(Logan, UT) — Bail is denied for the 16-year-old boy accused of shooting 14-year-old Deserae Turner. A judge today ruled Colter Danny Peterson is still enough of a public risk that he should not be released into his parents’ custody. Prosecutors say he shot Turner in the back of the […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah County is moving to lift a 1950s-era ban on outhouses. The Daily Herald in Provo reports that the Utah County Board of Health voted Monday to allow the outdoor bathrooms, provided that builders put up a $2,500 bond to guarantee they will be maintained. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a human skull has been found at the former home of a woman who disappeared nearly 30 years ago. Spanish Fork police said Monday that the remains were buried under a cellar in the backyard where Peggy Sue Case once lived. She was […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz thinks he knows why President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey. Chaffetz said during an interview in Salt Lake City yesterday that Comey’s behavior as director was unusual. Chaffetz added that Comey had frustrated Republicans, Democrats and the President with his […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah prison officials are scrambling to reform the state’s sex-offender treatment program after an audit found serious flaws in the system that treats nearly a third of the state’s prison population. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that authorities told lawmakers they’re developing new targeted programs […]
(Cedar City, UT) – A man remains behind bars in Iron County today following his arrest on accusations he got a 13-year-old girl pregnant. Pedro Gaspar-Martin is charged with rape and sodomy on a child with bail set for the 18-year-old at 100-thousand-dollars. The Spectrum reports the now 14-year-old girl told […]
(Bears Ears National Monument, UT) – The Bureau of Land Management is reporting a more than two-week-old fire at a remote guard station. BLM reports the guard station burned in the Sweet Alice Springs area in Bears Ears sometime before Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s visit earlier this month. The […]
(Orem, UT) – Two children are trying to teach adults the rules about making left-hand turns at Utah intersections. Madi and Aubrey Yablonovsky of Orem tell the “Salt Lake Tribune” they began studying the problem after their dad got a ticket for moving into the wrong lane after making a turn. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Mormon church is celebrating its first temple open in France. The LDS church yesterday dedicated the new temple in Paris, designed to blend in with the architectural grandeur of its French surroundings. It sits on two acres in the community of Le Chesnay, not […]
