SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Division of Wildlife Resources employee has been hospitalized after he was accidentally injected with a tranquilizer drug while tracking bears in remote Utah. Division of Wildlife Resources spokeswoman Robin Cahoon says the man was flown to a hospital in Provo on Tuesday after he […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a high-profile Utah businessman who is serving a federal prison sentence for lying to banks is back in custody after a few hours of freedom when he was mistakenly released from the Salt Lake County jail. Jeremy Johnson’s attorney, Mary Corporon, tells the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Jason Chaffetz are trying to repeal a federal plan to reduce haze at eastern Utah national parks from nearby coal-powered plants. The proposal from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would require two coal-powered plants in Utah to cut emissions […]
PREWITT, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say the man suspected of gunning down a tribal police officer on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation was found hiding on a ridge not far from his rural home in western New Mexico. The McKinley County Sheriff’s Office in a report obtained by the […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Smithfield man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his father to death has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that 26-year-old Shane Alan Hallstrom pleaded guilty to murder in the death of his father, 58-year-old Calvin Leon Hallstrom. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials are reviewing how the state would be affected by a plan from congressional Republicans to replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, but local health advocates say it could make coverage unaffordable for older people and the poor. Gov. Gary Herbert has said […]
Cody Howell, who goes to North Sanpete High School, will compete today at Westminster College, among 5 other statewide finalists for a chance to go to Washington D.C.for the National Poetry Out Loud Finals High schools around the state participated in Poetry Out Loud activities and competed in six region […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has announced its putting up a billboard urging cat owners to keep their felines indoors in a Utah city where a pet cat was beaten, tortured and left to die. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the 6-year-old […]
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — The Utah Fraternal Order of Police is speaking out against any possible rush to judgment in the case of a 30-year-old West Jordan police officer and U.S. military veteran accused of domestic violence and kidnapping. James Harvie of Orem was being held in the Utah […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Police are investigating a possible homicide at a home in Provo. Sgt. Brian Taylor told The (Provo) Daily Herald a 24-year-old man was shot at about 11:20 p.m. Monday at the home near 400 West and 100 North. He says the man’s girlfriend took him to […]
