SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court will hear arguments Monday over the constitutionality of a struck-down Kansas statute that had required people to provide documents proving their U.S. citizenship before they could register to vote. In a case with national implications for voting rights, Kansas faces an […]
ANETH, Utah (AP) — After three unsuccessful days of ground and water searches, authorities said Sunday they were temporarily suspending the search for a 4-year-old girl missing since last week on the Utah portion of the Navajo Nation. In a statement, the Navajo Police Department said a pause in the […]
ANETH, Utah (AP) — Search and rescue crews continue to scour the Utah portion of the Navajo Nation for a 3-year-old girl missing since missing since Thursday in San Juan County. The Navajo Nation Police Department says more than 100 volunteers searched Saturday for Andanndine Jones on foot along 8 […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — John Little can hardly go a week without a reminder that he and other Native Americans often are viewed as relics of the past: the Indian maiden on the butter container at the grocery store, the kids’ teepees sold at popular retailers and the sports fans […]
ANETH, Utah (AP) — A search continued Saturday along the San Juan River on the Utah portion of the Navajo Nation for a 3-year-old girl missing since late Thursday. The Navajo Nation Police Department said in a statement on Facebook that over 100 volunteers searched for Andanndine Jones on foot […]
BARRON, Wis. (AP) — Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart says it’s OK for residents of a northwestern Wisconsin town to “smile, but don’t stare” if they bump into a 13-year-old local girl recovering from the killings of her parents and her own abduction. Smart spoke to about 1,300 people Friday night […]
CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a 33-year-old University of Iowa graduate student found dead at Canyonlands National Park in southern Utah apparently fell 500 feet (152.4 meters) from an overlook. The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office said Jonathan Hogue’s body was found Friday at the base over […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Now that former San Juan County commissioner Phil Lyman is getting a government stipend as a state lawmaker, federal prosecutors want him to speed up paying off the $96,000 in damage caused by an illegal ATV protest ride he led through a pristine southeastern canyon […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Utah prosecutors say two Ogden police officers had justification to fatally shoot a man who charged at them with a rock last year. The Standard-Examiner reports that Weber County Attorney Christopher Allred has determined that officers Brandon Sevenski and Tyson Embley acted within their rights when they shot […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State agriculture officials have ordered the quarantine or a horse in southern Nevada that tested positive for an equine herpes virus after the state high school rodeo last month in Pahrump. The Nevada Department of Agriculture said Friday there is no public health risk. But it’s […]
