SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah businessman is challenging Salt Lake City mayor Jackie Biskupski in hopes of becoming the capital’s first ethnic-minority leader. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Democrat David Ibarra made the announcement Tuesday backed by Salt Lake County Attorney Sim Gill and former mayor Rocky Anderson. Ibarra’s father […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A rash of American combat deaths in Afghanistan is putting a spotlight on a stalemated 17-year war that is testing President Donald Trump’s commitment to pursuing peace with the Taliban. Trump has acknowledged that his original instinct was to withdraw from Afghanistan, but last week he suggested […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Another software company based in the San Francisco Bay Area has announced plans to move its headquarters to Reno, Nevada. The Reno-Gazette Journal reports rfXcel plans to hire about 80 people over the next two years for its new base in Reno and eventually ramp up to 200 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah police say they have charged two women in the 2009 death of a Native American spiritual leader after one of the women’s story about the events recently changed. Authorities announced the charges in the cold case on Tuesday, nearly 10 years after the body […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who was a passenger in a car that fatally rammed a police officer in a Salt Lake City suburb has been arrested on suspicion of murder, burglary and other charges, police said. As suspect Jeffrey Don Black, 43, was being led away in […]
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. (AP) — In a story Nov. 22 about recreational marijuana sales in West Wendover, Nev., The Associated Press reported erroneously that West Wendover City Councilwoman Kathy Durham made the request to reintroduce a measure allowing the sales. Councilwoman Jasie Holm made the request. A corrected version of […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — A review is underway to determine if a potentially offensive mascot at a Utah high school should remain. The Spectrum reports Iron County school officials are considering changing Cedar High School’s Redmen mascot. The Iron County School District said in a statement that the Redmen moniker was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints missionary from Nevada serving in South Africa has died after he collapsed while exercising. The Salt Lake City-based faith said in a news release Tuesday that 19-year-old Zane Lamping died Monday at hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The world’s largest pork company is teaming up with a major energy company to turn pig manure into renewable natural gas. Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy announced a joint venture partnership Tuesday to trap methane from hog waste and convert it into power for heating homes […]
SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) — A man who was a passenger in a car that fatally rammed a police officer in a Salt Lake City suburb has been arrested on suspicion of murder, burglary and other charges. South Salt Lake police said 43-year-old Jeffrey Don Black of Taylorsville was […]
