SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brigham Young University has vowed to fight to keep its police department, as the state plans to decertify the force. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the private university on Friday filed a formal appeal with the Utah Department of Public Safety, calling the state’s efforts an “extreme […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The agency responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians has received funding to continue planning for and building facilities in New Mexico and Arizona. The Gallup Independent reports that Indian Health Service Navajo Area spokeswoman Jenny Notah said Thursday that Congress appropriated about $218 million […]
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The day after Thanksgiving in 2009, James Kahler went to the home of his estranged wife’s grandmother, where he shot the two women, along with his two teenage daughters. No one — not even Kahler’s attorneys — disputes that he killed the four relatives. Instead, his […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah landlords say an increasing number of renters are claiming their pets are emotional support animals and not subject to pet deposits and pet rents. Landlords are struggling to determine which renters legitimately need the pets for medical reasons and which renters have fraudulently obtained […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a proposal to ban abortions if the only reason is the fetus has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. But the legislation signed Friday will only go into effect if a similar law is upheld in court elsewhere, a provision […]
BLUFFDALE, Utah (AP) — The remains of a World War II pilot have been laid to rest in his home state of Utah after being returned from Germany. The Salt Lake City Tribune reported that the burial for Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Lynn W. Hadfield came 74 years to the day […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah gun rights advocate can keep his bump stock, at least for now, as he sues over the Trump administration’s ban on the attachment that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns. The temporary stay handed down Thursday by the U.S. 10th Circuit […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Navajo Nation company has ended its bid to buy a coal-fired power plant on the reservation and the mine that feeds it. The decision Friday means the Navajo Generating Station and the Kayenta Mine will close this year, ending decades of operation in northeastern Arizona. […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A suspect in a 2012 California killing is in jail following a fraudulent $3 purchase. Cody Tripp, 33, was booked Wednesday in the Weber County Jail in Ogden, Utah, and is being held without bail, the Standard-Examiner reported on Thursday. Tripp is the main suspect in the killing […]
