SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teacher put on administrative leave for making a 9-year-old Catholic student wash off the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead is apologizing. Fourth-grade teacher Moana Patterson said Monday that she hopes everyone can move forward and build understanding together. Patterson was surrounded by […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A legislative proposal inspired by the shooting death of a University of Utah student that would have held gun owners civilly liable if they lend out a firearm used in a crime has hit another roadblock. The house judiciary committee voted unanimously Monday not to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah postal worker is accused of keeping hundreds of parcels for himself. KSL-TV in Salt Lake City reported Monday that 34-year-old Hector Armando Cortes was arrested late last week for investigation of felony mail theft. The U.S. Postal Service and law enforcement spent seven months looking […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A bill that calls for Utah’s required, semester-long high school financial and economic literacy course to include units on socialism and communism has won final passage in the state Senate. The Deseret News reports the bill passed Friday after its Senate floor sponsor, Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods […]
MURRAY, Utah (AP) — Police in Murray are investigating after they say a homeowner shot and killed an intruder. KUTV in Salt Lake City reports the shooting occurred Sunday shortly after 7 p.m. According to investigators, the male intruder entered and was shot by the male homeowner. Murray police spokesman Kenny Bass […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Box Elder County sheriff’s officials say a man accused of fatally stabbing his wife has been released from the hospital and booked into jail without bond. They say 39-year-old Jose Gutierrez-Torres of Tremonton had been in the hospital since March 3 after he allegedly tried […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Ogden officials are bracing for an influx of homeless people later this year when a major shelter in Salt Lake City is scheduled to close. The Road Home shelter in Salt Lake City that holds up to 1,000 people will be closing down and three new […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — If you ever wished to gaze at a stomping, snorting, neighing panorama of Western heritage from your living-room window, now could be your chance. A classic image of the American West — wild horses stampeding across the landscape — not only has endured through the years […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a man who was the subject of police pursuits in southwestern Utah was found dead four days later, killed in a motorcycle crash in nearby northwestern Arizona. The Deseret News reports 43-year-old Joseph Gary Scelza was found dead Wednesday near the Virgin River after the […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday met with the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the first-such meeting of its kind, on the eve of the dedication of the church’s huge new temple in Rome. The Vatican offered no details of Francis’ audience with […]
