SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The latest push to loosen gun laws in states across the U.S. has put police officers at odds with Republican lawmakers who usually trumpet support for law enforcement. In states like Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana, police opposed pushes to drop requirements for people to get […]
MOAB, Utah (AP) — A woman who fainted and hit her head on a rock after stopping to rest in Utah’s Arches National Park woke up to hear a familiar voice and wondered if she might be watching television. Minnie John of Oradell, New Jersey, then questioned whether she might […]
DENVER (AP) — Smoke from wildfires burning in California and other parts of the U.S. West continued to flow into parts of Colorado and Utah on Sunday. Sunday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ranked the air quality in many areas of the state as unhealthy. Conditions in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-In March 2020, certain circumstances arbitrarily determined how Utah law graduates were admitted to the bar. The Utah Supreme Court permitted law students, such as Chase Wilde, and other graduates, to practice without taking this exam. This concept is widely known as “diploma privilege.” All this process […]
DENVER (AP) — As huge plums of wildfire smoke from California moved east, Denver’s air quality ranked among the worst in the world Saturday afternoon. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued an air quality health advisory until Sunday, warning that people — especially those with respiratory illnesses like asthma or COPD […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Three weeks after graffiti laden with Nazi symbols, codes and slogans appeared in a Logan High School parking lot, the local police investigation appears to have stalled. “The case is still open, but at this point, there’s not new information coming in,” Logan City Police Department’s […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Sefu Toilolo says he’s glad his daughter’s killer has pleaded guilty, but now her family “is hoping for the max” when the Pleasant View man is sentenced. “It hurts so much for us, what he did to my daughter,” Toilolo told the Standard-Examiner. “All she did […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A California man drowned after rescuing his child who was struggling to swim in Lake Powell on the Arizona–Utah border. The National Park Service says the family rented a ski boat, toured the lake and stopped in a cove near Warm Creek Bay on Thursday. Two children went swimming without […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Smoke filled the skies of Utah Friday as a cold front swept wildfire smoke into the state. The front moving in from the west picked up smoke from fires in California and Oregon, including the growing Dixie Fire that leveled a small California town earlier this week, National Weather Service […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Per Friday news, former Utah Gov. Michael O. Leavitt has been named as the new president of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. Leavitt will be joined by his wife, Jacalyn, in fulfilling this new role. Leavitt replaces Ron Jarrett, who has served as president of the choir […]
