ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Federal officials and environmentalists are joining efforts to boost protection for a rare poppy that is only found in southern Utah. The Spectrum & Daily News reports that the U.S. forest Service, Utah Valley University and The Nature Conservancy are examining how to manage the dwarf bear-poppy […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say another man has admitted to causing a deadly hit-and-run in South Salt Lake. KUTV reports that prosecutors expect to file charges Monday against 56-year-old Richard Bice, who is accused of initially lying about his involvement. They will also drop charges against 41-year-old Ryan Kidrick in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities are searching for a Saratoga Springs man suspected of shooting a man over a business dispute. Saratoga Springs police were searching Monday morning for 36-year-old Ryan Holladay. Investigators say Holladay got into a business disagreement Sunday night with another man in Bluffdale. Holladay then […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say a West Valley City man has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison for robbing banks in Ogden and North Salt Lake. They say 42-year-old Sean Thomas Moore pleaded guilty in February to one count of bank robbery by force […]
Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University medical student said the experience was a revelation. “It’s pretty empowering to know this is something you can detect with a gloved […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Wildlife officials have released into a northern Utah reservoir thousands of tiger muskie fish, a hybrid predator that’s popular with anglers and helps keep other species in check. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources released 28,000 of the fish at Pineview Reservoir on May 2, the […]
BERLIN (AP) — Berliners on Sunday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin in the post-World War II years with a big party at the former Tempelhof airport in the German capital. Among the invited guests of honor was 98-year-old U.S. pilot […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been ordered to identify any women who accused the former head of a missionary training center of sexual misconduct and all women who were at the facility the same time as a woman suing the church. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An eastern Utah economic development group has selected an investment firm for a public-private partnership to finance and build a proposed rail line to provide freight service that would connect the Uintah Basin oil reserves with distant markets. The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition said Friday that its […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 59-year-old Utah man has admitted shooting at power substations, including one where damage knocked out power to two counties. Stephen Plato McRae of Escalante pleaded guilty Friday to one count of destruction of an energy facility in a deal with prosecutors who dropped other […]
