SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Jazz president Steven Starks has been named the new CEO of the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies. Company officials said Wednesday the 40-year-old executive will leave the NBA franchise team next week to oversee the company’s car dealerships, sports teams, movie theaters and […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Police say panic spread briefly through a Utah mall after a falling sign made a gunshot-like sound, reflecting widespread anxiety after recent back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. The Deseret News reports that no one was hurt and a search found no shooter at Valley […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a state law that replaced the voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana. The court Tuesday dismissed the petition by The People’s Right group that argued the governor and the state Legislature acted unconstitutionally when they replaced the […]
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A 30-year-old Utah man faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to the 2015 killings of his former girlfriend and her young son. The Utah County Attorney’s Office said Christopher Poulson pleaded guilty Tuesday in state District Court in American Fork to murder […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Thousands of dead fish have washed ashore at a reservoir in northern Utah this summer. The Standard-Examiner reports biologists with Utah Division of Wildlife Resources have noticed a massive die-off of fish at Pineview Reservoir in Weber County. Many of the fish were young black crappies. Black crappies […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A lawsuit filed in the death of a black man shot after he ran from Salt Lake City police has been moved to federal court. The Deseret News reports the change was made Monday in the case filed in the 2017 death of 50-year-old Patrick Harmon. His […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Logan teenager who fatally shoved a homeless man who he wrongly suspected of groping his sister will serve 30 days in juvenile detention. The Herald Journal reports authorities have said the 17-year-old pushed Michael Fife on April 23, after his sister said the man had touched her […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City police say a man is dead after being shot during an encounter with police officers responding to a 911 hang-up call. Police said the officers fired their weapons but that additional details on what happened during the incident Monday evening at an […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is becoming the first Deep South state to dispense medical marijuana on Tuesday, four years after state lawmakers agreed to give patients access to therapeutic cannabis. Nine pharmacies are licensed to dispense medical marijuana across Louisiana and most are expected to open this week. […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who pleaded guilty to the strangulation death of his wife has been sentenced to serve up to 45 years in prison, a report said. Curtis Nichols, 37, was sentenced Monday for killing Robin Nichols in the couple’s home in August 2017, KUTV reportedMonday. Police […]
