SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A lawsuit challenging Utah laws restricting talk about homosexuality in schools will remain on hold while LGBT-rights groups and state officials negotiate a settlement. The Deseret News reports U.S. District Judge Dee Benson in Salt Lake City granted a stay in the case, which was […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Several University of Utah faculty members are expressing concern after the abrupt vacating of the role of Huntsman Cancer Institute director by Mary Beckerle. U officials distributed an email yesterday saying she was no longer CEO after eleven years in position. Institute directors and the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A University of Utah researcher is getting credit for helping discover a species of worm that grows up to five feet long. Medicinal chemist Margo Haygood was part of a team of international scientists that worked together to find what’s called a Giant Shipworm in […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — A woman is recovering from an ankle injury after search and rescue crews plucked her from Angels Landing in Zion National Park. Saint George News Reports the woman was rescued by crews about five hours after the call came in on Sunday afternoon. She was […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury has resumed deliberations in the trial of six men who had assault-style weapons during a standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014. Jurors spent a full day at work Monday before sending questions to […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a 14-year-old boy and a 62-year-old woman missing in Grand Canyon National Park after they were swept down a creek while crossing it in a remote part of the park. Chief Ranger Matt Vandzura of the National Park Service […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman has been arrested after she was identified as the pajama-wearing robber in at least six bank robberies in the Salt Lake City area, including five in less than two hours on Saturday morning, police said Monday. Nannette Louise Perkins, 40, was arrested […]
MIDVALE, Utah (AP) — A bullet fired through an apartment wall narrowly missed a Utah woman’s head while she was sleeping. The Salt Lake Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/2oG7ziT ) Sunday that the bullet struck the 31-year-old woman in the tip of her finger early Sunday. The Unified Police Department says she […]
KEMMERER, Wyo. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing a Utah train worker in Wyoming. Dereck James Harrison entered his plea Monday during his arraignment in District Court in Kemmerer. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2oFRacD) that Harrison pleaded guilty to first-degree murder while perpetrating […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota lawmaker frustrated with what he views as inaction over a secretive polygamous sect’s outpost in his district wants legislators to look into the compound, including why no South Dakota birth or death records have been filed from there over the last decade. Rep. […]
