SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Highway Patrol says a trooper successfully intercepted a wrong-way driver on a Salt Lake City-area freeway early Friday morning. The Highway Patrol says the trooper had a minor injury and that using the interception technique disabled his patrol car while stopping the other […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A population study of polar bears in the Chukchi (chuk-CHEE) Sea between Alaska and Russia finds that the population is thriving for now despite a loss of sea ice because of climate change. Lead author Eric Regehr (rehg-EER) of the University of Washington says the study […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A pair of pro-marijuana groups in Utah are threatening to sue over a special session scheduled for next month when a medical marijuana ballot measure passed by voters will be revised as part of a compromise reached before the election. The groups allege in a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a lawsuit involving a contested U.S. House race in Utah (all times local): 3:50 p.m. A Utah judge has reserved a decision on a lawsuit in a tight House race filed by a Republican incumbent who is seeking to halt vote counting […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A recent study says about 85 percent of all firearm deaths from 2006 to 2015 in Utah were the result of suicide. The study, conducted by Harvard researchers and overseen by the Utah Department of Human Services, was presented to lawmakers Wednesday. The report says […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — Three schools in Cedar City were put on lockdown after a driver reported seeing a man carrying an assault rifle in the area, but responding police quickly found a man fitting the description but carrying a weed whacker. The Spectrum reports that the man was doing yard […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal jury has convicted an Arizona man for the first-degree murder of his girlfriend, and of other violent crimes including using a machete to assault two Navajo Nation police officers who arrived to investigate the killing. Cosme Lopez, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The remains of a Utah mayor killed while serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan have been returned to his home state. North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor’s body was transported from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to a National Guard base in Salt Lake […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Newly unsealed court documents show a Utah dump truck driver with a history of driving drunk had a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit at the time of last month’s crash that killed six people in another vehicle. Jamie Don McKenzie of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Mia Love sued Wednesday to halt vote counting in the Utah race where she is narrowly trailing her Democratic challenger. Love’s campaign said in a lawsuit Salt Lake County clerk isn’t allowing poll-watchers to challenge findings during the verification process for mail-in […]
