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 […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Navajo Nation has dropped a request that threatened to delay Arizona’s certification of general election ballots because of alleged signature deficiencies. The tribe filed a federal lawsuit last week that sought emergency relief for more than 100 Navajos who either weren’t able to address mismatched signatures […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal watchdog has cleared Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of wrongdoing following a complaint that he redrew the boundaries of a national monument in Utah to benefit a former state lawmaker and political ally. The Interior Department’s office of inspector general says it found no evidence that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a Utah woman shot and killed her ex-husband’s girlfriend in front of the former couple’s children. Authorities say 32-year-old Chelsea Watrous Cook came to her former husband’s suburban Salt Lake City apartment to deliver cold medicine to one of their 3-year-old twins Sunday […]
