WASATCH COUNTY, Utah-Reports released early in the 7:00 pm hour Sunday evening confirm the bodies of the missing boaters at Strawberry Reservoir have been found, per statements from Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby. The boaters were brothers, 70-year-old Jim Gardiner and 61-year-old Mark Gardiner who were first reported as missing […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — Ten years ago, Wendy Kerbs was killed while gardening in her yard. A man who was drunk and high on meth at the time had been driving 50 mph (81 kph) on a residential street near Kerbs’ house in the northern Utah city of Roy. He […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — At first, the co-owner of the quirky alien-themed motel down a Nevada highway from the mysterious Area 51 site didn’t take a posting for a prank Facebook event too seriously. Then, her phone started ringing. “It doesn’t stop, our phone won’t stop ringing,” Connie West, of […]
UTAH COUNTY, Utah- 9:52 pm Per a report from KUTV 2 News in Salt Lake City, the man who drowned was identified as Albert John “AJ” Mapa. Mapa had returned from serving a mission in Tonga for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 8:50 pm The body of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say Utah’s planned request for more federal funding for expanding its Medicaid program is being rejected by President Donald Trump’s administration. A statement released Saturday by Gov. Gary R. Herbert and top legislative leaders said the White House told Utah officials late Friday that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In a story July 22 about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ top leader speaking at the NAACP convention in Detroit, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted a passage from the Book of Mormon. The passage reads, “all are alike unto God,” not “all […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man is accused of robbing the same bank twice. A federal indictment charges 52-year-old Anthony Thomas Murdzak of Logan with robbing a Wells Fargo branch in Ogden on June 4 and June 24, allegedly getting a total of $8,650 from tellers on the two […]
THISTLE, Utah (AP) — A 10-mile stretch of a rural highway in central Utah remained closed Saturday after flash flooding from storm runoff sent mud and debris over the roadway. The Utah Department of Transportation said the flooding Friday night closed U.S. 89 south of the junction with U.S. 6 […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Utah’s Olympic Park has announced an $11 million expansion to renovate training facilities and strengthen the state’s bid to host a second Winter Olympics. Officials said at a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday that the project will add as many 10 new ski runs over the next […]
FREDONIA, Ariz. (AP) — A wildfire being allowed to burn on the Arizona Strip north of the Grand Canyon has grown to 2.6 square miles (7 square kilometers) within a much larger planning area where public-land managers say the fire is removing excess vegetation from the forest floor. The lightning-caused […]
