LAYTON, Utah (AP) — Utah Republican leaders refused Saturday to erase a bylaw to deny ballot spots for candidates who collect voter signatures instead of winning approval from the party’s caucus-convention system. The State Central Committee voted 68-40 to erase the bylaw, short of the two-thirds majority required for a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Charges filed against a Salt Lake City-area man accuse him of using a dead person’s name in creating a payroll services business that allegedly filed false tax returns. The state Tax Commission said Saturday that 75-year-old Dan Roberts of Holladay faces 10 counts of filing […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Bret Alexander is the picture of success: He recently began his first year as a graduate student at Weber State University studying higher education leadership and leads the school as student body president. He’s also the school’s first openly gay student elected to the position. But […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The photo that flashed onto the courtroom screen showed a young man dead on his bedroom floor, bare feet poking from the cuffs of his rolled up jeans. Lurking on a trash can at the edge of the picture was what prosecutors said delivered this […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Authorities say eight people were detained for questioning after shots were fired the on the campus of a suburban Salt Lake City high school during a football game. No injuries were reported in the Friday night incident at Granger High School in West Valley […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A movement to put jailhouse informants under a more powerful microscope before they testify is gaining traction around the country, a byproduct of new DNA testing technology that has exonerated dozens of people wrongly locked up based on informants’ lies. Several states have moved to toughen […]
RIVERDALE, Utah (AP) — A report on a 2017 plane crash that killed four people says the pilot lost control before the aircraft went down on the median of Interstate 15 shortly after takeoff. The National Transportation Safety Board factual report released this month doesn’t conclude what caused the July […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah police department has concluded that its officers acted within law and policy after an investigation into a recent officer-involved shooting. The Standard-Examiner reported Wednesday that Ogden Police Chief Randy Watt presented investigation findings to city council Tuesday after four officers shot and killed 26-year-old Jovany Mercado […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters who forget to sign the envelope on their early ballots will have a chance after Election Day to fix their mistake. The Arizona Republic reports the state Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has agreed to a new policy to require officials to notify voters about missing signatures […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The father of a Utah woman who was killed four years ago with her young son says he didn’t like the idea of the plea deal given to his daughter’s boyfriend but knew it was the only way to find the bodies. Jesse Quijano said […]
