SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A champion bodybuilder faces felony charges accusing him of raping a female bodybuilder in a Salt Lake City suburb last October. Court records indicate an arrest warrant issued Thursday charges 44-year-old Shawn Rhoden from Santa Barbara, California, with rape, object rape and forcible sexual abuse. […]
HEBER CITY, Utah (AP) — Signs of new life are appearing in part of northeastern Utah where a wildfire that torched more than 100 square miles (259 kilometers) a year ago. Grasses and flowers are returning to the area, with blue and yellow wildflowers blooming around the trunks of trees […]
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — Colorado wildlife inspectors have intercepted a record number of boats infested with invasive mussels as they try to keep the economically-damaging shellfish from entering state waters. The Loveland Reporter-Herald reports the Colorado Parks and Wildlife have found 51 boats with mussels so far this season across the state. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal indictment accuses a 24-year-old Salt Lake City-area man of distributing large quantities of fentanyl, including pills that resulted in the overdose death of a woman. John Aaron Favro of West Jordan was arrested Thursday on a July 3 indictment charging him with distribution […]
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — The Air Force is about to start a series of detonations of surplus rocket motors and sold fuel for ballistic missiles on the Utah Test and Training Range in western Utah. The sprawling range is located between Great Salt Lake and the Nevada […]
MOAB, Utah (AP) — Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been spotted in the eastern Utah city of Moab. The Deseret News reports officials detected the virus on July 2 in the Scott M. Matheson Wetlands Preserve. City officials received test results confirming the virus on Thursday. Moab is the first city […]
TOOELE, Utah (AP) — A Utah man has set a state spearfishing record. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has announced 39-year-old Jacob Hansen of Tooele broke the state record for spearfishing a tiger muskie fish on June 13 at Fish Lake in central Utah. Hansen’s record-breaking fish is 51 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A paper company is planning to build a mill in Utah to manufacture paper using only recycled fiber from materials like cardboard. KSL-TV reports Crossroads Paper announced Wednesday plans to construct a $320 million facility that it expects to be operational by early 2022. The company says […]
LEHI, Utah (AP) — Rufus isn’t the average fluffy teddy bear. “He has diabetes, just like me,” said Lyla Jackson, Rufus’ 10-year-old owner. “He even has a diabetes bracelet, just like I do.” And like Lyla, Rufus is all about raising awareness about Type 1 diabetes. From July 8 through […]
NEPHI, Utah (AP) — The wide metal barn on the Utah alfalfa farm owned by Russell and Diane Jones will host their youngest son’s wedding next month. By September, they hope the structure will be full of marijuana plants. The Joneses are fourth-generation farmers, members of The Church of Jesus […]
