SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State Democratic leaders and a couple of small business owners are blasting Utah’s Republican leadership for its stubborn stance on public lands that led a lucrative outdoor trade show to leave town. Democrat State Party Chair Peter Corroon said Tuesday at a news conference that […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Lawmakers in several states are considering requirements for doctors to inform women seeking medical abortions about an unproven procedure called “abortion reversal.” Doctors’ groups oppose the bills because of flawed science and ethical concerns. There is no evidence the procedure works and little information about its safety. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A plan that would expand capital punishment in Utah so that criminals convicted of aggravated human trafficking or child sex exploitation that leads to death could be executed has made it through the House of Representatives. The plan passed by a single vote on Tuesday […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors say two Utah teens charged with shooting a 14-year-old girl in the back of the head and leaving her wounded in a ditch lured her there with a plan to rob and kill her. Charging documents filed Tuesday say the 16-year-old boys told the girl […]
(West Mountain, UT) – Utah County deputies say a suspect they have in custody is facing kidnapping charges. Nicholas Leippe was arrested yesterday after deputies responded to a domestic call at a remote home located in West Mountain, near Payson. When no one would answer the door, deputies broke it down […]
(Cedar City, UT) – Health officials are reaching out to folks who lived in southern Utah decades ago during the Nevada nuclear tests. Any “downwinder” living in southern Utah back in the 50s and 60s was exposed to radiation from 100 atomic bomb tests carried out in the Nevada desert near […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The sight of young men doing the haka dance has become a common occurrence at football games in Utah, but some Maori people think the widespread use can betray the sacred origin of their cultural ritual. The Salt Lake Tribune reports things like shirt-tearing or […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State lawmakers say they’ve resurrected a bill to allow carrying concealed guns without a permit. “The Salt Lake Tribune” says the bill that died earlier this month on a tied vote was resurrected today after a couple members absent from the first vote came out […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Researchers at the University of Utah think they may have a solution to the growing epidemic of opioid abuse and addiction. Doctors at the university are studying the venom from a type of snail that is a safer long-term treatment for people with chronic pain. Their […]
(Cedar City, UT) – A free classical piano clinic and concert are on the agenda at Southern Utah University next week. SUU’s music department is sponsoring a visit by classical pianist Pierce Emata. The University of Indiana grad and a current member of the faculty at Michigan’s Interlochen Arts Camp will […]
