PROVO, Utah (AP) — Shoppers in Utah County soon will begin paying an extra penny for every $4 spent on taxable goods, excluding food, starting April 1. The Utah County Commission on Tuesday voted to implement the fourth-quarter cent sales tax to fund roads and transit. The tax is expected […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An investigation into missed warning signs before the death of a University of Utah student shot by a man she briefly dated shows campus police are overtaxed and need more training in handling domestic violence cases, authorities said Wednesday. The probe also found that friends […]
OGDEN, Utah-Wednesday, six Weber State football players were named to the HERO Sports FCS All-American team. These players include first-team members, senior linebacker LeGrand Toia and senior special teams player Brady May. Making the second team were senior offensive lineman Iosua Opeta and sophomore return specialist Rashid Shaheed. The third […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Almost 2.5 million people have moved to Florida since the beginning of the decade. Figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau show Florida had 21.3 million residents, as of last July. The Sunshine State has grown by 13.3 percent in the last eight years, and […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A former Weber County Sheriff’s Office evidence technician who stole and ate methamphetamine while working in the evidence locker faces having to serve a year in jail. Candice Follum was sentenced Tuesday under a plea agreement that requires that the 48-year-old serve half her time behind […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, hoping to keep numbers low for the contagious liver disease. It’s the 15th state to declare an outbreak. Dr. Joe Kanter says Louisiana’s 25 outbreak cases are far fewer than in nearby states including Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. He says officials hope […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a story Dec. 13 about the Colorado River, The Associated Press erroneously reported the river’s mouth. The river empties into the Gulf of California, not the Gulf of Mexico. A corrected version of the story is below: Southwestern US states get Jan. 31 deadline for […]
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — The FBI has released the identity of a man who fatally shot himself and three other people and critically wounded a fifth person at a home in northwestern New Mexico last month. The FBI said Tuesday that the shooter in the Nov. 13 incident at a […]
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — Pleasant Grove police say a 12-year-old boy is dead after being struck by a large truck Monday night. Police say the boy was in a crosswalk where the truck’s driver apparently didn’t see him as he made a right-hand turn on a red light. According […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A Tonalea man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for assaulting a Navajo Nation police officer. Federal prosecutors say 30-year-old Randell William Lane got a 26-month prison term Monday. He also was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to three years […]
