SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers are working to find out more about deaths in Utah’s jails after a series of inmate deaths last year. Republican Sen. Todd Weiler’s proposal requires jails and prisons to submit annual reports on jail deaths, how they treat inmates who are addicted to […]
(Iron County, UT) — The leader of a doomsday cult is pleading guilty to child rape and child abuse charges. Samuel Shaffer faces at least 25 years in prison after agreeing to the plea deal in Iron County Wednesday. Child kidnapping and additional abuse counts were dropped in the agreement […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Those who study Utah’s snowpack say the recent winter storm has done little to help improve the state’s water supply. Hydrologists with the National Weather Service say the snowpack increased about three-percent from snowfall on Sunday and Monday. Utah reservoirs are currently at about 80-percent […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new task force created to attempt to slow a troubling rise of teen suicides in Utah recommended Tuesday that officials ratchet up public messaging to implore gun-owing parents to keep firearms locked up. That was part of a series of recommendations unveiled by a […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A Utah man involved in an officer-involved shooting on Christmas Eve has pleaded not guilty. The Spectrum reports that 38-year-old Benjamin Dee Wilcken’s attorney entered the plea on Tuesday. Wilcken is charged with second-degree assault against law enforcement, second-degree terroristic threats and third-degree possession of […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The owner of a Utah gun store says he has taken down a sign with an advertisement for an assault rifle after a number of complaints from what he calls “anti-gun people.” Darin Kendall, operations manager for Impact Guns in Ogden, says the ad for the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah House has voted to repeal the statewide sales tax on food and raise the rate slightly on other purchases. The Deseret News reports lawmakers sent the measure to the Senate Tuesday on a vote of 42-27. It would remove the 1.75 percent tax […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican Speaker of the House is backing an effort to repeal the death penalty in the state three years after lawmakers voted to reinstate the use of the firing squad as a backup execution method. House Speaker Greg Hughes and Republican Rep. Gage Froerer […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Outspoken Utah Democrat Jim Dabakis says he won’t run for re-election this year. The Salt Lake City state senator said in a statement Tuesday he’s stepping down after six years because he believes elected officials should serve and then make way for others. The 64-year-old […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah man accused of encouraging a high school friend to hang herself and filming the act has been found mentally competent to stand trial. The Daily Herald newspaper in Provo reports the judge’s decision came Tuesday in the case of 18-year-old Tyerell Przybycien (pro-BISH-ian). Prosecutors […]
