SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah mayor is announcing a bid to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop. Kaysville Mayor Katie Witt said Monday she wants to represent northern Utah in Congress to “preserve freedom, expand opportunity, and re-ignite American patriotism.” She says she wants to counter an interest […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints already knew they were discouraged from taking their guns to church on Sunday, but it is making sure that message is crystal clear by tweaking the policy to prohibit all “lethal weapons.” The previous […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A number of counties in Utah are reporting mosquito populations carrying West Nile virus following a spring with weather conditions that allowed the pests to flourish. The Deseret News reported Sunday that officials in Davis, Salt Lake, Sevier, Uintah and Weber counties have found mosquito populations with […]
The Pac-12 says it will make a public statement this football season on certain potentially controversial officiating calls as part of the conference’s efforts to provide more transparency. The Pac-12 announced the communications protocol Monday, along with new replay officiating procedures. Both were in response to recommendations made by an outside […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas prosecutor says a 39-year-old man killed six members of his ex-wife’s family as part of a plan to harm anyone who had helped the woman. Ronald Lee Haskell is charged with capital murder in the July 2014 shootings. Harris County prosecutor Samantha Knecht said in opening statements […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The family of a Utah couple killed in a 2017 plane crash say in a lawsuit that the plane’s fueling mechanism was partly to blame for the deaths. The Standard-Examiner reports Perry and Sarah Huffaker’s relatives are suing Wisconsin-based Eagle Fuel Cells, alleging a fuel bladder on Beech […]
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Police are calling the shooting death of a teenage girl at a house party in Taylorsville suspicious. KUTV of Salt Lake City reported Monday that investigators say 17-year-old Kaylissa O’Leary was shot and killed Saturday night and her car remains missing. Unified police Sgt. Melody Gray says a […]
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Stretches of trails inside Zion National Park are temporarily closed after a rockfall injured three people over the weekend. Salt Lake City’s KSL-TV reports the incident happened Saturday shortly before 6 p.m. around Cable Mountain. Park officials said in a news release that a […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Police in West Valley City have identified a man who was fatally shot by an officer during an arrest. They say 31-year-old Chad Michael Breinholt was under investigation for alleged DUI and was being processed at the police station in the basement of West […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jake Butt only played 11 snaps for Denver, and he made only two catches. The tight end’s return from his latest major knee surgery still thrilled his teammates on an otherwise quiet preseason night for both the Broncos and the Rams. Brandon Allen passed for 162 […]
