WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to substantially overhaul the way music is licensed and songwriters compensated for songs online is being sent to the president’s desk for his signature. Congress cleared the bill Tuesday, giving final passage to a rare bipartisan accord between Republican and Democratic lawmakers. It enjoyed wide support […]
BULLFROG, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a Colorado man is missing and presumed dead after jumping off a houseboat north of Lake Powell. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area officials identify the missing man as 41-year-old Daniel Patrick McGuckin of Avon. They received a distress call Saturday afternoon about a man […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A meeting between top state law enforcement officials and Attorney General Jeff Sessions about how the government can safeguard the privacy of social media users ended Tuesday without a decision on whether to investigate. The gathering at the Justice Department was scheduled to discuss whether tech giants […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors say they’re working to reach a plea agreement with a former evidence technician accused of stealing methamphetamine from a police evidence locker. The Standard-Examiner reports that Deputy Weber County Attorney Branden Miles made the statement Tuesday, shortly after the former sheriff’s employee made her first appearance in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart has been transferred to a federal halfway house following her release from prison. An online entry in the Utah sex-offender registry shows 72-year-old Wanda Barzee is listed as living at a contracted residential re-entry center in Salt Lake […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An uncle of a 14-year-old killed in an accidental shooting by nearby target shooters says the family has let go of their anger over the tragedy. Authorities have identified the teen that was accidentaly shot in the head Sunday while he riding in car with […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The estimated cost for a new wastewater treatment plant in northern Utah has increased by $25 million over the last two years, and officials say it’s because of climbing construction costs and President Donald Trump’s steel tariffs. The Logan Herald Journal reports Wednesday officials are planning to borrow […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With election season heating up, people in Utah can register to vote at a series of events on National Voter Registration Day. The Tuesday holiday will include events at Glendale and Columbus libraries and University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and there are other […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of public participation opportunities in oil and gas lease sales in Western states that were largely eliminated by the Trump administration to speed up sales. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Bush in a Friday ruling sided with environmentalists who sued […]
