SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s unemployment rate for November remained unchanged at 3.2 percent compared with October, with approximately 50,000 residents unemployed and looking for work. The Department of Workforce Service said Friday the nonfarm payroll for November grew by 2.9 percent, adding 43,000 jobs to the state’s economy […]
HEBER CITY, Utah-Thursday, per the official Facebook account of the Wasatch School District, a Wasatch High School science teacher was awarded the prestigious Kati Fischer Teacher Award. This was awarded to Mr. Scott Ward by the Wasatch Education Foundation. Among all of his peers at Wasatch High School, Ward received […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker is proposing a measure that would hold gun owners liable if they lend out a firearm that’s used in a crime. Democratic state Rep.-elect Andrew Stoddard is calling the measure “Lauren’s Law,” named after the 21-year-old University of Utah student who was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Female missionaries with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints worldwide now have the option to wear dress slacks, the church announced Thursday. Members of the Missionary Executive Council said the change takes effect immediately and is primarily motivated by safety concerns. Women in […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finds that funding levels for Native American tribes are woefully inadequate despite the federal government’s responsibility to provide for education, public safety, health care and other services under treaties, laws and other acts. The report made […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge reduced the sentence of a Utah businessman after the man tearfully apologized for his “foolish” and “selfish” actions that caused the demise of his multimillion-dollar internet business and landed him behind bars. A jury convicted Jeremy Johnson in 2016 of eight counts of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Many Utah couples are celebrating their fifth anniversary this month and looking back on their rush to wed after a federal judge had become the first in the country to strike down a state ban on gay marriage. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An investigation into the death of a University of Utah student shot by a man she briefly dated found her friends had reported his controlling behavior and interest in getting her a gun nearly a month before the shooting, but that warning never made it […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah couple used waterboarding as punishment for their 9-year-old daughter after she got out of bed to get a cup of water, prosecutors said in charges filed Wednesday. They took her into a bathroom with the cup, then bound her hands, covered her face […]
Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would criminalize international doping conspiracies, the likes of which Russia pursued during the Sochi Olympics in 2014. The measure is named after Grigory Rodchenkov, the Moscow lab director who blew the whistle on Russian cheating. It is similar to a bill introduced […]
