SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The father of one of two 13-year-old Utah boys who fatally overdosed on a new synthetic opioid drug is suing a school district and the police department, saying officials knew the teen’s friends had been experimenting with the drug but didn’t communicate the danger to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City authorities say stabbings at a convenience store have left a clerk is dead and another man critically injured. KSL-TV reports that the stabbings occurred during an altercation at a Maverik store early Wednesday morning. Lt. Dave Cracroft said two people were taken into custody […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Police say an American Fork woman tried to hide drugs inside cards and mail them to her jailed boyfriend. The Daily Herald reports authorities say a jail clerk discovered as many as 90 doses of suboxone strips in the glue strips of envelopes mailed with three letters. Authorities […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — Several environmental groups are working together to shut down unauthorized trails and formalize new ones near a wildlife area in northern Utah. The Daily Herald reports dozens of volunteers gathered on June 29 at the Timpanogos Wildlife Management Area in Orem to begin rehabilitating parts that have become […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The body of an Army sergeant from Utah who died in Afghanistan has arrived back to the United States. A casket carrying the body of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins arrived Tuesday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. An Army team […]
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s has been sentenced to at least six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a child. Judge Roger Griffin recommended the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man arrested in the death of a Utah college student whose charred remains were found in his backyard was banned from the campus of Utah State University in 2012, according to documents released on Tuesday. The school took the step after Ayoola A. Ajayi […]
CORTEZ, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado-based company is asking for permission to ship radioactive material from eastern Europe to a uranium mill in Utah. The Cortez Journal reported Monday that Energy Fuels Resources submitted an application in April to the Utah Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control to allow the White […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The Weber County jail will stop charging inmates $10 a day to help pay the cost of incarcerating them. The Standard-Examiner reports the practice will end Aug. 1. Officials say none of the current debts will be forgiven. Corrections spokesman Lt. Joshua Marigoni says the jail wants to […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man is facing charges in connection with a church fire in Ogden that authorities say caused around $300,000 in damage. KSL-TV in Salt Lake City reports Michael Donovan Averett was charged with arson Monday following an investigation into vandalism at The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
