolves lost their sixth straight game. Rudy Gobert added 20 points and 16 rebounds for the Jazz, who won for just the third time in […]
PHOENIX (AP)-An Arizona elected official accused of paying women from a poor Pacific island nation to give their babies up for adoption in the United States made an appeal Wednesday to keep his job. Lawyers for Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen told the county Board of Supervisors that he did […]
HURRICANE, Utah (AP)-A pawn shop manager in Utah is being applauded after catching a baby that was about to fall off the store’s counter. The tumble was captured by the store’s surveillance cameras. Manager Bill Reel told KUTV in Salt Lake City that two women were looking at a rifle […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)-One of South Carolina’s most liberal lawmakers and one of its most conservative are joining up to fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. The 1970s’ era proposal would ban any discrimination based on sex. Democrat Gilda Cobb-Hunter of Orangeburg backs the amendment in the House and Republican Tom […]
WELLS, Nev. (AP)-The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a pedestrian who was hit by a car in the dark on Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada near Wells, Nev. The patrol identified the victim of Monday night’s accident as 24-year-old Prajedix Flores of West Wendover. The driver of […]
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP)-Authorities say a Nebraska man has been arrested in a cold-case killing of a Salt Lake City woman in her apartment. The South Sioux City Police Department said 55-year-old Bryan Reed awaits extradition to face Utah charges of murder and aggravated burglary in the August 18, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-The Utah Legislature has announced plans to tackle tax reform in a special session after receiving the recommendation from a legislative task force this week. Officials say Republican Gov. Gary Herbert has formally called a special legislative session Thursday at 5 p.m. to decide on the restructuring […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-A new University of Utah report says the state experienced a significant increase in its population over the past decade. The university’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute released analysis that found the growth was especially strong in Utah County. The institute found Utah County’s population increase led […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-The Utah Department of Transportation is installing a new temporary bridge to carry Interstate 80 traffic over Union Pacific railroad tracks in western Salt Lake County during a construction project. The state Department of Transportation says the temporary bridge in sections that crews are assembling next to […]
