SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake County’s district attorney says a South Salt Lake police officer who shot at two burglary suspects inside a car that fatally ran over another officer last December won’t be prosecuted. District Attorney Sim Gill said Officer Carson Aprato’s gunfire was legally justified because […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Utah are lifting evacuation orders for residents of hundreds of homes in a Salt Lake City suburb after a wildfire burned three homes and damaged eight others. Officials on Saturday announced the lifting of evacuation orders effective 11 a.m. for 240 homes […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new test program in Utah allows some people who have been convicted of multiple DUIs across the state to keep their driver’s license if they pass a series of sobriety tests given multiple times a day for a year, officials said. The 24/7 Sobriety […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah couple are accused of depriving their teenage daughter of food and chaining her. KSL-TV reports 33-year-old Trev Jordan Tutt and 35-year-old Kimberly Marie Tutt, of Ogden, were charged Friday with child abuse. Kimberly Tutt also faces an aggravated assault charge. It wasn’t immediately clear whether they […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man was convicted Friday of running a multimillion-dollar opioid ring that sent hundreds of thousands of potentially deadly pills across the country in a scheme that authorities said helped fuel the nation’s opioid epidemic. A jury reached the verdict after deliberating about eight […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A wildfire in northern Utah that destroyed three homes was 10% contained as of Friday afternoon. The fire, which was caused by a campfire, is estimated to have grown to about 365 acres (148 hectares), said Kim Osborn, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman. Officials are […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Motorized electric bicycles may soon be humming onto serene trails in national parks and other public lands nationwide. It’s part of a new Trump administration order — hotly opposed by many outdoors groups — that will allow the so-called e-bikes on every federal trail where a regular […]
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah (AP) — A Saratoga Springs mother is accused of threatening to shoot employees at a dental office because she had to reschedule her children’s appointment. The Daily Herald in Provo reported Friday that 43-year-old Linda Morford was booked on suspicion of a threat of terrorism. It was not immediately […]
NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a transgender woman in Oregon was violently assaulted by another beach-goer after she used the women’s restroom at a coastal park. Court documents say Fred Costanza walked more than 100 yards across Agate Beach State Park in Newport, Oregon to reach the woman after […]
